Series 11 of The Motorbike Show has been rescheduled and will now start on ITV4 on Wednesdays at 9pm from 5th October.
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Back Street Heroes
Back Street Heroes is the UK’s biggest-selling and best custom bike magazine. We cover all styles of custom bikes and the custom biker lifestyle. Subscribe here.
Biker tatts wanted!
We’ve noticed of late that you lot haven’t really sent pics of your tatts, especially your biker tatts, into Readers Lives, and we’d like to get a few in, y’know?
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Preview: October issue of Back Street Heroes Magazine
Take a look at the best custom bikes of all in the October issue of Back Street Heroes! Back Street Heroes covers all styles of custom bikes; choppers, bobbers, streetfighters, trikes, cafe racers, street scramblers, flat trackers, brats and rats… to name just a few. We also go to custom
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FIND THIS CHOP!
Porky, who built the glorious Shovelhead elsewhere in this issue, as mentioned in the article, built a 750/4 chop back in the ‘80s – the first bike he built, registration number JMC 491W. According to the DVLA, it hasn’t been on the road since its last MoT in 2018, so
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Kathin
I built this bike originally around eight years ago for a mate who was recovering from an operation and wanted me to let him pay weekly, and help build the bike as something to help him get stronger. It’s not something I’d do normally, but it felt like the right thing to do, so…
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At The Moment…
As’s been mentioned a few times over the last few months, some bikes’ve taken a while to get photographed for the magazine because of delays imposed by Covid and lockdowns. Some, though, take a while to get photographed ‘cos the owner(s)’re forever pulling the feckin’ things apart and redoing them…
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No Airs, No Graces
Every time Shammy saw Dan’s oil-burner Suzuki-engined chops, he wanted one more and more. So he asked Dan to build him one.
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Built For the Ride
You may remember Jason Mellers’ ultra-skinny ‘Cream Machine’ Sportster from a couple of years ago, which he’s now sold as, like many of the other lads in the Last Week of July collective, he likes to have a new (or radically reworked) bike for each year’s travels.
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Testing Positive
There’s much been said about the downsides of the Covid lockdowns that most of us were affected by, but perhaps not quite as much about the positive effects it had on our lives… The mainstream media may waffle on about the huge uptake in gardening, or how ‘community spirit’ made
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Global Gathering
When Glenn Townsend was living in Thailand, he saw a chopper for sale over there (the Thai chopper scene is amazing!) – a hardtailed Honda Bros 400 with a handmade teardrop tank, headlight cowling, mudguards, and side panels.
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