We’ve had a lot of Triumph choppers in BSH over the years, all of them works of automotive art, but not many of them’ve had a supercharger on the engine… Words & pics: Erik Stigsson This bike was built by a guy called Niklas Wall from Skokloster in Sweden and, to be really honest, he’s…
Check out the latest 116-page glossy homage to custom bike builders up and down the land. This special chopper issue features a stunning H-D chop in all its green and gold glory on the cover, while inside you can find out who owns it, what he’s done to it, and why he sometimes wishes he…
Well, that’s it… another summer gone. No sooner had it arrived in a blaze of glory than it’d shot off into the sunset like editor Nik on his latest test bike. But at least it left us with a shedload of memories – frazzled grass, the smell of sweaty leather and hot metal, and the…
Twenty like-minded motorcycle enthusiasts assembled at Bowkers Harley-Davidson in Preston, Lancashire, to take part in Barbersride 2. Included in their number were barbers, manufacturers, designers, bloggers, distributors, photographers, film makers and a comedian from Blackpool. Barbersride’s collective aim was to ride well over 1,000 miles and raise money for Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in the…
Bike building, as I’m sure you know, can be thrilling, educating, rewarding. It can also be a massive pain in the arse… Words & pics: Ian Shipley There comes a point in a build, especially one that’s fighting you every step of the way, where you have to decide whether to persevere with it, scrap…
There are few more evocative names in the motorcycling world than that of Brough Superior; the legendary marque set up in 1919 by motorcycle racer and world land speed record holder, George Brough. Words & pics: Nik Our George was a bit of a boy; he originally set out in business with his father, motorcycle…
Who says that motorcyclists hardly do any miles nowadays? And which plum suggested the average mileage for bikers in the UK was so low because Harley riders only go out on sunny Sunday mornings to local pubs? Words and pics: Dave Manning Owned by Mev Carter, this is one Harley that does miles – lots…
Well, it all started when I was in hospital delirious with fever… Words: Luke, Smiley Monkey’s Custom Cycles Pics: Nik I got a phone call from Jim (yes, the Jim, the other half of Smiley Monkey’s Custom Cycles) “Oi, I’ve just ’ad an American bloke up Revved Up and he’s followed me back to the…
To the uninitiated, even the latest model in the development of Harley-Davidson’s air-cooled powerplant looks like it could’ve been built at any point within the last 70 years or so, given the basic, unchanging design of the 45-degree vee twin. Words: Dave Manning Pics: Simon Everett Unless you’re enough of an anorak to be able…
By Rick Hulse I’ve always been a bit of a sun-worshipper, me. Not the ‘down on my knees praying to the mighty Sun God’ sort of sun-worshipper – that, to my mind, would be as silly as worshipping any other sort of ‘god’. Nor do I mean the ‘lying on a deckchair trying to darken…
