Nik Samson

  • GS750 for Wally

    GS750 for Wally

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    This bike was built in tribute to Wally Walton, a deeply missed fixture of the East Anglian biker scene, for his daughter-in-law.

  • Windjammer | GSX-R 750 chopper

    Windjammer | GSX-R 750 chopper

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    I first saw this bike a year or two ago in a Facebook post, and then in pics from various vintage chopper events, and just loved the concept of a chopper, a proper springer/hardtail chopper, with a fairing. I’ll let Tommy, the owner and builder, tell you about it…

  • Husband and Wife’s Sportsters

    Husband and Wife’s Sportsters

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    I don’t know if you’ve been to any of these new(ish) vintage chopper events as they’re called – The Trip Out, The Hook-Up, South-West Chopper Fest, etc.? If you haven’t, well, you’ve missed out, I think, and if you have there’s a good chance you’ll’ve seen the two people who own these bikes ‘cos… well,…

  • Tracking down a XS650, 35 years after we gave it away!

    Tracking down a XS650, 35 years after we gave it away!

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    This XS650 may look familiar to long-term readers of the magazine because we gave it away back in 1988. We find out how the years have treated it…

  • Review: Roadskin Easyrider Hoodie

    Review: Roadskin Easyrider Hoodie

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    I’m a month in with this new Easyrider hoodie from Roadskin, the well-known British armoured clothing company, and it’s turning out to be a real go-to for any day when it’s not absolutely pi… err, tipping it down. A lot of Kevlar hoodies’re heavy, protective, yes, but heavy, but this one’s made from a single…

  • Royal Enfield Scram 411 | Real world road test

    Royal Enfield Scram 411 | Real world road test

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    According to the press blurb, Royal Enfield’s Scram 411 is a stripped-back roadgoing version of the A2-licence compliant Himalayan adventure bike (that’s trailie to you and me) with a smaller front wheel (to give sharper steering), and a slightly less upright riding position.

  • Rare Breed, revisited!

    Rare Breed, revisited!

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    Far back in the mists of ancient time (well, 1991 anyway), in issue 167 of this very magazine, Rich King, erstwhile photographer/scribe of this parish, went to see a guy named Nigel from Lincolnshire about his really rather stunning long, low, blue DOHC 750 Honda chop called Rare Breed.

  • Steam’d Shovel

    Steam’d Shovel

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    Mark bought three boxes of Shovelhead bits from someone in Cornwall, and this bike ’ere, a ’75 1340, is the last of the three to be put together.

  • Unique Steampunk Suzuki

    Unique Steampunk Suzuki

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    Chris’s steampunk Suzuki really turned heads at Motorcycle Live!, including Nik’s. He takes a closer look.

  • The New BMW R 18

    The New BMW R 18

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    The new BMW R 18 mega-cruiser is BMW’s first foray into the cruiser market in a good few years, and has a newly developed 2-cylinder boxer engine with a displacement of 1,802 cc, peak power of 91hp, and over 150 Nm of torque. The styling is based on the 1936 R5, and uses telescopic fork…


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