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.

Editorial

STORMIN' THE CASTLE • FOR THE BEGINNING OF THIS ARTICLE, I’LL START BY SHOWING YOU THREE NUMBERS: 4256, 129 AND 32. WHAT’RE THEY ABOUT THEN? I’LL EXPLAIN…

Snow Shodel PART2 • BACK IN ISSUE 487 INOCTOBER LAST YEAR WE SHOWED YOU JUHA ROUHIKOSKI FROM FINLAND’S SWINGARM SHOVELHEAD HARLEY, BUILT BYSAMI RISKU – THE STUNNING WHITE SHOVEL ON THE COVER OF THE ISSUE. IN THAT PIECE I MENTIONED SAMI’D BUILT ANOTHER SHOVEL, TOO, AND PROMISED WE’D SHOW YOU THAT, TOO, AND, AS AMAN O’ ME WORD, HERE ITIS.

HA KENT FAMILY YARD PARTY • “ANGELS HAVE FAMILIES TOO”’ WAS VERY MUCH THE THEME OF KENT HA’S FAMILY YARD PARTY – A FAMILY DAY WITH AN ADDED BIKE SHOW!

RACE BRED PART TWO • LAST ISSUE WESHOWED YOU JAMES’ HIGH-TECH BANDIT CHOP (‘RACE BRED’), AND TOLD HOW EVERYTHING HE BUILDS HAS A PERFORMANCE-INSPIRED EDGE TO IT – THIS TIME, WE’RE GOING TO DEMONSTRATE THAT FURTHER; THIS, LADIES N’ GENTS, IS HIS GSX-R 750 STREETFIGHTER.

THE TRIP OUT • AFTER ALONG SUMMER OFTRAIPSING THE LENGTH AND BREADTH OFTHE COUNTRY GOING TO EVENTS, IT’S NICE TO DO ONE THAT’S RIGHT ON ME DOORSTEP (FIGURATIVELY, IF NOT LITERALLY), AND ONE WHICH IPARTICULARLY ENJOY.

SHOW-WINNING SCRAMBLER • THIS BIKE, LADIES N’ GENNULMEN, IS THE ONE OUR LAUREN SPOKE ABOUT IN HER PIECE ON HA NORTH LINCS’ BULLFROG BASH AS BEING THE BEST IN SHOW WINNER, AND YOU CAN SEE WHY, CAN’T YOU?

CALSTOCK BIKE SHOW • CALSTOCK BIKE SHOW IS, ORRATHER WAS, SOMETHING OFA HIDDEN GEM.

Chiselled Good Looks… • SO LAST YEAR, ONTHE EPIC TRIP AROUND THE SOUTH-WEST PHOTOGRAPHING BIKES, I’M SITTING OUTSIDE JIMY FROM NCC SOMERSET’S PLACE, DRINKING COFFEE IN THE SUN, WHEN THE PEACE’S DISTURBED BY THE BARK OF A V-TWIN ON OPEN ‘PIPES – RON FROM NCC LONDON’D TURNED UP.

MORTAGUA FIGHTER 12-'LUSICANA' • IT’S BEEN AFEW YEARS SINCE WE LAST HAD ONE OF CARLOS ‘MORTAGUA FIGHTER’ RODRIGUES’ INCREDIBLE CREATIONS IN BSH–THE LAST WAS HIS 600 BANDIT, INFERNAL CHAOS, BACK IN ISSUE 425 NEARLY SIX YEARS AGO. THAT WAS HIS NINTH BUILD – THE ONE YOU SEE HERE IS HIS TWELFTH: LUSITANA.

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EXCELSIOR! • FOR THOSE OF US OUT THERE WHO ARE SLIGHTLY YOUNGER THAN THE MEAN (AS IN THE AVERAGE AGE, NOT THOSE WHO NEVER BUY AROUND), THE WORD ‘EXCELSIOR’ IS WHAT THE LATE, GREAT MARVEL SUPREMO STAN LEE’D OPINE AND, ALTHOUGH THE WORD ITSELF IS A LATIN ADJECTIVE MEANING ‘HIGHER’ OR ‘MORE ELEVATED’*, HE TOOK IT AS MEANING ‘UPWARD AND ONWARD TO GREATER GLORY’ – ASUITABLE MOTTO, I THINK, FOR A CUSTOM BIKE.

TANK ART • ART IS, AS ALL ARTIST TYPES’LL SAY, SUBJECTIVE - BASED ON OR INFLUENCED BY PERSONAL FEELINGS, TASTES, OR OPINIONS, AND OVER THE NEXT FEW ISSUES WE’LL DEMONSTRATE THAT. HERE’RE A FEW MORE TANKS AND MUDDIES SPOTTED THIS AND LAST SUMMER.

LEGACY MOTORCYCLES’ BSA GOLD STAR SCRAMBLER • A BIT OF A DIFFERENT ROAD-TEST THIS ISSUE ‘COS THE BIKE YOU SEE HERE IN FRONT OF YOU ISN’T AN OFF-THE-SHELF* BIKE YOU CAN BUY FROM ANY DEALER – IT’S A MODIFIED VERSION OF THE NEW BSA GOLD STAR, BUT YOU CAN HAVE ONE JUST LIKE IT AS THEY’LL MODIFY YOUR BIKE TO LOOK SIMILAR.

A YEAR OF CUSTOM BIKING… PART FIVE • LAST ISSUE I WAS TALKING ABOUT THE FRONT END FROM THE BANDIT BEING PUT ON THE LONG-STALLED KATANA PROJECT, AND THINGS’VE MOVED ON APACE IN THE LAST FEW WEEKS.

MY Bridges’ Motorcycle Diaries • LAST TIME I ABANDONED THE TUBE POLISHER BUILD AT THE POINT WHERE I HAD THREE ROLLERS, ONE POORLY DESIGNED ARM, AND SOME STUFF BOLTED TO A PIECE OF STIRLING BOARD (FIG.1).

FERRYMAN • IT’S THE PERFECT COMMUTE TO WORK: A MORNING IN LATE SPRING, WITH EVERYTHING IN LEAF AND BUD, THE SUN WARM WITH A HINT OF SUMMER, BUT WITH ENOUGH CHILL TO MAKE YOU FEEL...