Cruisers

In something of a contradiction to Tony Garnham-Parkes’ company name, as of early April, this was the latest bike to roll out of the Sheffield workshop of Complete Cafe Racer! Words & pics: Dave Manning Clearly, it’s not a caffeine-fuelled road racer that owes its styling and heritage to the Ton-Up boys of yore –…

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One of the things about biking, custom biking, that fascinates me is the way the scene has so many separate facets, separate sub-divisions, the more you look into it. Words and pics: Nik You have folk who are into bike trikes, folk who are into car trikes, folk who are into streetfighters, folk who are…

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A bit from here, and a bit from there – it’s probably the most clichéd way to build a bike but, like all good clichés, it has a solid basis in truth and honesty. Words: Dave Manning Pics: Garry Stuart And, to be totally frank, it’s perhaps the only way that any of us actually…

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When most of us hear the word ‘chopper’ we think of a motorcycle with long forks, don’t we? If we go back all the way to when the word was first used, though, it didn’t mean that at all – it meant a bike that’d been cut down and modified for both speed and looks.…

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NOBODY seems to quite know when the alloy of copper and zinc that’s more commonly known as brass became the ‘must-have’ material for custom bikes, but it’s a recent trend that, although very much a modern thing, can be traced back, pretty much, to the dawn of motorcycling. Words & pics: Fazerdaze The use of…

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I’ve been riding and building bikes as a hobby for 42 years. I had a pretty common list of bikes to begin with: FS1E, RD250, Z650, CBX1000, have done loads of track days, and previous builds’ve been featured in Superbike, Streetfighters and AWoL magazines, all based on the Honda CBX1000 – all built in a…

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I first clapped eyes on The Vampire, as Nik christened this bike in 1989 when he wrote it up back then – it was featured in issue 166, and was on the cover of the 1990 Yearbook too, but it didn’t look quite like it did then (or does now). Words: Rob Widdrington Pics: Nik…

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