It’s funny, isn’t it, how some bikes can gain a reputation for being something special even before you’ve actually laid eyes on them? Words & pics: Ian Shipley Paddy O’Toole’s GPz750 chop is a fine example of this; everywhere I’ve been in the last year or so, knowing that I take pictures for Back Street…
Some things are meant to be, aren’t they? They may take a bit of time, or a fairly convoluted and circuitous route, to come into fruition, but eventually The Fates ensure that two things that’re destined to be, come together in a fortuitous way. Words: Nik Pics: Alien4 Take Chris from NCC Kent and the…
Let’s play a guessing game, shall we? Do you know which film made by George Miller, the director of the four Mad Max films – Mad Max, The Road Warrior, Beyond Thunderdome, and Fury Road – is his most successful? Bet you can’t guess … are you ready for the answer? Really ready? Okay, here it…
The Buell Cyclone wasn’t exactly the prettiest of bikes when it left Erik Buell’s loving hands… Words: Dave Pics: Garry Stuart IT had a long dual seat, deep side-panels and a deeply unattractive big suitcase-style appendage on the right-hand side of the motor that actually contained the air filter, but what this does mean is…
TRIKE Design’s open day will be on Sunday, June 10 at Sir Alfred Owen Way, Caerphilly CF83 3HU (11am to 4pm). There’ll be live music, freshly prepared food including Mandi’s Welshcakes, a bar, traders and a charity raffle. Check out the Facebook page for any updates or visit the website: www.trike-design.co.uk
It may surprise you, but some of our readers have interests outside of motorcycles… and not just drinking beer and listening to loud music either. Words and pics: Dave Take Alastair for example; aside from being a motorcycle nut – being of a certain age he was a ‘victim’ of the Easy Rider film, along…
Rick Hulse extols the virtues of the rally season! I have no idea whether this’s a result of the much-vaunted global warming or just one of those anomalies that happen from time to time. For all I know it could be due to a rift in the space-time continuum caused by the lamentable death of…
Most of us’ve heard the rather unlikely tales of people picking up a totally unbelievable bargain by being at the right place at the right time, haven’t we? And most of us put it down to a case of being who you know, and thus being offered parts at mates’ rates. Words: Dave Pics: Garry…
The big news for this year’s Farmyard Party is that the Big Top is back! The Farmyard, held at Duncombe Park in Helmsley (which, I don’t really need to tell you, is in Yorkshire), is held on 80 acres of pastureland separated into three huge grass fields (two for camping, one with campfires and one…
The Malle Mile, the combined custom and hill-climb event held in the grounds of Kevington Hall in London, billed as ‘the greatest and most inappropriate motorcycle race in the country’, is back for the weekend of 29th June-1st July. It’s a celebration of the motorcycle in all forms, with a non-stop programme of very inappropriate…
