Royal Enfield have just released pics and info on their latest range of models powered by a new 650cc twin-cylinder. It’s a double overhead cam, four-valve engine that stays with air-cooling (no hidden oil coolers or radiators here!), but it still passes the Euro 4 emissions regs. It has a 270-degree crank, and a balance…
Happy new year! Yes, here we are, just a few days into 2018, and already your pals at BSH are delivering the February issue. Worked our butts off in the run-up to Christmas, we did! It’s packed with stunning bikes, images to drool over, latest news and some hard-hitting opinions too. The latest bike to…
The guest of honour at this year’s Carole Nash Classic Bike Guide Winter Classic at the Newark Showground on 6-7th January will be Michael Rutter, winner of 14 North West 200s, an unequalled eight Macau victories, five Isle of Man TT wins, and multiple BSB Superstock rounds. The show is the perfect opportunity to explore…
Well known for her motorcycle illustration work, our own Louise Limb has been collecting some of her favourite works to put in her very popular calendars for the last eight years. Her Motorcycle Art calendar for 2018 will feature a selection of classic images from her illustration archive and maybe even the odd surprise new…
Rick cheers up gloomy post-holiday January days with memories of his sun-drenched trip to Spain, and offers a few pointers to BSH readers who might like to try the journey this summer! Being the sort of person who likes to plan ahead whenever possible, I did a lot of research into possible points of natural or…
For years I’d been reading magazines and trawling the internet for cafe racers and found that with almost all of them I thought things like “I’d’ve done that like that” or “I wouldn’t’ve done it that way”, and so on and so on. We all do it, don’t we? There comes a time though when…
Back in March this year I was contacted by a good friend who asked if I’d be interested in doing a Grand Moped Tour of southern Spain in October? Of course, the answer was ‘yes’ and so the hunt for a suitable bike to do it on began. Words: Ben Dyer; Pics: Simon Everett I…
In 2010, Donna Kilby, a lifelong biker, was in the unusual position, for her anyway, of being without a bike. As someone who’s totally addicted to them, and made her living breaking Japanese ones for parts, this really would not do. Words and pictures: Lawrence Howes A trader offered her a 1984 Yamaha FJ1100; it had…
Many years ago, Guy bought my much-loved green 1260 Bosworth big-bore EFE chop, writes Lin Jefford. He rode it, loved it, and then sold it. Almost instantly he regretted selling it almost as much as I did, but things have to move on to provide money and space for subsequent projects. He said then that one…
Have you checked out the winners of the 2017 BSH Custom Bike Building Championships yet? If you were at Motorcycle Live at the NEC last month you’ll have seen them in the flesh on the BSH Custom Xtreme stand – but if not, you can get a first glimpse of the victors in the January…
