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 • HELLO, AND THANK YOU FOR PURCHASING THIS, THE LATEST ISSUE OF BSH! YOU’RE LOOKING WELL, HAVE YOU DONE SOMETHING WITH YOUR HAIR?

THEN & NOW • FAR BACK IN THE MISTSOF ANCIENT TIME (WELL, THE EARLY 1990sANYWAY), MESELF AND A COUPLE O’ MATESORGANISED OUR FIRSTBIKE SHOW AT THE LATEAND MUCH MISSED BIKER PUB, THE QUEEN’SHEAD IN KIRTLING, JUSTOUTSIDE NEWMARKETIN SUFFOLK.

MONO MOTORCYCLES' CUSTOM & CLASSIC • MONO MOTORCYCLES, IN THE CAPABLE HANDS OF DANIEL AND KATY, HAS, SINCE 2017, BEEN STEADILY GROWING A FAN BASE, CATERING FOR ALL BIKES, FROM CLASSICS TO CUSTOMS, AND ITS EVER-BUSY MONTHLY BREAKFAST MEETS AND CHARITY QUIZZES’RE REALLY POPULAR, SO IT WAS ONLY A MATTER TO TIME BEFORE A CUSTOM AND CLASSIC SHOW WAS NEXT.

HA LIVERPOOL SHOW • BACK IN JULY I RECEIVED AN INVITE TO PHOTOGRAPH A ONE-DAY RIDE-IN BIKE SHOW HOSTED BY LIVERPOOL HA, ASSISTED BY THEIR COMPADRES THE RED DEVILS.

FREESTYLE SPORTY • FOR SOME OUT THERE, BIKES, CUSTOM BIKES, HAVE BECOME A LITTLE BIT… HOW DO I PUT THIS… SAMEY?

MEDUSA MC’S SHOW US YOUR RIDE • I HAD PLANNED TO GO TO CALNE BIKE MEET, BUT PLANS WERE THROWN ASKEW BY MY MUVVA, SO KENT IT WAS, AND MEDUSA MC’S SHOW US YOUR RIDE.

BEUISYARD BIKE SHOW • A GROUP OF US HELD A BIKE SHOW IN AUGUST IN BRUISYARD WHERE WE ALL LIVE TO RAISE MONEY FOR BRAIN TUMOUR RESEARCH, A CHARITY CHOSEN AS CARL LOST HIS BROTHER TO A TUMOUR A FEW YEARS BACK. A FRIEND OF OURS FROM BIRMINGHAM LOST HIS FIGHT A FEW WEEKS AGO, AND MY WIFE’S COUSIN IS BATTLING IT AT PRESENT.

BTW AREA 18’S BIKE & TRIKE SHOW • I DON’T KNOW IF YOU LOT OUT THERE IN THE WILDER WORLD’RE AWARE OF THE EXISTENCE OF THE SILVER BALL CAFÉ ON THE A10 IN HERTFORDSHIRE, JUST SOUTH OF ROYSTON?

LONG-RANGE BOMBER • COO, A CHOPPED Z1300 – YOU DON’T SEE MANY OF THOSE THESE DAYS, DO YOU? I KNOW OF, I THINK, THREE, ALL CHOPPER CLUB: THE LATE, LAMENTED MUZ’S TRIKE (AS FEATURED A FEW ISSUES AGO); JAY FROM NCC NORFOLK’S (WHICH I’M HOPING TO GET PHOTOGRAPHED AS SOON AS THE WEATHER GETS A LITTLE WARMER); AND THIS ONE – WAYNE FROM MERCIA’S, AS HE CALLS IT, LONG-RANGE BOMBER.

TROUBLE • BOBBERS THESE DAYS, AS I’M SURE YOU’VE NOTICED, LIKE A LOT OF MORE MODERN TRENDS IN CUSTOM BIKES THAT’VE COME OVER FROM THE (WHISPER IT) HIPSTER/NEW SKOOL OF CUSTOM BUILDING, TEND TO BE PAINTED IN FAIRLY PLAIN COLOURS – CLASSIC BLACK, VARIOUS SHADES OF MAROON, EVEN BROWN (!?!).

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NCC BERKSHIRE • DILEMMA TIME - BEING A NATIONAL CHOPPER CLUB EVENT, I KNEW THIS’D BE A GOOD SHOW (AND IT’D BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE I’D BEEN TO ONE OF THEIRS), BUT IT WAS ALSO BERKSHIRE SO I ALSO KNEW I’D GET LOST - I DON’T KNOW WHY, BUT I ALWAYS DO IN THAT COUNTY.

BACK ISSUES

PRESCOTT BIKE FEST • THE COTSWOLDS. IT’S DIFFICULT TO SAY THOSE TWO WORDS WITHOUT SUMMONING A MENTAL PICTURE OF GRAND GEORGIAN TOWNS, ROLLING COUNTRYSIDE, AND BUTTER-GOLD COTTAGES GLOWING IN THE SUNSHINE OF AN ENGLISH SUMMER’S DAY.

MUSEUM LIVE! • I’LL ASSUME JUST ABOUT EVERY BSH READER’LL KNOW OF THE NATIONAL MOTORCYCLE MUSEUM IN SOLIHULL, A TRULY ASTOUNDING COLLECTION OF BRITISH MOTORCYCLES, RANGING FROM THE VERY FIRST POWERED TWO-WHEELERS BUILT IN THE UK WELL OVER A HUNDRED YEARS AGO TO MUCH MORE RECENT MODELS SUCH AS THOSE BUILT IN TRIUMPH’S HINCKLEY PLANT IN LEICESTERSHIRE.

BUILD IT YERSEL' PART THREE • WE LEFT THE LATEST BSH PROJECT BUILD LAST TIME PART WAY THROUGH, AND THIS MONTH WE’RE LOOKING AT SITING AND FITTING ELECTRICAL BITS, AND SORTING AND MOUNTING THE TANK.

MR BRIDGES MOTORCYCLE DIARIES VOL. VI, PART III • IN LAST MONTH’S INSTALMENT, I’D MANAGED TO GET THE TUBING ON THE LEFT-HAND SIDE OF...