Have you checked out the winners of the 2017 BSH Custom Bike Building Championships yet? If you were at Motorcycle Live at the NEC last month you’ll have seen them in the flesh on the BSH Custom Xtreme stand – but if not, you can get a first glimpse of the victors in the January…
Prior to 2004, most people in the world, even the biking world, when asked about Exile Cycles, went quieter than the bar in the Slaughtered Lamb. Now, though, ex-pat Brit Russell Mitchell’s company and bikes are among the most famous on the planet. Pictures: Garry Stuart You see, in 2004 Russ and Exile Cycles participated in…
Remember those inline fours built in Great Britain under the Indian name a couple of decades ago? This is the guy who started the whole project back in the early 1990s under the name Wiking, with bikes based on 2000cc Volvo engines. Word and pictures: Charley Charles Sture Torngren of Stockholm, Sweden, is 71 years…
When Kawasaki launched the W650, its take on the infant retro market that actually preceded Triumph’s relaunched Bonneville (1999 for the Kwak, 2001 for the Bonnie, according to Wikipedia), a lot of people didn’t realise quite how ‘retro’ it was. Pictures: Simon Everett You see, the ‘W’ in ‘W650’ refers to Kawasaki’s W1, W2 and…
MAG has developed a strange and unnerving ability to look all grown up and democratic at times – for example, when we held our Annual Group Conference (AGC), which this year took place in Manea on the Cambridge/Norfolk border. Before we started, most of the conversation seemed to be about the funny way the roads…
Steampunk, as any fule nose, is just about one of the most fashionable lifestyle sub-cultures around at the moment. Flat/street-trackers are equally as desirable. Put them together and what do you get? Well, this bike here actually… Chris Vincent, the owner and builder of the black BMW cafe racer from the last issue, had an…
The Airbrush Company is a family-run business with 70 years of experience in airbrushing. The West Sussex-based firm is UK distributor for top airbrush brands Iwata and Sparmax, and offers a vast range of products including paints, accessories, stencils and educational materials. Professional artists and custom painters run regular classes in the company’s training room…
Check out these beauties with plenty of ‘pow’ and ‘wow’… three Indians just waiting for you to make a reservation! First up, naturally, is this Indian Chieftain (below) – pre-owned, it’s covered 5500 miles and has a full service history, stage one pipes, a sissy bar and 2.5 years of manufacturer’s warranty left. Cost: £17,…
By 8.30am we were packed and ready to leave Camping El Greco at Toledo. The main reason for the early start was that our next route would take us through Madrid and, knowing how dreadful the traffic (and everything else) can be in capital cities, we were prepared for the worst. As it happens, we…
With the advent of eBay back in September 1995 (it was actually called AuctionWeb back then, did you know that?), the biking world suddenly both expanded and shrank at the same time. What am I blithering on about? Well, it expanded in that us lot ’ere in Grande Bretagne (and in other countries around the…
