The term ‘peer pressure’ is described as ‘social pressure by members of one’s peer group to take a certain action, adopt certain values, or otherwise conform in order to be accepted’. Words and pics: Nik IT’S a subtle thing too; most people aren’t really aware that they’re under it, even
Read more
The best of the best… that’s what’s in store in the mad March issue of BSH, out now! We’re just mad for marvellous machinery, and this issue is jam-packed with amazing rides created by some of the finest engineering brains in the country. And you’d be mad to miss what’s
Read more
A while ago I discovered The Trip Out, which transported me right back to the ’70s – it was totally awesome, and I left there influenced and with all kinds of unfeasible plans. Word and pics: Layla Leatham I’ve always loved British bikes, especially choppers, and so I impatiently collected
Read more
The Motorcycle Action Group is offering a £1,000 reward for information leading to the successful prosecution of a car driver who fled the scene of an accident, leaving a motorcyclist seriously injured. Police have revealed that rider Matthew Ramsden was travelling along the B1222 in North Yorkshire on Sunday, January
Read more
Gladstone Motorcycles have unveiled a new model, the SE, following the completion of their initial run of nine No.1 bobbers. Designer Guy Willison describes the SE as “a slightly lazier, earthier version of the No.1. We wanted to build a bike we didn’t have customers for – what I’d build
Read more
Ann Wright’s new book The Wall of Death tells the story of two remarkable families who were wall of death riders and owners from 1929 to the 1960s. They toured all over Britain and Europe, and were seen by British and foreign royalty, Hitler and Mussolini, and thousands of the
Read more
Probably the biggest custom show in the land, the Bike Shed’s Bike Shed London has been confirmed as being on its usual date – the last May bank holiday, or 24-26th May, as it’s called on a calendar. The absolute mecca for the new-skool custom crowd, but increasingly frequented by
Read more
These two new Ogri designs feature the iconic biker’s faithful sidekick Kickstart, and you can choose between ‘Mad Dog’, featuring the crazed canine crashing his bike through a brick wall, and ‘God Made Me Do It’ showing Kickstart brandishing a sledgehammer in front of a destroyed police Volvo. Both are
Read more
Despite a number of rumours, some quite unpleasant, the BMAD Paignton Bike Fest, probably the biggest bike show in the south-west of Britain, and a damn good weekend, is happening again this year! Held on the first bank holiday weekend in May (3-5) down on Paignton seafront in Paignton in
Read more
The National Association for Bikers with a Disability (NABD) has organised its 28th anniversary mega-party, You’ve Been Nabbed, at the Cheshire Showground, near Knutsford, just off junction 19 of the M6, for the weekend of 10th-12th May. There will be 15 bands over two marquees, the usual excellent comedy show,
Read more