There are people out there, strange, twisted people, who believe that colours other than black are eminently suitable for the painting of custom motorcycles. They are, of course, quite, quite wrong… Pictures: Simon Everett For Billy Perks, the owner and builder of this ’ere Ironhead Sportster, there could be only one colour for him to paint…
While many folk think that the opposite ends of the motorcycling world are road racing and custom biking, and that there is absolutely zero crossover, they’re actually deceiving themselves in that opinion, writes Dave M… Aside from the fact that bikes like those ridden by Marc Marquez and Valentino Rossi are among the most extreme…
By Selina Lavender You know that feeling when you’re messing about with a cylinder head or gearbox, and you look at your watch and hours have passed without you even noticing? That’s what 2017 feels like to me. Where did the time go? It’s clear that MAG has had great success working on the mechanics…
This year’s Prescott Bike Fest is set to be the biggest and best yet following the announcement that, for the first time, it has been extended to two days. The popular, family-friendly event will return to the Prescott Speed Hillclimb at Gotherington near Cheltenham (GL52 9RD) on 14-15th April, and will once again boast a…
The National Motorcycle Museum is running a Friends of the Museum Workshop Training Day on Saturday, 24th February. It will be held in the museum’s Compton Suite, and there will be two sessions presented by experts brought in specially for the day, and the museum’s own restoration team will also be on hand to discuss ‘tricks…
Once in a while a motorcycle comes to market that’s guaranteed to create huge excitement – John Lennon’s Honda Monkey-Trail, for sale with H&H Classics, is just such a machine. He used the bike as a fun way of getting around his Tittenhurst Park estate in Surrey, where he lived from 1969 to 1971, and…
Planning a big biking adventure this year? Take Geoff Hill with you for a fascinating look at the world through his observant eyes. Not strictly a biking travel book, although it does have bikes in it, the third of Geoff Hill’s excellent travel books is a kind of a roundup of his many years as…
WE’VE got the best of the best for you this month as we unveil, in all their glory, the five winners of the 2017 BSH custom bike building championships! If you didn’t make it to the finals at Motorcycle Live at the NEC in Birmingham back in November, you can drool over the amazing creations…
The ’70s style may be hot among a lot of bike builders, but friends and colleagues Mike Gustafsson and Jörgen Hases from Sweden claim not to care about what’s fashionable: “We’re so uncool that we’ve built in this style for 15 years by now, and only lately have the younger guys started doing the same…”…
My bike, Mr Hardy, was built to be a ‘Rescue Remedy’. I work in crisis and chaos in social services, and the impact takes its toll at times, but 2016 was the toughest to date – not just through dealing with others’ trauma; I had my own personal share of relentless bombshells and almost broke…
