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.

  • The history of the National Chopper Club

    The history of the National Chopper Club

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    Back in the early 1970s, the custom motorcycle scene was in its relative infancy but, following the success of the film Easy Rider, suddenly choppers were the new thing. The scene took a whole new direction, and like-minded people began building them which, in turn, lead to the establishment of a motorcycle club dedicated purely…

  • May 2024

    May 2024

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    Take a look at the best custom bikes of old in the May issue of Back Street Heroes!

  • 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,…

  • Visiting Krazy Horse’s new biker art exhibition

    Visiting Krazy Horse’s new biker art exhibition

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    Last Friday, Nik went along to Krazy Horse’s new biker art exhibition by artists Rugman and Sheriffs Dirty.

  • April 2024

    April 2024

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    Take a look at the best custom bikes of old in the April issue of Back Street Heroes!

  • 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…

  • Indian: New 2024 Roadmaster Elite

    Indian: New 2024 Roadmaster Elite

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    Indian Motorcycle, America’s First Motorcycle Company, has unveiled its latest Elite model – a showstopping Roadmaster combining high-end sophistication, upscale fit-and-finish, and world-class touring capabilities. Indian Motorcycle designed the 2024 Roadmaster Elite to deliver an authentic, custom-inspired paint scheme for riders looking to turn heads and stand out from the crowd. In 1904 Indian Motorcycle…

  • March 2024

    March 2024

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    Take a look at the best custom bikes of old in the March issue of Back Street Heroes! Back Street Heroes covers all styles of custom bikes; choppers, bobbers, streetfighters, trikes, cafe racers, street scramblers, flat trackers, brats and rats… to name just a few. We also go to custom biker lifestyle events big and small,…

  • Indian Scout Rogue road test

    Indian Scout Rogue road test

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    The Rogue feels different from the other Scouts– it’s cool, growls a bit more deeply and has a slightly more expectant persona – but what’s it like to ride?

  • February 2024

    February 2024

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    Take a look at the best custom bikes of old in the February issue of Back Street Heroes!

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