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.

  • Series 11 of the Motorbike Show Starts 5th October

    Series 11 of the Motorbike Show Starts 5th October

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    Series 11 of The Motorbike Show has been rescheduled and will now start on ITV4 on Wednesdays at 9pm from 5th October.

  • Biker tatts wanted!

    Biker tatts wanted!

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    We’ve noticed of late that you lot haven’t really sent pics of your tatts, especially your biker tatts, into Readers Lives, and we’d like to get a few in, y’know?

  • Preview: October issue of Back Street Heroes Magazine

    Preview: October issue of Back Street Heroes Magazine

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    Take a look at the best custom bikes of all in the October 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…

  • K3-Lady in Pink

    K3-Lady in Pink

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    “A chassis with a hardtail frame, long forks, cool chopper tank, and some loose parts” – a beautiful ‘fun package’ from a long gone era was offered to me for a decent price back in 2012. It was a long drive to collect it, but I saw possibilities, and couldn’t resist buying it. Onno ‘Berserk’…

  • At The Moment…

    At The Moment…

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    As’s been mentioned a few times over the last few months, some bikes’ve taken a while to get photographed for the magazine because of delays imposed by Covid and lockdowns. Some, though, take a while to get photographed ‘cos the owner(s)’re forever pulling the feckin’ things apart and redoing them… Nik This one ’ere, Tony…

  • Testing Positive

    Testing Positive

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    There’s much been said about the downsides of the Covid lockdowns that most of us were affected by, but perhaps not quite as much about the positive effects it had on our lives… The mainstream media may waffle on about the huge uptake in gardening, or how ‘community spirit’ made a comeback, but what we’re…

  • Young Blood

    Young Blood

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    When Cheyenne Keogh was fifteen, thanks to her mum being a riding instructor, she decided she wanted a bike. When she was seventeen, she got an AJS Bobber and, as her dad, Mark, had built a few bikes over the years, asked him if he could modify it to be more ‘her’.

  • Free to Wanda: ’79 Harley Davidson FXWG Wide Glide Shovelhead

    Free to Wanda: ’79 Harley Davidson FXWG Wide Glide Shovelhead

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    One of the things you often hear about custom bikes, generally by people who don’t ride them it has to be said, is that they’re all show and no go – they’re only good for short journeys, not capable of racking up the miles on long journeys…

  • VIDEO: Steam-Powered Drag Bike

    VIDEO: Steam-Powered Drag Bike

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    How wonderfully mad is this? Graham Sykes from North Yorkshire has spent nine years (and £70,000!), building and refining his steam-powered drag bike ‘Force of Nature’. In tests it did 121mph in 2.5 seconds, and looks pretty damn spectacular when it runs too! To see the bike in action, go along to any of the…

  • BSH welcomes war hero Simon Weston CBE in journey to getting on the road

    BSH welcomes war hero Simon Weston CBE in journey to getting on the road

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    In our November issue of Back Street Heroes, we have the pleasure of welcoming Falklands War veteran Simon Weston CBE.

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