The Kustom Kulture Blastoff 10th anniversary festival kicks off in style on 31st August at Lincolnshire Showground. It’s a weekend packed full of eye-popping sights, glamour, colour and sheer visual delights to shock and inspire, and is the place to be to see, share and enjoy subcultures from rolling art
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Does anyone know where this bike is? Dave Friend is looking to find his old lowrider/dragbike called ‘The Howling’ which was featured in BSH in the ’90s. This picture is from the time when he was racing it. The registration is Q999 FVT and it’s SORN’d. Dave says people remember
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A vintage Ariel motorcycle – a make once built in Selly Oak, Birmingham – will recreate a 1929 publicity stunt when a similar bike, supported on wooden floats, powered its way across the Channel and back. The event brings together the Pershore Plum Festival and the Ariel Owners’ Motor Cycle
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Some people’s design criteria are really easy – Richy wanted his next chop to have black spoked wheels, and a ‘beep-beep’-style squeezy bulb horn. The rest of the design was up to me… Words: Ger Conlon Pictures: Ian Shipley This is the second fancy chop I’ve built for him (the
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Juha ‘Raiza’ Raitio from Turku, Finland, works at a friend’s custom bike shop, but often goes there in the middle of the night to work on his personal projects undisturbed. No wonder he usually creates half a dozen new bikes every year! Words: Charley Charles Pictures: Siwer Ohlsson Some people
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Cast your minds back to last summer, and the issue of Back Street Heroes in which we ran a bike built by the father and son team of Norman and Louie Hartley of Deathgrip Custom Cycles – the stunning purple Panhead that they took to Born Free in California. Words:
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In my voluntary role as chairman of the National Association for Bikers with a Disability (NABD), and in my paid job as an expert witness for the High Court, I spend quite a lot of my time dealing with bikers who’ve had serious life-changing injuries. by Rick Hulse Whether their
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Too many stunning custom bikes seem to just disappear off the face of the planet as soon as they’ve been featured – bikes that you’d give your eye teeth (and any other ones required too) to own seem to vanish without trace after having their few minutes in the sun.
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Multiple world speed record holder Zef Eisenberg will front a brand-new TV show called Speed Freaks, which will make its debut on Wednesday 7th August on ITV4 at 9pm. The first six-part TV series will be broadcast weekly and will follow daredevil Zef Eisenberg as he scours the nation to
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