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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.

  • A Lazy Monday Afternoon. 27/05/2019

    A Lazy Monday Afternoon. 27/05/2019

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    North East MAG with Durham MAG And Durham Markets are pleased to bring you the 2nd Lazy Day Custom and Classic show, just this year it’s on a Bank Holiday Monday. This year 100% Biker and Stormin are kindly sponsoring the event prizes. 12 prizes up for grabs worth around £150 each. Each prize includes…

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  • Keeping it in the family

    Keeping it in the family

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    In all the years I’ve ridden bikes, right back to when I was 13, I’d never had a proper road bike. I know, I know, shocking, isn’t it?

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  • The rebirth of cool

    The rebirth of cool

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    Back in September 2012 I’d just bought a ’57 GMC step-side truck, when I bumped into an old friend who told me he’d been to look at a 45 chop advertised in the window of an ice cream van on the edge of Morecambe Bay. Of course, where else do you find them? Words: Adrian…

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  • (Almost a) Road test – Can-Am Ryker Rallye

    (Almost a) Road test – Can-Am Ryker Rallye

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    The Can-Am Ryker is not only the lightest and slightest of the Can-Am three-wheeler range, it is also the one with the styling most like a motorcycle, looking far more bike-like than the company’s bigger Spyder, which Nik tested a while ago. Words: Dave Manning Pics: BPR & Dave Manning The manufacturer, Bombardier Recreational Products…

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  • June issue of Back Street Heroes out now!

    June issue of Back Street Heroes out now!

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    The rally season has begun in earnest (well, it really kicked off in April, but let’s not split hairs) and to help you make up your mind where to go this year, BSH June issue has a free 32-page listings supplement packed with dates for your diary. Who needs Mexico, Malta and Majorca when you…

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  • Loon’s Z1100 chop

    Loon’s Z1100 chop

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    See a quick video of Loon’s Z1100 chop here:

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  • The copper penny

    The copper penny

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    It’s been a few years since we last featured a bike built by Rob Wood at Twistedspine Custom Motorcycles (the last was his truly stunning stainless steel-framed BSA Bantam) so, ladies and gentlemen, may I offer for your delight and delectation one of the more recent offerings from his workshop – the Copper Penny. Words:…

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  • London tops ‘dangerous roads’ list

    London tops ‘dangerous roads’ list

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    Latest figures show that London has nine of the top ten most dangerous roads in the UK. They are: 1. Lambeth A23, London 2. Brent A404, London 3. Hackney A10, London 4. Islington A501, London 5. Hackney A107, London 6. Tower Hamlets A13, London 7. Powys A483, Wales 8. Islington A1, London 9. Wandsworth A3,…

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  • Sideways and sandy

    Sideways and sandy

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    For years we’ve drooled over the styling of Harleys and Indians from the 1940s, and we were also inspired by the images of TROG in the US, but finding (and affording!) an original Harley or Indian of this era was beyond our means so this created an opportunity to build a replica with a twist.…

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  • Building a motorcycle rally

    Building a motorcycle rally

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    Over the past four months, much of my time’s been taken up with organising the 28th You’ve Been Nabbed rally, which is to be held at the Royal Cheshire Showground near Knutsford from 10-12th May, says Rick Hulse This rally caters for anything up to 3,000 paying customers who come for a fabulous weekend of…

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