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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.

Editorial • HELLO, AND WELCOME TO ANOTHER ISSUE OF THE UK’S OLDEST AND LONGEST RUNNING CUSTOM BIKE MAGAZINE! HOPE ALL’S GOOD WITH YOU?

ROCK & BLUES • THE FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ROCK & BLUES – WHO’D’VE THOUGHT BACK IN 1984 THAT WE’D STILL BE RIDING AND RALLYING FORTY YEARS LATER!

EL’S PAN • EL BERNARDES GOT HER PANHEAD, A 1956 FLF (THE SECOND F SHOWS IT’S AHAND-CLUTCH/FOOT-SHIFTER), IN2020 DURING THE PANDEMIC AS A FAIRLY STOCK ‘UN AND, AS SHE’S ALWAYS ADMIRED THE JAPANESE CHOPPER SCENE, AND THE WOMEN WHO RODE CHOPPERS OVER THERE IN PARTICULAR, REASONED THAT IF THEY COULD DO IT, SO COULD SHE.

BAD WABBIT SHINDIG • ONE THING I’VE FOUND IS BIKERS IN GENERAL ARE AN ADAPTABLE LOT, AND CAN USUALLY FIND WAYS ROUND BARRIERS − WHEN THE REGULAR VENUE FOR THE BAD WABBIT SHINDIG PUT A BLANKET BAN ON ALL OUTSIDE EVENTS, DUE TO NIMBY NEIGHBOURS, THEY, AND A FEW OTHER CLUBS, HAD TO LOOK FOR A NEW VENUE IN QUITE A SHORT TIME.

LITHE & LEAN (THE WRONG WAY) • THE BIKE YOU’RE LOOKING AT HERE, MARTIN ‘DUNNY’ DUNNING’S GSX 1100, ISN’T, DESPITE APPEARANCES, A NEWLY FINISHED BUILD. NO, IT’S ACTUALLY NEARLY 20 YEARS OLD, UNBELIEVABLY, AS IT WAS FINISHED AND FIRST MOT’D IN THIS FORM IN JULY 2005 – SOMETHING I FIND QUITE INCREDIBLE AS IT LOOKS LIKE IT WAS FINISHED YESTERDAY.

WORSHIP MOTO SHOW • LET’S GET ONE THING STRAIGHT RIGHT AWAY – WORSHIP IS NOT A STREETFIGHTER SHOW. YES, ALL THE BIKES IN ARE/WERE THE SORT OF THINGS THAT’D’VE BEEN FEATURED IN THE LATE, LAMENTED STREETFIGHTERS MAGAZINE, THAT’S TRUE, AND ANYONE SEEING ONE OF THEM PARKED ANYWHERE ELSE’D PROBABLY IMMEDIATELY SEE IT AS A STREETFIGHTER, BUT WORSHIP IS, CATEGORICALLY, NOT A STREETFIGHTER SHOW, OKAY?

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SCOOBY DO…ER, DOES (TO BE GRAMMATICALLY CORRECT) • THOSE OF YOU WITH VERY LONG MEMORIES MAY REMEMBER THIS BIKE FROM BACK IN THE 1990S – PAUL FROM NCC KERNOW’S FLAT-FOUR SUBARU; A SINGLE-SIDED HARDTAIL CONSTRUCTED USING ONE OF THE JAPANESE CAR FIRM’S LONG-RUNNING (28 YEARS IN PRODUCTION) EA-SERIES ENGINES.

COPDOCK MOTORCYCLE SHOW • YES, YES, I KNOW THAT, OFFICIALLY, THE COPDOCK MOTORCYCLE SHOW, OR JUST COPDOCK AS US ‘ERE IN THE EAST CALL IT, IS NOW CALLED THE EAST ANGLIAN COPDOCK BIKE SHOW, BUT THAT’S SUCH A CLUMSY NAME I’LL SWEAR YOU ALL AS HONORARY EASTERNERS, AND BETWEEN US WE’LL JUST CALL IT COPDOCK, EH?

GREEN ARROW • HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED THAT A LOT OF THE EVERYDAY PEOPLE, THE NON-SUPERHEROES IF YOU LIKE, IN THE DC COMICS ‘MULTIVERSE’ ARE JUST A WEE BIT, I DON’T KNOW, DIM? I MEAN, SUPERMAN’S SECRET IDENTITY’S PROTECTED FROM THE WORLD BY JUST A PAIR OF GLASSES, AND NUMEROUS OTHER CHARACTERS WEAR MASKS SO MINIMAL IT’S BLATANTLY OBVIOUS WHO THEY ARE, YET NO ONE EVER SAYS “’ERE, ‘AVE YOU NOTICED THAT (INSERT CHARACTER’S NAME HERE) DUN ‘ALF LOOK LIKE (INSERT SECRET IDENTITY’S NAME HERE) IN A MASK”, DO THEY?

BEER BUILDS BETTER BIKES • WELL, ARGUABLY… A MORE CORRECT PHRASE’D BE ‘BEER INSPIRES BETTER BIKES’ COS ACTUALLY BUILDING BIKES WHEN ONE’S FULL OF BEER IS PERHAPS ONE OF THE QUICKEST WAYS TO BECOME ACQUAINTED WITH A TALL, VERY SKINNY GENTLEMAN IN A BLACK ROBE WHO TALKS IN CAPITALS, DON’T YOU THINK?

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