Cruisers

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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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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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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This bike really started when I bought a billet rear wheel from Krazy Horse Customs in far-away (well, from me anyway) Bury St Edmunds to 
do a fat back end conversion on my Harley, explains Kev Donald. I put it in and it looked great, but after six months of Portsmouth weather I was fed…

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Way back in 2013, Back Street Heroes organised the first BSH Xtreme Custom Show, held in the exhibition halls at Donington Park. At the time, the editorial team of Stu and Blue had the idea of doing some kind of ‘Build Off’ at the event, whereby two builders’d create a couple of bespoke bikes in…

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“I’m not the tallest guy in the world, 
only 170cm, so that’s why I have always stuck with English bikes – they tend to be small and compact,” says Huxflux Nettermalm from Stockholm. Huxflux, what the heck kind of name is that, even for a Swede? “I was at a really wild party some years…

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For some folk, building 
a custom bike is a compulsive pastime – spending each winter building a new bike for the forthcoming riding season. Paul Robson is one such man. For the last five winters he’s built bikes, not just to keep him out of the pub, but also because he found the process very…

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