100% Biker – August 2019

http://www.100-biker.com | issue 250 | 100% Biker | 7

EDITORIAL

250. How on earth did that happen?
     But happen it did. This is the 250th
     issue of 100% Biker, a magazine that
     has grown over the years to become
     the best and most comprehensive
     custom motorcycle title in the country,
     representing every aspect of the
     custom scene from the folk building
     in sheds to the most prestigious of
     builders, from the one day pub shows to
     rallies both traditional and not so trad,
     to the top shows in the world.
     Over those years we reckon we have
     featured around two thousand bikes
     and as many – and probably more –
     shows, rallies and rides. Of course, we
     could have counted every bike and
     every event in every issue, but trust
     me, with my innumeracy, that might
     have taken the next 250 issues and I
     would still have arrived at half a dozen
     different numbers at the end. (If you
     feel like taking on the challenge, please
     don’t let me stop you!).
     This is also our twentieth year, our
     twentieth birthday and my, didn’t those
     twenty years speed by? You will all
     know what we mean. Over those last
     twenty lives time will not have stood
     still for any of you (except perhaps for
     the odd reader who lives in a cave). You
     will have met new loves or celebrated
     more years with old loves; you will
     have changed jobs and houses and
     maybe even countries; how many of
     you are still riding the same bike you
     had twenty years ago? Not many I will
     wager, but I bet more than a few of you
     are getting a little misty-eyed at what
     you were riding in 1999 (and possibly
     muttering “I should never have sold
     that one!”). Some of you will have had
     children and some of you grandchildren

• some of you both within those two
  decades. You may have less hair than
  twenty years ago or, given the trend for
  big beards, more hair. You are different
  people to those you were twenty years
  ago ... and yet you’re still the same. For
  I doubt one of you feels older than you
  did back then, no matter what life may
  have thrown at you in the interim.
  Many years ago, I read an article by
  the late great satirist Alan Coren. He
  spoke of how, as a twelve-year-old, he
  had visited the Festival of Britain and
  gone up the Shot Tower and, as kids
  do, spat off the top of it. Twenty-three
  years later, as he wrote that piece, he
  said, “Tonight, I feel as if the spit hasn’t
  hit the ground yet.” And I know exactly
  how he feels. Like I say, 250 issues? How
  DID that happen. But what is exciting
  is that there is so much more to come.
  Here’s to the next twenty years and the
  next 250 issues.
  BLUE

8 NEWS

Twisted Iron, a very big barbecue and a

descent into Hades.

12 PRODUCTS

Splendid new stuff.

20 RACE THE WAVES

Bridlington doesn’t get any more glamorous

than this!

26 BIKER GEAR

Blinded by the light...

28 FTH BIKE NIGHT

Choppers and skateboards.

36 THE BIG KNOCK

Off for a sniff of diesel!

56 TRIKE DESIGN DAY

Hank throws open his doors.

72 ADVENTURE BEFORE

DEMENTIA

One of the best little rallies around.

82 INTO THE VALLEY

Altogether now, ‘Ahoy ahoy!’... Oh, you’re all

so young!

92 MANCHESTER ROCK &

BIKE FEST

What do you call an owl who is good at

escaping? Hoodini. Sorry...

100 HANDBUILT SHOW

Texas rangers.

104 EVENTS

Everything you need to know for everywhere

you want to go.

106 100% LEGAL

Our bi-monthly look at all matters legal.

108 SHEDHEAD

Blackjack takes up his seat on the cabinet.

110 BELTANE BIKE FEST

From Brough to Bettie.

114 TAILPIECE

Grav inspects his new back end.

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