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 WELCOME TO THE NEW ISSUE OF BSH

FUNKY EXPAT… • ONE OF THE REASONS SWEDISH-STYLE CHOPPERS’VE PERHAPS EVOLVED LONGER AND LONGER FORKS AS THE YEARS’VE GONE BY, APART FROM THE FACT, OF COURSE, THAT THEY LOOK AS COOL AS FU… ERR, FLIP, IS THAT OUT THERE THEY HAVE LOTS OF LONG, STRAIGHT ROADS IDEAL FOR RIDING LONG-FORK CHOPPERS; EMPTY, ENDLESS-SEEMING STRETCHES OF WELL-SURFACED BLACKTOP, LINED EITHER SIDE BY DEEP, DARK FOREST, INTERSPERSED WITH SHINING LAKES.

ENGLISH ROSE SISTERHOOD’S BIG 30TH(+2) • 30’s AN IMPRESSIVE AGE FOR ANY CLUB, AND THE GIRLS OF THE ENGLISH ROSE SISTERHOOD’VE WAITED AN EXTRA TWO YEARS, ‘COS O’ COVID, TOCELEBRATETHEIR 30TH ANNIVERSARY IN STYLE.

DORSET NCC’S SHOW • WE ALL KNOW HOW THE BRAIN WANDERS WHEN YOU’RE OUT ON A RIDE, AND THIS CAN OFTEN BE A BLOODY ANNOYING EARWORM. FOR ME, ON THE WAY TO NCC DORSET’S FIRST SHOW IN A GOOD WHILE, WAS ‘GO WEST’ BY, YES, I’M SO EMBARRASSED, THE VILLAGE PEOPLE. IT’S APT, I KNOW, ‘COS I WAS INDEED GOING WEST BUT, OH, THE SHAME OF IT!

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE! • HIGHLANDER – NOW THAT WAS A BLOODY GOOD FILM, WASN’T IT? A COOL LEAD CHARACTER; A GREAT VILLAIN; JUST THE RIGHT ELEMENT OF SPOOKINESS TO THE PLOT; SOME TRULY MEMORABLE LINES; BEAUTIFULLY CHOREOGRAPHED SWORD FIGHTING – WHAT MORE DO YOU NEED? OKAY, SO THE CASTING WAS A BIT ODD, BUT…

KENT CUSTOM BIKE SHOW • THE KENT CUSTOM BIKE SHOW – THERE’S A NAME TO CONJURE WITH, EH?

REJECTS BROTHERHOOD’S DRINK, DROP & DOSS RALLY • IT’S ALWAYS AWKWARD WHEN TWO OF YOUR FAVOURITE EVENTS CLASH ON THE SAME DAY, ESPECIALLY IF THEY’RE OVER 130 MILES APART.

SLEEPING BEAUTY AWAKENSI • IT’S ONE OF THE GREAT UNANSWERED QUESTIONS IN LIFE, ISN’T IT – WHERE DO ALL THOSE AMAZING CUSTOM BIKES OF YORE GO?

NCC BUCKS, SEPTEMBER THUNDER • NEWPORT PAGNELL, WHERE NCC BUCKS HOLD THEIR ANNUAL SEPTEMBER THUNDER CUSTOM SHOW, IS JUST, AS I’M SURE YOU KNOW, OUTSIDE MILTON KEYNES – THE CITY INFESTED WITH ROUNDABOUTS, AND SOMEWHERE THAT’S QUITE ENTERTAINING TO CROSS ON A MOTORCYCLE WITH AN 80-YEAR-OLD ENGINE, AND A THREE-SPEED, NON-SYNCHROMESH GEARBOX.

PAST PERFECTION • THOSE OF YOU WITH VERY LONG MEMORIES MAY LOOK AT THIS BIKE AND THINK ‘I KNOW THAT… I’VE SEEN IT BEFORE, I THINK’, AND INDEED YOU HAVE, AND YOU HAVEN’T, BOTH AT THE SAME TIME.

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UXB TRIKE SHOW • AS WE ALL GET OLDER, MORE AND MORE OF US’RE STARTING TO THINK ABOUT TRIKES. TEN-PLUS YEARS AGO, THREE-WHEELED MO’CYCLES (NO, TRIKES – NOT NIKENS) WEREN’T ESPECIALLY COMMON BUT, THESE DAYS, JUST ABOUT EVERY BIKE NIGHT/CUSTOM SHOW/RALLY/WHATEVER HAS A FAIR NUMBER OF ‘EM.

A LIFE IN THE CUSTOM WORLD PART 1 • MOST OF US IN THE CUSTOM WORLD, MESELF INCLUDED, HAVE REACHED A TIME IN OUR LIVES WHEN WE START TO LOOK BACK AT THE PAST WITH SOME FONDNESS – BACK AT WHAT WE DID IN OUR FORMATIVE YEARS, AT THE BIKES WE HAD, THE BIKES OUR MATES HAD, THE PEOPLE WE HUNG AROUND WITH, THE SH*T WE GOT UP TO…

BUILD IT YERSEL' • THIS ISSUE YOU WERE EXPECTING WIRING, WEREN’T YOU? YEAH, WELL, MAYBE NEXT, OKAY?

MR BRIDES' MOTORCYCLE DIARIES • AT THE END OF THE LAST INSTALMENT, THERE WERE A BUNCH OF THINGS BALANCED ON THE FRAME TO SEE HOW IT WAS ALL LOOKING.

I CAN SEE MY HOUSE FROM HERE • THEY SAY ELEPHANTS HAVE AN AWARENESS OF DEATH – NOT IN THE SENSE THEY KNOW THEY’RE GOING TO DIE, BUT IN THAT IF ONE OF THE HERD DIES THE OTHERS UNDERSTAND THEY’RE GONE, AND THEY MOURN.

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