Bikes in the City Part Two: Rat Bikes
They say that in London you’re never more than six feet away from a rat. Gary Inman – Sideburn Magazine publisher/editor and aficionado of biking subcultures remembers a lost coterie of dark clad urban rebels. Where once motorcycles offered the working person an intense, but usually manageable, injection of rebellion at virtually every opportunity, there […]
The Motorbike Test
Growing up, I was surrounded by motorbikes all the time and from a very young age; my Mum would take me to local egg runs where there’d be convoys of biker after biker all donning their leather waistcoats and big motors. My first experience on the back of a bike was when I was 8-years […]
Honda Motocompo: the cool commuter
Riding the current wave of retro classics are 1980s cars. But if you want a cool set of two wheels rather than four, hop on the bike that looks like a box, the Honda Motocompo. The 1980s. Brought back into focus thanks to smash hit TV series such as Stranger Things and movies like Ready […]
Honda CB1000R
Honda calls the CB1000R a ‘neo sports cafe’. It’s a fresh take on cafe racers, those so very 1960s, Quadrophenia-style rides. This, however, is much more modern and ‘The Matrix’. You can imagine Keanu riding it, bullet-time, in a sleek depiction of the future. Neo’s Neo, if you like. Because the CB1000R has a detuned […]
Kawasaki KL
‘Why don’t we have both?’ says the young girl, shrugging a pair of pixelated shoulders, then the whole town celebrates. As GIFs go, this looping snatch of taco ad has long since peaked, troughed and boomeranged back to retro classic status but it still makes a mighty fine point: it’s no good limiting our options. […]
Five bikes that aren’t tailored only to men
A few years ago, I was a passenger on a friend’s Harley for a long ride through Santa Barbara, California. There’s really something special about being on a motorcycle, you’re part of the whole experience in a way you don’t get in a car. Ever since then, I’ve been in love with the idea of […]
Peter Hickman Interview
As it’s a superbike special this month, we thought what better way to celebrate that than to interview one of the British Superbike Championship’s (BSB) rising super stars Peter Hickman. The guy is on an upward spiral. Last week he won the Thruxton BSB Championship, then the Dundred 150 on Thursday, as well as two […]
Gemma Harrison from all-female motorcyle group VC London talks bikes
More and more females are jumping on two-wheels, and why the hell not?! We talk to female motorcycle group VC London to see what they love about the UK motorbike scene. Danni Bagnall: So, just what is VC London all about? Gemma Harrison: We started out as three friends (me, Namin Cho and Mai Storni) […]
An interview with Inglorious Motorcycles’ Samuel Evans
We join Danni Bagnall as she invites custom motorbike legends Inglorious Motorcycles to tell us how they started, and what they think of the UK two-wheel community. Danni Bagnall: What projects do you currently have on the go? Samuel Evans: I started Inglorious Motorcycles at the start of 2014, when I turned 23. I have […]
Honda Classics: Motorbike Spotting with Mel Tormé
mid century bike spotting with a lesser known king of cool and some Honda classics