Category: Your Bikes

In all the years I’ve ridden bikes, right back to when I was 13, I’d never had a proper road bike. I know, I know, shocking, isn’t it?

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Back in September 2012 I’d just bought a ’57 GMC step-side truck, when I bumped into an old friend who told me he’d been to look at a 45 chop advertised in the window of an ice cream van on the edge of Morecambe Bay. Of course, where else do

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It’s been a few years since we last featured a bike built by Rob Wood at Twistedspine Custom Motorcycles (the last was his truly stunning stainless steel-framed BSA Bantam) so, ladies and gentlemen, may I offer for your delight and delectation one of the more recent offerings from his workshop

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For years we’ve drooled over the styling of Harleys and Indians from the 1940s, and we were also inspired by the images of TROG in the US, but finding (and affording!) an original Harley or Indian of this era was beyond our means so this created an opportunity to build

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One of the criticisms you hear about custom bikes, especially ones built around older and perhaps rarer bikes, is that an old bike, and often a rare old bike at that, was cut up (read as ‘ruined’ in the more extreme cases) to build them. Words: Nik Pics: Garry Stuart

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It’s probably fair to say that Kev Clubley isn’t the only chap whose long-term dream’d been to own a Panhead chopper, and there’s little doubt that watching Easy Rider at some point in the (not-so) distant past has a lot to do with that fact… Words and pics: Dave Manning

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Over the years there’ve been numerous discussions about a style of motorcycle that gained a nickname back in the Eighties. Tough, big horsepower, no-compromise bikes that were all about attitude, and all about getting from point A to point B in as short a time as possible. Words and pics:

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The story of this bike is one that you could say is a series of a series of fortunate happenstances or, as I’d really say when Nik’s not putting words in my mouth, a series of results – you know, as in ‘Result!’ with an exclamation mark at the end.

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It’s strange how you meet people and how things work out. I met Andrew, the owner of this bike, when I called into his place of work and was asked: “Do you happen to have a large elastic band on you by any chance?” Words: Will Webb Pics: Simon Everett

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Over the years in BSH we’ve told you often enough of builds that’ve started out as one thing and ended up as another – it’s not an unusual occurrence. Paul from NCC Essex, the owner of the chop you see here in front of you, had no idea he was

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