Ride Report Journal

February 20, 2020

One is Not the Loneliest Number

For three hours I stared at the darkened highway just beyond the glow of the headlights, used one finger to hold the ...

January 28, 2020

The Quiet Side of Recharging

It is a struggle to accept electric vehicles. We recognize our unsustainable use of oil, but still we romanticize the...

January 27, 2020

DTRA 2019 Season Awards

Last weekend I attended the Dirt Track Riders Association awards presentation for the 2019 UK Flat Track National C...

January 17, 2020

Robert's Shed Built Harley Crosser

When life deals a bum hand, for some it knocks life into perspective and great things arise from adversity. Robert...

December 18, 2019

Cowboy's Chopper HD200

Over the last couple of years Taiwan has become the Portugal of the Far East. Nearly a decade ago workshops from Po...

November 27, 2019

Electric Motion Trials Experience

I have many regrets in life, but one that at times stings the most is that I didn't ride trials bikes as a kid. Gro...

November 18, 2019

Kenzo by Death Machines of London

Death Machines of London burst onto the custom scene with a bang. Their Moto Guzzi Le Mans based Airtail was a crow...

November 14, 2019

Gear Guide - Track Kit

This year I decided to ditch my humble, Stig of the Dump look and equip myself with some decent track gear. There a...

November 07, 2019

EICMA 2019 - Our Pick

Motorcycling is a very broad church – nothing attests to this like EICMA. Any and everything with two wheels, o...

October 30, 2019

XTR Pepo's Moto Morini Corsaro

It's a shame that more builders don't think outside of the cookie cutter when it comes to choosing donors for their...

October 30, 2019

Are Baggers Cool?

I'm not a cruiser guy and I certainly have no desire to sit on a bike, let alone ride, one adorned with tassles or ...

October 23, 2019

Yamaha R1M Masterclass - Silverstone

Half a million quids worth of fun! I don’t know about you but after I’ve watched a MotoGP race, WSBK to a lesser d...

October 17, 2019

The VC's Superior Motorcycle Experience

When my mate Gemma from VC London asked if I wanted to go on a girls biking trip to Dorset, I knew it was going to ...

October 09, 2019

Moto Guzzi V85TT - Ride Report

I absolutely loved my Moto Guzzi Stelvio, and miss having it around. I miss the character and foibles associated w...

October 01, 2019

November Customs' Zephyr 750

Too late, too late will be the cry when the bargain of the year passes you by. Anyone who's close to the custom bi...

September 25, 2019

Yamaha XSR700 - Plastic Surgery

I love the Yamaha XSR700, but it's not a particularly attractive motorcycle in standard form. It looks like Quasimo...

September 24, 2019

BSMC ’19MKII CLOTHING COLLECTION.

Introducing our latest clothing collection - '19MkII. Featuring the new BSMC Utility line of ‘Shed designed work-s...

September 04, 2019

Art or Sacrilege?

I've spent the majority of my working life immersed in the world of historic vehicles and am not only in tune with ...

September 04, 2019

Aprilia Fleet - Ride Report

I love Italian bikes, that's common knowledge to anyone that knows me. I'm the guy who likes to try and be a bit di...

August 30, 2019

Bike Shed Festival 2019

Ever since we did our first custom bike show in 2013, we've talked about doing an event where bikes are ridden and ...

August 21, 2019

The Gunslinger by La Busca

We're suckers for a Guzzi restomod and one guy who's turned out a few beauties over the years is Yorkshire based Je...

August 14, 2019

Gear Guide - Acerbis Ottano

I've been doing more and more greenlane and adventure riding recently, mostly in a 15-year-old Hein Gericke jacket ...

August 12, 2019

Mokka's Electric Cycle

Arpi from Budapest based Mokka Cycles has been bucking trends since we first met him at our early shows, in both Lo...

August 09, 2019

Suzuki Katana - Ride Report

I hadn't even mastered a balance bike in 1981. In fact back then I couldn't even evacuate my own bowels properly wi...

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