Frank Sinatra may’ve been the originator of the song My Way, but for a lot of people the definitive version is Sid Vicious’ punk reworking of the crooner’s classic.
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Category: Cruisers
From Africa with love
This particular motorcycle started life as, and still is really, a Coventry-Eagle; a bike so rare these days that most of us, if we’ve ever actually seen one.
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Trike design Open Day 2019
Trike Design is holding another of its special open days on Sunday, 9th June, and is aiming to raise funds for Newlife children’s charity.
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Keeping it in the family
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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The rebirth of cool
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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The copper penny
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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Sideways and sandy
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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New but old
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 all Fonda’s fault…
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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Brawler
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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