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100% Biker 151
  • Evolution
    Evolution, according to one dictionary definition, is a process of gradual, peaceful, progressive change or development, as in social or economic structure or institutions.
  • The Harley-Davidson Flatliner
    The phrase ‘less is more’, the motto of minimalist architect, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (don’t say “who?”, he’s reet famous… apparently), is something that every custom bike builder should have in mind whenever they start a new project.
  • Tamed Racer - 1972 T120V 650 Bonneville
    The motorcycle you see before you, chaps and chapesses, is a genuine racing motorcycle – genuine as in it used to go round and round and round a race-track very, very fast indeed.
  • Dazza's Ting-Tong
    The motorcycle you see here in front of you, ladies and jellyspoons, is conclusive proof that you can have a stunning custom bike without ever laying a finger on an angle-grinder (or, in some cases, losing a finger to an angle-grinder).
  • The Secret Bantam - Part 2
    Okay, we’re well underway already here, with a rolling chassis all hardtailed last month and looking pretty groovy.
  • Nothing Too Excess...
    ’Ere, did you know that Yamaha’s famed XS650s are really of German and not Japanese design? No? Well, read on, MacDuff…
  • Bulldog Bash 2011
    The Bulldog Bash has a long legacy of innovation. The first truly interactive show, it burst onto the scene in a blaze of noise and speed at a time when other bike events were simply static shows.
  • Hardnine Choppers, Switzerland - Triumph
    You’d think that if you were lucky enough to live in Bern, Switzerland, a city that’s ranked in the top ten places in the world to live for quality of life, that you’d be happy, wouldn’t you?
  • NCC Diamond Day at the Ace Cafe
    Two of the greatest institutions in biking get together for a joint day of custom biking – the National Chopper Club and the Ace Cafe.
  • Paul Marlton - Pointy Hat Wizard Fabrications, Essex
    Paul Marlton is the man behind Pointy Hat Wizard Fabrications in Tilbury, Essex.
  • NCC Herts' Custom Show
    Those of you with very long memories may remember the ‘Malevolent Deity’ idea as to whether there’s a god or not. Take it from me, there is and it’s this evil twat.
  • Birmingham Demonstration
    Of all the anti-biker threats hatched lately, compulsory day-glo stands out like a  turd in a salad, sticking in the gullet of the free thinking biker who would face death before day-glo.
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100% Biker 150
  • Hard Times (Not a Novel by Charles Dickens)
    My love of choppers and hot rods started at the tender age of 13. I used to work on Stockport Market on my aunt’s stall to earn some pocket money, which I immediately spent at the next stall which sold imported American comics.
  • Knuckle Down(ton)
    As custom bikes, especially Harleys, get more and more bling as time goes on, it’s easy to forget that their primary purpose is to ride, or more correctly, to be ridden.
  • The Secret Bantam - Part 1
    Regular readers of my projects will remember that my good mate Paul always seems to feature somewhere, and this build is no exception.
  • Rock & Bike Fest 2011
    While a lot of us were off revelling in the sunshine at Faro, some of the more hardy were braving the weather at the Rock & Bike Fest.
  • Muted Cool
    Announcing to the world that you intend to paint your custom motorcycle grey is, for some reason, treated as something that’s perhaps a little odd.
  • The Widowmaker
    Many years ago, ladies and gentlemen, before I was old enough to ride motorcycles I was into custom cars of all shapes, sizes and styles, especially hulking great American V8s.
  • Perverts in Leather's Dirty Dozen Rally
    It’s not often that you turn up to a bike rally and feel over-dressed! But the PIL rally has a reputation to uphold and uphold it it does!
  • Dennis! - 1978 Triumph Bonneville
    Originally bought off eBay from a guy in Leicestershire on a snowy day in November last year, the look of the bike was originally an old school ’70s chopper – huge ape hangers, banana seat, etc.
  • Farrow's Folly
    As with all the best ideas in the world, the idea for Farrow’s Folly was conceived in the pub over a few beers.
  • Rusty Sprocket MCC's Moon Rally 2011
    The Rusty Sprocket MCC; a charity-based club that have been running out of Cardiff for nearly 20 years, may only have 15 members, but against the odds they’re still going strong.
  • Highway Hunters' Summer Party 2011
    So here I am, lovely Friday night, just turned up at Winfarthing near Diss for the Highway Hunters’ party.
  • Ger Conlon - C&C Celtic Choppers
    Ger Conlon is the probably the most well-known (I’d hesitate to say ‘famous’ ’cos he’ll get the mickey ripped unmercifully by all his mates if I do…) Irish custom bike builder there is or has ever been.
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100% Biker 149
  • Pro-Street Sporty
    Have you ever started something you really wish you hadn’t? Well, this Pro-Street Sportster has been one such nightmare. And I really mean nightmare…
  • The Red One - Honda Shadow/Steed 400
    It was while perusing the packed rows of bikes at the Predators’ show that I came across this little peach of a bike – it stood out like a ruby on a pebble beach from everything around it.
  • Super Superdream!
    It’s funny, isn’t it, how a stock Honda Superdream is a thing of ridicule in most people’s eyes, yet chopped ones are invariably cooler than a snowman’s cold bits?
  • Pay Up, Sucker! - Suzuki DR600
    After owning bikes all my life I thought it was time I built my own; so I built a frame jig and bought the bike for my project – a 1987 DR600 Suzuki.
  • Hampshire Hardcore
    Don’t get excited or start loosening your clothing – it’s not that sort of Hardcore. No, this is something much, much sexier.
  • Faro 2011
    30 years Faro has been going now and it just keep getting better and better! No wonder it’s such a must-do event on the average British biker’s calendar.
  • Black Beauty - Triumph Bonneville
    Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918) said in her poem ‘Trees’: “I think that I shall never see, A poem lovely as a tree.” Well, I don’t know about that, but if she’d been around just under a hundred years later, I’m sure she’d have changed those last...
  • The Shires
    My first experience of a Chopper Club show was around ’96 at Llandow’s Run What You Brung – shame it isn’t run anymore.
  • Black Sheep: 1st Sheep Dip Bike Show
    If, as they say, the sun shines on the righteous, this lot must be bloody righteous indeed. Even the newly laid tarmac on the cattle grids on Mannington Road was trying to melt and slide down the gaps!
  • East Coast Harley Club Summer Party 2011
    I don’t think it’s much of a secret that I’m not the world’s biggest fan of stock Harley-Davidsons (or most stock bikes really) and so I don’t usually bother going to H-D events.
  • Colin Rutherford - House of Custom, Glasgow
    Colin Rutherford is one of the head honchos at House of Custom in Glasgow. Never heard of ’em? How about Area 51 Customs? That’s what House of Custom used to be called.
  • Brimstone Bandit
    Being somewhat of a back shed bike builder, I always have an eye open for a cheap project, and this was no exception.
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