Category: Your Ride
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Book of the Week: Café Racer International Volume 2
Our book of the week for this week is Mike Cowton’s Café Racer International Volume 2!
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Burning Bright…
The story of this bike, the idea behind it, goes back a long time… a long, long time so are you sitting comfortably? Then we’ll begin…
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Rare Breed, revisited!
Far back in the mists of ancient time (well, 1991 anyway), in issue 167 of this very magazine, Rich King, erstwhile photographer/scribe of this parish, went to see a guy named Nigel from Lincolnshire about his really rather stunning long, low, blue DOHC 750 Honda chop called Rare Breed.
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Steam’d Shovel
Mark bought three boxes of Shovelhead bits from someone in Cornwall, and this bike ’ere, a ’75 1340, is the last of the three to be put together.
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Unique Steampunk Suzuki
Chris’s steampunk Suzuki really turned heads at Motorcycle Live!, including Nik’s. He takes a closer look.
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New Nightster? We’ve seen the leaks…
Leaked documents confirm that Harley-Davidson is gearing up to release a new Nightster S – and although the details are scarce, we have got our hands on an image of the bike. The big differences from the standard Nightster include the addition of a small pillion seat, new wheels, and a swanky new paint job.…
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The Thing…
THE THING’, AS THIS BIKE’S CALLED, WAS BORN OUT OF AN IDEA TO BUILD AN OLD SCHOOL ‘70S CHOPPER. Simon Boden reports… I had the urge to build one, but had to find a donor bike to start the project. After much searching, I came across an ’84 Ironhead Sportster on eBay – it was…
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Spine Crippler – 1979 Yamaha XS650
Although he calls it ‘Spine Crippler’, the legend on the tank of Jason Williamson’s XS650 reads ‘Deathwish’ – something that a lot of folk may agree with when they realise his bike’s seriously lacking in the front brake department…
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Donations wanted for Ace Café London’s Christmas Toy Run
Ace Café London’s annual Xmas Toy Run is back in December for it’s 25th year.
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The new BMW R 1250 R Roadster
The R 1250 R now presents itself in impressively honed and advanced form and provides even more roadster pleasure for riding on winding country roads solo or with a pillion.
