CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF THE NATIONAL CHOPPER CLUB M O C . R E I K B - 0 0 1 . W W W LETTERS // NEWS // HOW TO // PRODUCTS // LETTERS // GIRLS // JOKES // EVENTS // BIKES FOR SALE MEGA RUN THE NCC'S AMAZING BIRTHDAY PARTY! LEAF�SPRUNG LOVEL Y! ZX10 KWAK TWIZZLE’S LATEST SPORTSTER CREATION! ISSUE 175 TRIUMPH BONNEVILLE FJ1200 YAMAHA CHOPPER GSX-R 1100 SUZUKI ONLY £ 3.85 Nige Bamber's classic chop! Super-tough revamped rigid! Black & minimal streetfighter! NEXT ISSUE ON SALE 19TH DEC I S T H H ’ S 36 THIS N T M O E R MONTH’S C O V COVER BIKE K E It’s the eternal I E nightmare of the GENERAL ENQUIRIES B A G E P professional custom Jazz Publishing, 1 Marcher Court, S E 3 6 Sealand Road, Chester, CH1 6BS, UK. bike builder; no sooner ☎ 01244 881888 have you built yourself eMail: [email protected] a bike than some bugger web: www.100-biker.co.uk or www.jazzpublishing.co.uk comes along and wants to buy it off you! 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They weren’t kidding… T HIS M ONT H’S F E A T U R E D E V E N T S E E P AGE 60 This year, in case you don’t know, is the 40th birthday of the National Chopper Club. And over the last 40 years they’ve been building and riding custom bikes; proper custom bikes that both look amazing, and are also rideable. Rideability is a big thing with the NCC; their bikes have to be be capable of dealing with the miles or they’re no use to man nor beast. The Club do four Runs a year, one on each of the four main Bank Holidays, to different sites all around the country, and also abroad too, so there’s UFF no point in having a purely ‘show’ HER ST machine; it might look good, but if it E’S OT can’t cover the ground… IS ISSU And over the years they’ve built some TH of the most extraordinary customs to 67 MAG CAMPAIGNS grace this planet. Everyone will have The latest news from the world of riders’ rights! their favourites, of course, and some of mine, to name just a few, are Hank’s 68 EVENTS ground-breaking ‘The Fly’ for instance, The most comprehensive events listing around! and Twizzle’s ‘Enigma’, Jim from Essex’s insanely long ‘Malice in Wonderland’ 73 BIKER HAUNTS (which I actually rode… Jim, yer a Pubs, cafes and clubs for you to visit. loony!), Wizz from Lincs’ stunning prismic-tank GSX-R streetfighter (a bike 76 ROGUES GALLERY I still desire almost carnally) and… well, Your life in pictures. you get the picture. They, as a club, have built more bikes that I’ve wanted 78 BUFFOONERY to take home than anyone else and, as The best (and rudest) jokes page in any magazine! Beano says elsewhere this issue, I get a slightly giddy feeling going to Chopper 80 BIKEJUMBLE Club events cos, speaking as a custom 6 4 Buy or sell bikes and bits… for free! bike freak, they’re the closest thing to Heaven you can get. NEWS 8 82 TAIL PIECE So for this issue of Biker, we’re The latest from the world of biking. Our regular column from the celebrating their 40th anniversary 10 PRODUCTS legendary Rick Hulse! by bringing you five Club bikes, and a shedload of pics from two of their Tasty stuff to spend yer wonga on! biggest events, Diamond Day and the 12 BIKER GEAR August Mega-Run, as well as a few of 76 their more grassroots ones too. The Now that you’ve got nice new trews, you’ll be bikes we’ve picked might not be the needing a jacket, won’t you? Suits you, sir! showiest ones out there, but they are 14 BULGING SACK representative of the diversity of styles that they embrace—no two Chopper Your letters, written by you. Club bikes are the same and the ones 45 SHEDHEAD we’re showing you exemplify that. So, we hope you enjoy this special Continuing his work on the dark arts of issue and will join me in raising a glass resurrection! 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YOUTHBIKE PLEA Phil Morris, who has one of the best collections of National Youthbike are looking for old racing motorcycles in the world, will be bringing or abandoned motorcycles for groups of young people to work on one of the 125cc Nastro Azzurro Aprilias on which They seek to encourage young people to Valentino Rossi won the 1997 World Championship, take up motorcycling and engineering, and they do this by giving them old and to the 2014 Thundersprint, which’ll be held at Darley battered bikes to try to restore and get Moor over the weekend of May 10–11 running again.