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.

  • August 2024

    August 2024

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

  • 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…

  • ROAD TEST: Harley-Davidson Sportster S

    ROAD TEST: Harley-Davidson Sportster S

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    A grunty V-twin motor, fat tyres and feet-forward pegs. It could only be a Harley. Matt Hull does some serious rumbling on the Sportster, here’s Matt’s musings… Life is now about what you look like. What social media will judge you on. How ‘friends’ you’ve never met see your position in society. To hell with…

  • July 2024

    July 2024

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    Take a look at the best custom bikes of old in the July 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, all…

  • The last Revolution FJ?

    The last Revolution FJ?

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    Ever since I spotted this bike at, I think, NCC London’s Diamond Day show at the Ace Cafe a number of years ago, I’ve wanted to get it photographed for BSH as it’s a bittersweet part of custom bike history in this country. I’ll let Ted, NCC Honorary, tell you about his bike, shall I?

  • June 2024

    June 2024

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

  • 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.

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