Back Street Heroes

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.

At The Moment…

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Web Editor

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9th August 2022

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… Nik This one ’ere, Tony…
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No Airs, No Graces

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Alex Bestwick

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8th August 2022

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

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Alex Bestwick

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5th August 2022

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

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Alex Bestwick

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4th August 2022

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 a comeback, but what we’re…
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Global Gathering

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Alex Bestwick

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4th August 2022

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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The Fenlanders 30th East of England Rally Ride-out to Felixstowe

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Arianne Davey

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4th August 2022

I spotted the Fenlanders chapter – sponsored by the Newmarket dealership – of the Harley Owners Group down at Felixstowe this weekend.
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Young Blood

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Alex Bestwick

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3rd August 2022

When Cheyenne Keogh was fifteen, thanks to her mum being a riding instructor, she decided she wanted a bike. When she was seventeen, she got an AJS Bobber and, as her dad, Mark, had built a few bikes over the years, asked him if he could modify it to be more ‘her’.
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Flames and Flames

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Alex Bestwick

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2nd August 2022

According to Wikipedia, ‘fire in the hole’ is an expression indicating an explosive detonation in a confined space is imminent. It originated from US miners, who needed to warn their fellows an underground explosive charge’d been set, but it’s since become more well-known as a throwaway smart-arse line used by military personnel in films when…
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UPBEAT DEMEANOUR

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Alex Bestwick

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1st August 2022

With the current fashion for doing up older Japanese bikes, particularly Kawasaki Zeds, Suzuki GSs and GSXs, and Yamaha RDs and YPVSs, in a ‘restomod’ (restored and modernised) style, it’s good to see that some out there don’t slavishly follow the herd…
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Preview: August issue of Back Street Heroes magazine

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Arianne Davey

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11th July 2022

Take a look at the best custom bikes of all in the August issue of Back Street Heroes!
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