Category: Your Ride
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WATCH: Sportster sidecar outfit
Uber-cool Sportster-engined (with Shovelhead covers) sidecar outfit, originally built by Attitude Customs, rebuilt motor and fettling by So Low Choppers – soon to be featured, watch this space!
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Near Varna: ‘Leaving Essex for Eastern Europe’
With his 50th birthday looming, Graham Field felt a need for something significant to happen so, on Midsummer’s Day, he embarked on what he expected to be an unadventurous European tour on a KTM motorcycle. He travelled through Bulgaria’s uncrowded and untamed snow-capped mountains and Black Sea beaches, Islamic Turkey, sun-baked and bankrupt Greece, mystic…
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Explore Scotland with new motorcyclist’s guide
Scotland is one of the best places in the UK to explore on a bike, and this book, written by a gentleman who really knows his way around, is an absolute must for anyone who wants to get off the beaten track, and away from the herds.
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The New BMW R 18
The new BMW R 18 mega-cruiser is BMW’s first foray into the cruiser market in a good few years, and has a newly developed 2-cylinder boxer engine with a displacement of 1,802 cc, peak power of 91hp, and over 150 Nm of torque. The styling is based on the 1936 R5, and uses telescopic fork…
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Triumph’s Rocket 3 R recreates iconic tablecloth trick
Triumph Motorcycles has taken on the oldest bike stunt in the world – the tablecloth trick – to showcase its ultimate high-performance muscle roadster, the Rocket 3 R.
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Surplus stock – Kawasaki Z650
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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Old-school Shovelhead
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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Rumble in the ‘Jumble – BSA A10
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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Old School Triumph
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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Brass bomber
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…
