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.

  • Social Distance

    Social Distance

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    Radical bikes, bikes that push the boundaries, these days are few and far between. Back in the ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s there were many built but, as we’ve moved slowly and inexorably further into the 21st Century, that trend’s slowed almost to a stop…

  • June Issue

    June Issue

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

  • 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.

  • GSX 1100 Extra Tidy

    GSX 1100 Extra Tidy

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    When Suzuki released the four-valves-per-cylinder GSX1100 on the motorcycling world in 1980, it obviously had something very different in mind than the bike you see before you now.

  • May Issue

    May Issue

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

  • Green Monster

    Green Monster

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    Nik gets up close with a legend – Dutch’s very, very long, very, very green behemoth of a bike.

  • 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.

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