Back Street Heroes

THE HOOK UP CHOPPER SHOW

EDITORIAL

Hello and welcome to this, the last issue of BSH of 2025 (no matter what it says on the cover). I enjoyed it… well, most of it (certain weeks in the autumn I could’ve done without) – the summer was warmer than last year’s and a lot less rainy, and I...

WE DID IT – 500 ISSUES! 5-BLOODY-HUNDRED! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? I BET WHEN THE LATE MR MYATT AND THE, ER, CURRENT MR MCFARLANE STARTED THIS ‘ERE MAGAZINE SOME 42 YEARS AGO BACK IN 1983, THEY COULDN’T EVEN CONCEIVE OF SUCH A THING!

‘Course, the world’s changed dramatically since those days, and we’ve had to change with it, but I’d like to think the magazine still has today, at heart, the same core values as it did when it was launched all those years ago. Things, and people, have...

PISSED & CONFUSED MCC'S SUMMER RALLY

IT’S BEEN A LONG TIME, A LONG, LONG TIME, SINCE I’VE BEEN TO A PISSED & CONFUSED RALLY. IT MAY ACTUALLY’VE BEEN LAST CENTURY (ISN’T IT BRILLIANT TO BE ABLE TO SAY THAT?), BUT IT WAS DEFINITELY AT THE SITE IN STEEPLE THAT FELT SO FAR EAST (ESPECIALLY...

Editorial

Wotcha! Welcome to issue 498 of BSH, just two away from the big 500 and, I dunno about you, but the anticipation’s killing me. 500 issues, eh? 500! Eesh… Anyway, what am I going to blather on about this month? I did have a topic planned, but Norm’s...

HELLO AND WELCOME TO THIS LATEST ISSUE OF BSH!

Last issue I talked about the stupidity of car drivers (well, one anyway) – this time it’s about the stupidity of motorcyclists. Sitting outside my local biker café the other day, I had the misfortune to meet a man the likes of which I, thankfully,...

Morning/afternoon/evening (delete as applicable), how’s it going? Welcome to this new issue of BSH!

I’m not going to mess around with preamble this issue, so let’s just talk about stupidity, shall we? T’other day I was at a pub, picking up some stuff from an event I’d held there, and was being talked at by a typical cardriving know-it-all who, when...

Editorial

Hello and welcome to this new issue of BSH! The big news this month is that MAG (Motorcycle Action Group… as if there’s anyone who doesn’t know) have announced their big Riders’ Resistance weekend of demonstrations up and down the land, protesting at...

DEVIL’S ADVOCATE

– AN OPINIONATED, ARGUMENTATIVE BUGGER SPEAKS

DRINK, DROP & DOSS RALLY

– ISN’T THAT WHAT YOU DO AT RALLIES THEN?

BAD WABBIT SHINDIG

– THERE’LL BE NO LETTUCE FOR THEM THEN!

HELLO, AND WELCOME TO THIS NEW ISSUE OF BSH!

AS you can see from the cover, this issue’s another celebrating the biggest custom bike building club in the UK – the National Chopper Club, with six bikes from around the land, and six of their events, too. Over the years BSH’s run many, many bikes...

VIC BIKERS PUB CUSTOM SHOW

IFyou’ve been you’ll know it’s a real bikers’ homefrom-home with good beer; good food (their chip butties’re bang on… always the sign of a good pub or café, that); a massive gig list of bands you’ll actually want to see; an excellent summer chill-out...

CASSINGTON BIKE NIGHT

2024 WAS, I THINK, AN ODD YEAR FOR BIKE EVENTS, IT REALLY WAS – ALMOST EVERY ONE YOU HAD TO PAY FOR WAS, AS FAR AS I COULD TELL, DOWN ON NUMBERS, EITHER A LITTLE OR A LOT, BUT THE FREE, OR NEARLY FREE, ‘UNS WERE HEAVING. ROYSTON & DISTRICT MCC’S...

2024 BSH CUSTOM CHAMPS

– THE WINNERS OF THE BIGGEST CUSTOM SHOW IN THE WORLD!

FARMYARD PARTY

It wouldn’t be Yorkshire without a touch of morning drizzle, would it, but when the sun broke through, you could see why they call this God’s own country. The sun shone, the bikes filed in past Duncombe House like soldiers on parade, and the atmosphere...

JOIN US!

Eee, hasn’t the world changed, eh? When I first started drinking (semi) legally, a beer (Younger’s Tartan bitter if you remember it) cost 79p in the local biker pub, and BSH was, I think, 95p. These days both a beer (well, round my way anyway) and a...

WEST LONDON HARLEY CLUB SHOW

– AND OUR REPORTER GOES ON A SUZUKI… DIV

ESSEX SPORTIES –

TALES OF DIGGERS THAT AREN’T DIGGERS, MENTAL PROBLEMS, AND THE WALKING DEAD