Sideburn #12 Launch Party
Who’d’ve thought the launch of Sideburn Magazine’s twelfth issue would’ve caused such a ruckus in the heart of London’s hipster-filled Shoreditch on a cold, wet, Thursday night, or had so many people jet-in from abroad just to ...
Sam Christmas
You’ll already have seen Sam Christmas’s photos, whether it’s this snap for a Davida ad, or cool reportage of the Kingdom of Kicks crew, events like Sideburn’s Dirt Quake or any number of blogs, websites and magazines, ...
Pride & Glory – The Rocker’s Jacket
Born in 1966 Horst Friedrich is a reknown photographer who celebrates counter culture and tribes, producing extraordinary photo books featuring fashion & lifestyle beyond the mainstream. Horst’s freelance photo-journalism has been featured in Stern, Geo, the New ...
Pete’s Chicken Shack Ducati
Pete Juzl, otherwise known as Cutter and posting as The Chicken Shack Ducati has been around since the start of The Bike Shed, and it’s shed builders like Pete that inspired us to make the BSMC what ...
Untitled Movie Sneak Peek
When uber-trendy media company Blink Giant Media approached Adam & Co at Untitled Motorcycles to make a short feature starring their bikes it was hard to say no, (despite a pretty out-there storyboard), so, a coupla months ...
On Any (Spiritual) Sunday
It’s finally time for Tim & Kev at Spirit to throw open the doors of the Pig Shed to friends, family and smelly bikers, with BBQ food, riding, laughs and probable chaos. The guys have built some ...
BSMC July Meet
Finally the sun came out, the emails went around and the BSMC got to have their first proper summer hook up of the year. This pub already has a pretty regular Thursday night meet for cafe racers ...
MotoCicletta July Results…
Motocicletta‘s Simmo has had another blinding weekend of race results, and they are rightfully proud to see their little air cooled machine leading a pack of water cooled four cylinder bikes. It really is astonishing to see ...
Ducati Sport Classic goes Racing
Founded recently in September 2011, by Stephen Littlehales & Steve Marino in Melbourne, Motocicletta is an online store specialising in performance parts. They are the official Australian NCR Centre offering the new NCR M4, and M4 One ...
Rudy’s Simple Pleasure
Ok, so there’s enough Sport Classic cafe racers on this website, but what can I say, we love these bikes and they are rather good, and very pretty too. We come across some stunning takes on these ...
PS1000 visits home
Belgian Ducatisti, Koen, wanted to take his limited edition Ducati Paul Smart 1000LE back to it’s birthplace in Italy. The bike has been his labour of love in recent times, so having perfected the work started by ...
Old & New Extremes
Most of the projects on websites like The Shed, EXIF, Pipeburn & Co are a mix of old ideas and modern engineering, but this lovely machine takes the biscuit, combining the extremes of a modern (ish) ...
EXIF’s Chris Hunter
You just can’t ignore the influence of BikeEXIF on the cafe, brat-style, flattracker and modern custom scene. Chris Hunter’s personal passion for beautifully built and photographed custom bikes has turned an engineering art form, into a creative and ...
Cafe Racer Dreams’ Pedro Garcia
Cafe Racer Dreams in Spain have been turning out some stunningly beautiful creations over the last couple of years, each with a subtlety and attention to detail that puts them in the superleague of custom builders, and ...
Inman in the Shed
As the mad genius behind last year’s Rollerburn, Sideburn & Sideblog, and with Dirt Quake coming soon, we wanted to get a little deeper under the skin of the outspoken bike journo and editor, Gary Inman, so ...
Buckets & Pisspots
It’s not often we post a pictures-only thread, but when it comes to the subject of what covers yer cranium, sometimes style (or lack thereof) speaks for itself. I asked the bikeshed crew what lids they collected, ...
Guzzi Love…
I’ve been obsessing about Moto Guzzi cafe racer’s for a while now. It all started in about 1991 with an old mate of mine, Murph, a gifted Auzzie action-man, who seemed to go everywhere on a stunning ...
Owning a Pro Custom
Spence is the lucky owner of Tim & Kev’s no-compromise S6 Triumph Scrambler. He’s owned plenty of proper bikes over the years so is plenty qualified to give us a clear picture of what it’s like owning ...
Retro Sexual
Bikes, pin-ups, ink and retro… What’s not to love? We’re not quite in the calendar market just yet, but if we were I think we’d probably mix it up a little with retro themed pinups, clutching spanners ...
Skid Lid Nirvana
Things are pretty quiet in the world of custom bike building and blogging, so I reckon it’s time for a Christmas post on the subject of gifts… And this year my lovely missus the Dutchess, has decided ...
Purple Passion
Having already showed-off his Shell-Racer inspired Flat tracker on the Shed, Jamie Williams is back with pics of another shed-build, this time based on a Suzuki GN400, …mainly because he couldn’t find a cheap enough SR500 on ...
Custom SR Brothers
I first saw these two bikes at Victory MC last week, buried between other machines while they were being worked on, so I asked Mike – the owner of the white SR (or possibly an XT) – ...
High Voltage
It’s still bloody freezing outside, but while I had a day off it was time for me to get back down to Victory MC and try to install the new Lithium Ion Battery I got from Racing ...
Fuelled by Tea
Give us a go, mister? I really love it when someone randomly sends us a picture of their pride and joy, especially when it looks as good as this. Jamie stumbled into The Shed and realised it ...
Black & Blue
Yes, yes, it’s yet another Ducati Sport Classic cafe racer, but aren’t they pretty? – and this one is another beauty that just has to be featured somewhere on the interweb for people to drool over. This ...
Mojo Duc
Guido (MojoDuc on the forums) grew up around exotic cars and bikes. His dad always had a few at a time, with classics like the Superseven and ’56 Caddilac to a restored Morris Minor Traveller, and his ...
Sean’s First Cafe Build
Sean is a regular, 40-something, bike-loving guy from Bristol, who grew up around his dad’s bikes, including BSA & Triumphs, so the Cafe Racer/Rocker style was already in his blood when he decided to build his first ...
Tim’s V-Twin Thing
I’ve just sold my Fireblade and gone back in time, I’ve picked up a really clean Ducati 900SS FE. The chap I bought it off has had it from new and it came from a collection of ...
UMC in Motion
Passionate newbie bike-builder and pro-snapper Damian McFadden hooked up with Adam & Co at Untitled Motorcycles recently, keen to take pics of more than just static bikes (which he is also rather good at). ..His own biking ...
Baz’s Bonnie Rear
Our resident Art Director extraordinaire, Barry, has been getting his seat fettled by the guys at Untitled Motorcycles, with a slimline, narrow look. His Bonnie has already had a lot of work done by the legendary Bob ...