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.

  • Burning Bright…

    Burning Bright…

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    The story of this bike, the idea behind it, goes back a long time… a long, long time so are you sitting comfortably? Then we’ll begin…

  • 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.

  • April issue

    April issue

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

  • Help Ralph Short

    Help Ralph Short

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    Help cover NCC Thailand’s Ralph Short’s medical bills.

  • 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.

  • March Issue

    March Issue

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

  • The Thing…

    The Thing…

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    THE THING’, AS THIS BIKE’S CALLED, WAS BORN OUT OF AN IDEA TO BUILD AN OLD SCHOOL ‘70S CHOPPER. Simon Boden reports… I had the urge to build one, but had to find a donor bike to start the project. After much searching, I came across an ’84 Ironhead Sportster on eBay – it was…

  • February Issue

    February Issue

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

  • Honda’s Rebel CMX1100T

    Honda’s Rebel CMX1100T

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    The affordable cruiser gets the bagger treatment! The Japanese factory has revealed a new touring-ready model of its CMX1100 Rebel. It might look as though the new CMX1100T is largely unchanged from the ‘standard’ bike, with the same chassis and Africa Twin-derived 1084cc parallel twin engine which kicks out a respectable but not earth-shattering 85.3bhp.…

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