In this issue

November 2020

LIFE'S A BEACH...

WHEN YOU’RE INVOLVED WITH SOMETHING AS ARCHETYPALLY CHOPPER AS THE EVENT CALLED THE HOOK UP, WELL, IT JUST WOULDN’T DO NOT TO HAVE A CHOPPER, WOULD IT?

4 mins

P&D CUSTOM SHOW (2019)

WHEN DAVE BATCHELAR AND CHRIS NICHOLS AT P&D CUSTOM BIKES FIRST DISCUSSED THE IDEA OF A ONE-DAY CUSTOM SHOW AT THEIR LOCAL VILLAGE CRICKET CLUB, THEY STARTED WITH ‘LET’S DO IT AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS’, AND IT WAS GOOD.

2 mins

TURNED OUT NICE AGAIN

FRED AUSTIN’S A PROUD YORKSHIREMAN WHO BELIEVES IN DOING A JOB THOROUGHLY, AND WITH PANACHE.

4 mins

The Butcher's Apprentice

MANY FOLK MIGHT NOT LOOK AT A YAMAHA DRAG STAR AND THINK ‘CAFÉ RACER PROJECT’, BUT LUKE AND MIKE AT BRISTOL BOBBERS RECKONED ONE’D MAKE AN IDEAL DONOR FOR A TRIBUTE TO THE ICONIC 59 CLUB, AND DECIDED TO BUILD IT TO THE STYLE OF THAT ERA – LOW RACER ‘BARS, AND A SLIM-LINE TANK.

3 mins

ENTER SAND-MAN

AS A KID, PAUL MILBOURN WAS FASCINATED BY THE STORY THAT THE STAR OF THE FILM CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG (THE CAR, NOT DICK VAN DYKE) WAS BURIED BENEATH PENDINE SANDS.

6 mins

LEARNING CURVE

MOST OF US’VE VERY FOND MEMORIES OF OUR VERY FIRST BIKE WHICH, IN ITSELF, GOES TO SHOW WHY THE DEMAND FOR THE LIKES OF FIZZIES AND BANTAMS HAS SEEN SUCH AN INCREASE OF LATE – PEOPLE WANT TO RE-LIVE THEIR ‘GOLDEN YEARS’.

3 mins

ARDINGLY AUTO JUMBLE

IT’S THE WEEKEND SO A QUICK CHECK – KEYS, CHECK; WALLET, CHECK; VAGUE IDEA OF WHERE I’M GOING, CHECK; HAND SANITISER AND FACE-MASK FOR THIS BRAVE NEW WORLD, CHECK. AT LONG LAST, AN EVENT TO ATTEND – LET’S FIND OUT HOW DIFFERENT THIS’LL BE.

2 mins

YAMAHAHA... SORRY?

I'VE ALWAYS LOVED GS SUZUKIS - MY FIRST BIKE AFTER PASSING MY TEST IN '89 WAS A f500 850G, AND I RODE THAT FOR A FEW YEARS BEFORE CHOPPING IT INTO A LOWRIDER THAT WOUND UP IN BSH. THREE MORE 850S, AND A 750 (ALONG WITH ABOUT 35 OTHER BIKES), 25 YEARS, AND FOUR CONTINENTS LATER, I BOUGHT A BUTT UGLY COBRA ENGINEERING FRAMED '93 HARLEY FXR.

3 mins

Shudy Camps Bike Meet

Far, far back in the mists of ancient time (well, the late eighties anyway), there used to be a bike show/rally in the little (barely 400 people live there) village of shudy camps in cambridgeshire.

2 mins

CLASSIC TRIKE FOR A CLASSIC RIDER

MY DAD, MIKE FARMER, LOVES HIS ’63 BSA A50, AND WHEN HE COULD NO LONGER RIDE IT HE ASKED ME TO CONVERT IT TO A TRIKE FOR HIM.

4 mins

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