Back Street Heroes

Back Street Heroes is the UK’s biggest-selling and best custom bike magazine. We cover all styles of custom bikes and the custom biker lifestyle.

EDITORIAL

A TRUE HISTORY OF BSH IN SEVEN BUILDINGS • AND IF YOU THINK SOME OF THIS’S CRAZY, WAIT UNTIL I TELL YOU ABOUT STREETFIGHTERS…

40 YEAR BONNIE • SOMETIME IN THE VERY EARLY 1970s WHEN I WAS SEVEN OR EIGHT YEARS OLD, A GUY ON OUR ESTATE HAD A TRIUMPH CHOPPER. DETAIL-WISE I DON’T REMEMBER MUCH ABOUT IT, EXCEPT THAT I WANTED ONE LIKE IT AS SOON AS I WAS OLD ENOUGH.

MEMORIES: EX-STAFFERS LOOK BACK

MODERN BIKE & SCOOTER MAGAZINES YOU'LL LOVE

35 YEARS ON… • IT’S A STRANGE, AND ACTUALLY VAGUELY DEPRESSING, THING THAT PRETTY MUCH ALL THE BIKES BUILT FOR BSH COMPETITIONS SEEM TO JUST VANISH INTO THIN AIR THE MOMENT THEY’RE HANDED OVER TO THE LUCKY WINNERS OF SAID COMPETITIONS. MOST, BUT NOT ALL…

REASONS TO BE CAREFUL, PART 356.5

DOWN THE BACK O'… • ABOUT EIGHT OR SO YEARS AGO, OUR LAUREN, EX-STAFFER OF THIS PARISH, WAS GIVEN THE UNENVIABLE TASK OF HUNTING DOWN SOMETHING OR OTHER FROM OLD BSH FILES IN A SERIES OF OLD FILING CABINETS. ONE OF THEM WOULDN’T CLOSE PROPERLY, AND SHE FOUND A LOAD OF OLD BLACK AND WHITE PICTURES FROM THE OLDEN DAYS STUFFED DOWN THE BACK OF IT, PUT THEM TO ONE SIDE FOR FUTURE REFERENCE, AND THEN FOUND ‘EM AGAIN A FEW MONTHS AGO, SO WE THOUGHT WE’D BUNG A FEW O’ THEM IN TO TAKE YOU BACK IN TIME TO THOSE HEADY DAYS – NO CAPTIONS, NO EXPLANATIONS, JUST SOME GREAT OLD PICS FROM THE MAGAZINE’S EARLY DAYS.

BSH CUSTOM CHAMPS 2023 • THE BIGGEST CUSTOM SHOW IN THE WORLD!

ROUND SIX AUGUST

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DESTINY CYCLES’ 20th ANNIVERSARY BUILD PLATINUM • THERE CAN’T BE MANY PEOPLE IN THE CUSTOM WORLD NOW WHO HAVEN’T HEARD OF VIC AND LIN JEFFORD, DESTINY CYCLES, OR NOT SEEN A BIKE THEY’VE BUILT ‘COS, FIRSTLY, THEY GET EVERYWHERE THESE DAYS AND, SECONDLY, THEIR BIKES’RE QUITE, QUITE STUNNING.

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LE SEPEY-JAP • LUC RACINE GREW UP IN LE SEPEY, A SMALL SWISS VILLAGE AT THE BOTTOM OF THREE ALPINE PASSES, FAMOUS FOR ITS L’ETIVAZ CHEESE, AND NOT MUCH ELSE. SKIING AND HIKING WERE BIG PARTS OF HIS LIFE, AND HE’D PROBABLY STILL BE THERE TODAY IF HE HADN’T DISCOVERED AN OLD MOTORCYCLE IN HIS NEIGHBOUR’S BARN WHEN HE WAS 12 YEARS OLD.

SPORties 4evA! • I DON’T KNOW IF YOU’VE BEEN TO ANY OF THESE NEW(ISH) VINTAGE CHOPPER EVENTS AS THEY’RE CALLED – THE TRIP OUT, THE HOOK-UP, SOUTH-WEST CHOPPER FEST, ETC.? IF YOU HAVEN’T, WELL, YOU’VE MISSED OUT, I THINK, AND IF YOU HAVE THERE’S A GOOD CHANCE YOU’LL’VE SEEN THE TWO PEOPLE WHO OWN THESE BIKES ‘COS… WELL, THEY’RE QUITE DIFFICULT TO MISS, AREN’T THEY? THE OWNERS AND THE BIKES…

MR BRIDGES MOTORCYCLE DIARIES • I DID MANAGE TO GET SOME THINGS DONE ON THE GT550 SINCE LAST TIME ALTHOUGH, IN THE MAIN, IT AMOUNTED TO MOUNTING THINGS TO THE MOTORCYCLE OR, MORE ACCURATELY, MAKING THE BRACKETS TO MOUNT THINGS TO THE MOTORCYCLE.

M6 NORTHBOUND AN ALMOST TRUE BIOGRAPHY • MIDNIGHT. TIME TO DO THE RETURNS. IF YOU HADN’T BOUGHT ONE OF TODAY’S NEWSPAPERS BY NOW, THEN YOU’D MISSED IT. THEY WERE YESTERDAY’S NEWSPAPERS NOW. EVERYTHING FROM THE TABLOID TODAY IN CRAPPY CARTOON COLOURS TO THE BROADSHEET DAILY TELEGRAPH. PLUS A FEW COPIES OF THE SKETCH FOR JOCKS HEADING HOME.

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