Chops and customs’ve been bought by folk who haven’t built them themselves since time immemorial – that’s how most bike-building folk fund their next project, by selling off the one they’ve just built. I can remember seeing an ad in the Smalls in an early BSH for a mildly custom BSA A10 that I really, really wanted but, being just a spotty yoof with less disposable income than Mahatma Ghandi, I couldn’t stump up the required £175… wish you could still get ’em for that nowadays, don’t you?
Sorry, I’ve digressed… since the launch of the famous Internet selling sites, it’s become almost ridiculously easy to buy yourself a custom and that, in the main, is a Good Thing because it means that a whole horde of people who don’t have the required skills, or time, to build one themselves can have a groovy custom bike, and be part of the scene that we know and love. Yeah, it may be defeating the object in a few folks’ eyes, but if you were to take away the option of selling your build to someone else, how long do you think the custom bike scene would’ve really lasted?
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THE SLED
IâM A SEMI-PRO SHED BUILDER, WHO BUILDS UNDER THE NAME DIRTY DICKâS⊠I SAY âSEMIPROâ BECAUSE IâVE ONLY, AT THE TIME OF WRITING, SOLD TWO BIKES (AND, USUALLY, I GET PAID IN BEER FOR ANY OTHER WORK I DO).
THE CHIEF
I BOUGHT MY ENFIELD, A 2001 350 BULLET, IN SHROPSHIRE IN JUNE 2019, WITH JUST 11,000 MILES ON THE CLOCK. IT WAS IN TRIALS TRIM, BUT I ALREADY HAD IN MY HEAD WHAT I WANTED TO DO WITH IT â MAKE IT INTO A â50S-STYLE CUSTOM, BASED LOOSELY AROUND AN INDIAN SCOUT THAT IâD SEEN PICTURES OF.
MADE O'GUBBINS
OVER THE LAST YEAR OR SO, MANY OF USâVE HAD TO FOREGO THE JOY OF SEARCHING FOR PARTS AT AUTO-JUMBLES, SHOWS AND BREAKERâS YARDS, RELYING ON EITHER THE HIT-AND-MISS OF INTERNET AUCTION SITES, OR TURNING TO OUR OWN STOCK OF PARTS, WHEN LOOKING AT BUILDING OR MODIFYING A BIKE.
BUDGET BOBBER
PEOPLE ALWAYS SAY CUSTOM BIKESâRE EXPENSIVE, THAT ONLY THE RICH CAN HAVE âEM, BUT IF YOU REALLY WANT ONE THEREâS ALWAYS A WAYâŠ
LEAF IT OUT
THE SUZUKI LS650 IS PERHAPS BEST KNOWN FOR HAVING ONE OF THE LEAST SUITED AND MOST RANDOM MODEL NAMES IN MOTORCYCLING HISTORY â THE SAVAGE.
SIZE O
I DECIDED I NEEDED A BIKE FOR MYSELF AS A KEEPER (RATHER THAN THE USUAL BUILD IT, SELL IT, FUND THE NEXT ONE), BUT TIME AND FUNDS WERE GOING TO GET TIGHT. I WANTED A â60S/â70S-STYLE HARDTAIL WITH A DECENT-SIZED MOTOR, SINGLE OR TWIN, AND SOMETHING I DIDNâT HAVE TO DO ANY FRAME MODIFICATIONS TO.
LITTLE VICTORIES
SOME FOLK SAY WORKâS A NECESSARY EVIL, OTHERS MAKE THE MOST OF THEIR SITUATION. A GOOD FRIEND ONCE SAID TO ME THAT ITâS THE LITTLE VICTORIES THAT COUNT WHEN AT WORK, USING THEIR MACHINERY TO MAKE BIKE PARTS, BLAGGING FREE STATIONARY, OR JUST HAVING A POO ON THEIR TIMEâŠ
BACK TO THE EIGHTIES!
AFTER THE STYLISTIC EXCESSES OF THE 1970S, THE 1980S SAW A KIND OF DIRECTION CHANGE IN CUSTOM BIKE BUILDING â ONE WHICH RESULTED IN NO SMALL PART FROM THE ABUNDANCE OF FAST, RELIABLE FOUR-CYLINDER MOTORCYCLES FROM THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN.
APPLE
MY GOAL WAS TO CREATE A CAFÃ RACER WITH STYLING FROM THE FIFTIES â ROUND CURVES THATâD MAKE IT POP.
3 DIRT DIGGERS
OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS DIRT DIGGERS, HELD AT THE EDDIE WRIGHT SPEEDWAY STADIUM IN SCUNTHORPE, HAS BECOME THE NUMBER ONE, ALL-COMERS-WELCOME BIKE RACE IN THE UK.
