News

  • Brighton Speed Trials

    Brighton Speed Trials

    by

    Brighton’s popular annual motorsport event, The Brighton National Speed Trials, will return to the seafront again this year on Saturday 7th September. Around 150 cars and 75 bikes take the quarter-mile timed run down Brighton seafront, and you can watch from the start-line right at the heart of the action, and follow the action through…

    Continue reading »

  • Royal Enfield Bullet Trials

    Royal Enfield Bullet Trials

    by

    The new Royal Enfield Bullet Trials 500 is a tribute to the 1949 Bullet Trials ridden by Johnny Brittain across various championships, and will have distinctive design and functional features redolent of the heydays of classic trials competitions from the 1940s and ‘50s. It perfectly captures the look and feel of these early 1950s trials…

    Continue reading »

  • Lids and leathers appeal

    Lids and leathers appeal

    by

    NOTAS are running a campaign to collect old and damaged helmets and riding gear to donate to the emergency services (primarily the ambulance service) around the country, so that they can be used for training purposes, teaching safe removal, and how to cut them off where necessary. If you have anything that you can donate…

    Continue reading »

  • Triumph bobber build-off

    Triumph bobber build-off

    by

    Voting closes on Thursday this week (29th August) so it’s your final chance to help to find the winning entry for Triumph’s inaugural Bobber Build-off Challenge. Fans can vote by visiting the Triumph UK Facebook albums and liking their favourite builds – each ‘like’ counts as a vote. Triumph dealerships from around the UK are…

    Continue reading »

  • Get ready for Kustom Kulture Blastoff

    Get ready for Kustom Kulture Blastoff

    by

    The Kustom Kulture Blastoff 10th anniversary festival kicks off in style on 31st August at Lincolnshire Showground. It’s a weekend packed full of eye-popping sights, glamour, colour and sheer visual delights to shock and inspire, and is the place to be to see, share and enjoy subcultures from rolling art to kustom art, tiki to…

    Continue reading »

  • Bonhams MPH to sponsor Stratford Autojumble

    Bonhams MPH to sponsor Stratford Autojumble

    by

    Stratford Autojumble is proud to have Bonhams MPH as sponsor for the September event, which takes place at the centre ring at Stratford Racecourse on Sunday 15th.

    Continue reading »

  • Hunt is on for ‘The Howling’

    Hunt is on for ‘The Howling’

    by

    Does anyone know where this bike is? Dave Friend is looking to find his old lowrider/dragbike called ‘The Howling’ which was featured in BSH in the ’90s. This picture is from the time when he was racing it. The registration is Q999 FVT and it’s SORN’d. Dave says people remember the bike but he’s had…

    Continue reading »

  • Ariel gets a plum job at festival

    Ariel gets a plum job at festival

    by

    A vintage Ariel motorcycle – a make once built in Selly Oak, Birmingham – will recreate a 1929 publicity stunt when a similar bike, supported on wooden floats, powered its way across the Channel and back. The event brings together the Pershore Plum Festival and the Ariel Owners’ Motor Cycle Club’s (AOMCC) annual meet, which…

    Continue reading »

  • What price your health?

    What price your health?

    by

    In my voluntary role as chairman of the National Association for Bikers with a Disability (NABD), and in my paid job as an expert witness for the High Court, I spend quite a lot of my time dealing with bikers who’ve had serious life-changing injuries. by Rick Hulse Whether their injuries are as a result…

    Continue reading »

Enjoy more Back Street Heroes Magazine reading every month. Click here to subscribe.