Taking on a project bike build that someone else has already started can, but not always, be a little like taking on a rescue animal… no, no, really, it can. Pictures: Nik Stop looking at me like I’ve finally (finally?) gone mad, and let me explain. Taking on a rescue, be it a dog, a cat…
London’s Ace Cafe, which originally opened in 1938, has teamed up with Western Star Records to launch a special double CD album celebrating 80 years of the famous landmark. The Ace Cafe 1938-2018 Album, which will be launched at the cafe at midday on Sunday 8th April, features 46 rock ‘n’ roll tracks with the…
It’s a long-established fact of custom bike building that any given project will take at least twice as long to complete as intended, and cost at least twice as much as the expected budget. Words: Dave M Pics: Simon Everett Tom Russell had a H-D Softail Twin Cam B, the one with the…
I hate writing articles, although I’m reasonably erudite and inventive. I can never really think of any decent opening sentences, or ‘hooks’ as Mr Samson puts it. I could write “this bike began…” or “it all started when…” but it’s all a bit tedious, isn’t it? Words: Jim Ord Pics: Nik Anyway, once…
I don’t know how up you are on the law of triviality? Parkinson’s law of triviality? And the concept that best illustrates it – that of bike-shedding? You’re not? No problem, read on and I’ll explain… Pictures: Simon Everett Back in 1957 a British naval historian named C. Northcote Parkinson came up with an argument…
I fully appreciate that when you are directly involved in something and sit very much in the middle of it, you can fail to see an outsider’s viewpoint, writes Selina Lavender, MAG chairman. However I am absolutely incensed by some of the viewpoints coming back to me from a number of sources in relation to…
Some of this information has been covered in one of my previous articles, but there have been new developments you may be unaware of so give it a good coat of ‘looking-at’, writes Rick Hulse. As of 19th January 2013, trikes became part of the Category A (motorcycle) licensing regulations (previously they came within the…
Never mind the beast from the east – get something warm on and get along to your newsagents for the April issue of Back Street Heroes! Yes, it is only March, and a freezing start to the month at that, but we’ve plenty to warm the hearts of BSH readers, starting with this cracking cover…
A couple of issues ago we told you about Black Kat Kustoms, the brainchild of Tracey and Andrew Dyke from Shropshire, a leatherworking and bike building husband and wife team. Pictures: Simon Everett Despite the fact that they’re generally poorer than shit-house mice (like church-house mice, but with a much poorer diet), they’ve built, on…
It’s been a few years since Sandy, the owner and driving force behind Triumph’ant Motorcycles in Wales, last had a bike in Back Street Heroes. Pictures: Simon Everett Back in the ’90s and early 2000s, bikes he’d built featured quite regularly among these pages, but as his business, specialising in spares for Hinckley Triumphs, flourished…
