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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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