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Editorial • IT’S A SAD DAY FOR US HERE AT BSH ‘COS ONE OF THE TEAM… NO, ONE OF THE FAMILY, IS LEAVING US THIS ISSUE – OUR GARETH, OUR RATHER WONDERFUL DESIGNER.

INTO THE VALLEY • YORKSHIRE MAG HAVE GOT A VERY, VERY BIG PROBLEM…

A65! iT’s nowhERE nEAR LEEDS… • THE A65 IS AMAJOR ROAD INENGLAND THAT RUNS NORTH-WEST FROM LEEDS IN WEST YORKSHIRE, PASSING THROUGH KIRKSTALL, HORSFORTH, YEADON, GUISELEY, ILKLEY, AND SKIPTON, RUNNING WEST OFSETTLE, INGLETON, AND KIRKBY LONSDALE, BEFORE TERMINATING AT KENDAL IN CUMBRIA.

BEAKY’S HARLEY BOOT FAIR • AS MUCH AS WE DON’T LIKE TO THINK OF THERE BEING A RIDING ‘SEASON’, OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS BEAKY’S HARLEY BOOT FAIR HAS, FOR MANY, BECOME THE START OF THE MAIN RIDING, AND EVENT, SEASON – A GOOD PLACE TO MEET FOLK YOU HAVEN’T SEEN OVER WHAT SEEMS AN ETERNITY, AND ALSO RUMMAGE FOR TRINKETS IN THE AUTOJUMBLE.

VANTAGE VELOCITY • A COUPLE OF ISSUES AGO, IN THE FEATUREONTHE ROUGH CRAFTS ‘SOVEREIGN RAVEN’ SOFTA IL H-D, I MENTIONED THATTHE BIKES BUILTBYWINSTON YEHANDTHERCCREW OVERINTAIWAN’REALWAY S EXQUISITELY THOUGHTOUT, EXQUISITELY MADE, AND VERY, VERYBLACK. THIS’S ANOTHER OF THEIR BIKES, BASED THISTIME ON A SPORTSTER, AND IT IS, INDEED, EXQUISITELY THOUGHT-OUT, EXQUISITELY MADE, AND VERY, VERY BLACK.

NORTH MANCHESTER CUSTOM & CLASSIC BIKE SHOW • COME SIT WITH ME, GOOD READER, AND I SHALL TELL YOU OF MOTORCYCLES, RAUCOUS MUSIC TO OFFEND THE GODS, AND THE REAR ENDS OF RAMS.

RIP IAN • THIS IS A SAD TALE. AT STORMIN’ THE CASTLE LAST YEAR IAN BALLANTYNE COLLECTED THREE TROPHIES FOR A BIKE HE’D BUILT WITH HIS MATES, FROM THE SEAT OF HIS WHEELCHAIR. SADLY, HE PASSED AWAY JUST A FEW DAYS LATER – A TESTAMENT TO HIS DETERMINATION TO GET HIS BIKE INTO THE CUSTOM SHOW.

HA KENT FAMILY YARD PARTY • ANOTHER SCORCHING SUMMER’S DAY FOR THIS FRIENDLY LITTLE SHOW, AND A NAME CHANGE THAT EMPHASISES ‘FAMILY’, BETTER REFLECTING THE ATMOSPHERE OF THE DAY AS INCLUSIVE FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY AND, HOPEFULLY, ENCOURAGING YOUNGSTERS TO APPRECIATE SOME GREAT CUSTOM BIKES.

STREETFIGHTER ON STEROIDS! • IT’S FUNNY HOW PEOPLE’S PERCEPTIONS CHANGE OVER THE YEARS, ISN’T IT? I MEAN, THE TERM ‘STREETFIGHTER’, SPECIFICALLY RELATING TO A BIG JAPANESE FOUR-CYLINDER MOTOR IN A HARDTAIL FRAME, WAS COINED IN THIS ‘ERE MAGAZINE BACK IN 1987, APPLIED BY THE VENERABLE STU GARLAND TO PAUL FROM THE HA’S XS1100 CHOP WITH ITS DUAL TWIN-CHOKE WEBER CARBS, AND BELT REAR DRIVE CONVERSION IN PLACE OF THE POWER-SAPPING ORIGINAL SHAFT.

PML MOTORCYCLES’ BIKE SHOW • IT’S ALWAYS A GOOD THING, ISN’T IT, WHEN SOMEONE WHO’S ABSOLUTELY DEDICATED, THROUGH AND THROUGH, TO SOMETHING DOES WELL IN THEIR FIELD, ISN’T IT? PML MOTORCYCLES NEAR NORWICH IS JUST SUCH A CASE.

MEDAZA WASP • HANDCRAFTED IN IRELAND, DON CRONIN’S LATEST CREATIONLOOKS LIKE THE SORT OF BIKE THATCAPTAIN AMERICA WOULD RIDE… NOT A DANISH POSTMAN.

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SHADOW fROm ACROSS tHe SeA • IT’S VERY FLATTERING, AND ALSO A LITTLE CONCERNING, TOO, WHEN PEOPLE FROM OUTSIDE THESE SCEPTRED ISLES CREDIT US AS THE INSPIRATION FOR THEIR BIKES; FLATTERING ‘COS IT’S NICE TO KNOW THAT WE, AND BY THAT I MEAN ‘WE’ AS IN US LOT ‘ERE AT BSH AND YOU LOT OUT THERE WHO BUILD BIKES, HAVE INFLUENCED BIKERS FROM ACROSS THE WORLD, AND CONCERNING ‘COS THAT IMPLIES RESPONSIBILITY AND NONE OF US ‘ERE’VE EVER BEEN, IN ANY WAY, SHAPE OR FORM, RESPONSIBLE – QUITE THE OPPOSITE IN FACT.

HONDA GOLD WING • A GOLD WING? IN BSH? REALLY? REALLY? HAS THAT SAMSON TRULY LOST THE PLOT THIS TIME?

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