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 bits to build the image…
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 6, at around 4.40pm, when…
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 for myself as a personalised…
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 general public, and their shows…
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 us hairy-arses too cos it’s…
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 printed in the UK in…
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 Devon, BMAD runs over two…
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, a pirate theme for Saturday…
The National Motorcycle Museum has announced the details of its winter raffle – a brand new/old stock 1977 Commando which’s never been run or registered, with just a few ‘push’ miles only! Second prize is a Sealey MC680E electro-hydraulic motorcycle lift with a 680kg load capacity, worth more than £1,500. Third prize is a luxury…
Happy new year! We hope you’re all in the pink, and if you’re not, then you will be when you pick up your copy of February’s BSH! Inside you’ll find the best custom bikes in the land as displayed at Custom Xtreme at the NEC last year, and two very gurlie pink bikes with don’t-mess…
