Pauline Hawkins

  • Great deals at Krazy prices!

    Great deals at Krazy prices!

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    Prices honoured until December 22! See more at the Krazy Horse London dealership at 211-219 Bellegrove Road, Welling DA16 3RQ (tel: 020 8856 4273) and the Suffolk dealership at Empire House, Lamdin Road, Lark Valley Business Park, Bury St Edmunds IP32 6NU. Check out this Royal Enfield Continental GT below, and we’ll post a few…

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  • Bunt’s yer uncle…

    Bunt’s yer uncle…

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    In much the same way as there are now reckoned to be more of the legendary Manx Norton race bikes today than were ever built by the Bracebridge factory in the model’s 16-year (1946-1962) history, there do seem to be a suspiciously large number of hardtail frames allegedly 
built by John Reed, the legendary Uncle…

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  • Turbo-chaaaaaaarge! King of the tragic light Grand Prix!

    Turbo-chaaaaaaarge! King of the tragic light Grand Prix!

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    The bike started life as a hardtail frame I bought in 2006 with the vision to build a bike like my dad rode in the 1980s, writes Dale. Pictures: Simon Everett It’d been designed for a Kawasaki Z650 motor, but I’d picked up a GPz750 to use as a donor bike, and intended creating a…

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  • A long time coming…

    A long time coming…

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    Ever since I was a teenager I’ve always wanted a chopper, writes Jim Tarry. I used to have pictures on my bedroom wall of ’70s-style choppers, but in those days I couldn’t afford one and, anyway, back
 then I didn’t have a bike licence! Pictures: Garry Stuart Over 
the years, after having a couple of…

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  • Ride of My Life

    Ride of My Life

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    Frank Melling is the one motorcycling journalist who has every T-shirt in the biking world. From riding the latest retro bikes to throwing a leg over the legendary eight-cylinder Moto Guzzi GP racer or being there the day the gates were closed at BSA, he has always had a knack of being at the very…

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  • Making riders’ voices heard

    Making riders’ voices heard

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    Selina Lavender, the Motorcycle Action Group’s national chairman, gives an update on the group’s activities. While politicians may’ve been off on their holidays to distant and exotic climes, the Motorcycle Action Group never rests. We’ve been unrelentingly active throughout the summer; even more than we were in the spring. MAG is now so involved at a…

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  • (Gold) Rush to Motorcycle Live 2017…

    (Gold) Rush to Motorcycle Live 2017…

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    With just a few days to go until Motorcycle Live, the UK’s biggest bike show at the NEC, Birmingham from 18-26th November, we can announce that the line-up for the BSH Custom Xtreme stand is an absolute cracker! We will have (deep breath) Mooster’s two mega rats Genocide and Fugly, Burtz’ Bonneville bobber (issue 401),…

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  • Rick Hulse – Road trip 2017, part 1

    Rick Hulse – Road trip 2017, part 1

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    As regular followers of my BSH column will know, I went on a two-week road trip through Spain, Andorra and France, in July with my lovely girlfriend Mandy as my pillion on a Yamaha XVS950 ‘Midnight Star’ trike. We were accompanied by my brother Bill (on his Yamaha XVS950 ‘Midnight Star’ motorcycle) and four friends,…

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  • December 2017 issue out now!

    December 2017 issue out now!

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    Packed with gorjus bikes, folk having fun, reports on 2017 rallies, shows and meets – and loads of Christmas gift ideas for your loved one, two-wheeled and otherwise – it’s another issue of BSH you won’t want to miss. Why? Well it’s our December offering and there’s not a hint of tinsel or baubles, not…

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  • Cars, they’re all right, aren’t they, but they’re not bikes…

    Cars, they’re all right, aren’t they, but they’re not bikes…

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    Ger Merrigan’d become sick of modifying cars, as he had been for a few years, and came up with the idea of building a bobber, writes Ian Shipley. He managed to find a donor bike, a 1979 Yamaha XS500 that an old buddy of his had, which was duly swapped for a few Euros. This…

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