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.

  • Bonneville racer

    Bonneville racer

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    Royal Enfield’ve built a Bonneville racer from one of their new 650 Interceptor twins, and it’s managed 159mph! Check out teenager Cayla Rivas putting the bike through its paces on the Bonneville salt flats in Utah here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx6R8qYPIks&feature=youtu.be  

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  • Another Triumph…

    Another Triumph…

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    Coverage of the exclusive launch of the New Scrambler 1200 in London with racing, music from the Amazons and 360 walkarounds of the New Scrambler 1200. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbKEDtoAoqM&t=79s

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  • Himalayan trips

    Himalayan trips

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    Quick vid of the new Royal Enfield Himalayan that our editor has been playing on for the last six weeks! He’s rather miffed he has to give it back! https://youtu.be/FbNfK3NvoGg

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  • Cop a load of this!

    Cop a load of this!

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    We recently went and shot Pete’s Triumph for the magazine – a very nice rigid-framed Saint (old police bike) given a whole new cooler lease of life. https://youtu.be/9gd_0ryzvGM

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  • One to look out for

    One to look out for

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    PJ from NCC Northants’ Buell chopper for the magazine – see it in a future issue! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcMU6yidNhg

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  • Knocker’s Ironhead

    Knocker’s Ironhead

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    Just a quick vid of a bike you’ll be able to see in Back Street Heroes soon! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdpG0SF2y5M  

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  • What the devil’s this?

    What the devil’s this?

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    Incontrovertible evidence that Satan has dumped ‘is ‘Arley and now runs a CB1000R+ Watch very closely and you’ll see! https://youtu.be/UHeJOOa-SxI

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  • Race the Waves on a Harley

    Race the Waves on a Harley

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    Hoxton Moto aka Diesel Films has built a Harley Beach Racer from a 1970s Ironhead, with the help of Jake Robbins. Here it is at the ‘Race the Waves’ in Bridlington this year. You can see a short video about the bike here:

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  • Classic or custom? You decide…

    Classic or custom? You decide…

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    Earlier this year we showed you the mad steampunk trike built by the legendary Finnish madman Petri Ruusunen. On the same day we also saw this; his single-cylinder JAP classic racer, 
the Velocimoteur. Words: Charley Charles Pics: Siwer Ohlsson As we said last issue, it’s quite difficult to believe everything that Petri says, as he’s fond of…

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  • North Atlantic Treat

    North Atlantic Treat

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    The importation of custom (and classic) motorcycles into Great Britain from the former colonies is neither anything new nor unusual, although it has perhaps become a little less high profile than it was a couple of decades ago or so. Words & pics: Dave Manning Just because we’re not seeing the chrome-encrusted billet barges that…

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