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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.

  • 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.…

  • Captain Larry

    Captain Larry

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    As an ode to the year Zodiac, the famous parts suppliers, started 1969, this cool chopper was built in the Zodiac workshop.

  • Spine Crippler – 1979 Yamaha XS650

    Spine Crippler – 1979 Yamaha XS650

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    Although he calls it ‘Spine Crippler’, the legend on the tank of Jason Williamson’s XS650 reads ‘Deathwish’ – something that a lot of folk may agree with when they realise his bike’s seriously lacking in the front brake department…

  • Donations wanted for Ace Café London’s Christmas Toy Run

    Donations wanted for Ace Café London’s Christmas Toy Run

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    Ace Café London’s annual Xmas Toy Run is back in December for it’s 25th year.

  • January Issue

    January Issue

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

  • ‘Tracker Tribulations

    ‘Tracker Tribulations

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    This Bonnie belonged to one of my best mates, Dave Robbo, for years, and it sat in the corner of his workshop in a part-disassembled condition. He’d bought it in 1984 when it was just two years old, and’d used it to go all over the country to rallies, as well as being a daily…

  • Merlin Warren cargos

    Merlin Warren cargos

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    I’ve always preferred combats/cargos to jeans ‘cos… I dunno really, I just have – some people are natural jeans wearers, I’m a natural combats/cargos wearer… it’s the extra pockets, I think, s I rarely remember to bring a bag to put stuff in.

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