Back Street Heroes - November 2016

6 OPENFACED – all that’s new and
happening in the custom bike world

12 LETTERS – have your say
about ... well, owt really!

34 SUBSCRIBE TO BSH – see
here for the best subscription offers

44 (ALMOST A) ROAD TEST
– Our Billy rides the new Moto
Guzzi bagger

78 MAG NEWS – our regular column by
the MAG chairnongenderspecificperson

80 PROJECT STREET
MUTANT – part four of our new
Yamaha XSR900 project

84 PROJECT RAT ROD –
exhausts, oil cooler, electrics, the
last bits and bobs

88 MR BRIDGES’MOTORCYCLE DIARIES –
batteries and battery charging

92 PROJECT DESERT
RACER – finishing off
the exhaust

96 EVENTS – our guide to the best
rallies, shows, parties and runs!

100 READERS’ LIVES – four
pages of your pictures and our silly
captions ... yeah, sorry about that.

105 SMALLS – sell your bike
here for free!

113 NEXT MONTH – what’s
in the mag next month …
obviously!

114 RICK HULSE –
the musings of one of the most
eloquent thinkers in bikerdom!

14 GSX-R 750
STREETFIGHTER
super-tough Scottish
street scrapper

20 FARO
sun, sea and Sagres in
the far south

22 DUCATI DRAG BIKE
cafe racer’d and bloody quick!

28 XS650 YAMAHA
stunning engraved
Cornish chopper

36 883 SPORTSTER
blacked-out and double ‘ard

42 THE LOWDOWN (pictured)
old-skool choppers in Suffolk

50 ROCK & BLUES
this year’s biggie in the
Derbyshire hills

52 BMW R100RT
flamed and funky airhead

62 HOT ROD HAYRIDE
the cool kids meet in Surrey

64 US TRIKE
ultra-kool Seventies ‘Onda

68 NI RATFEST/ROARING
MEG BIKE SHOW
our FD travels across
the water

70 THE BSH CUSTOM
BIKE BUILDING CHAMPIONSHIP
your last chance to vote

76 YORKSHIRE PUDDING
Yorkshire MAG pulls it
off again