Kickback

Renowned motorcycle journalist and former Built and Classic Bike magazine editor Gary Pinchin has joined forces with Lorne Cheetham, the visionary behind the acclaimed Kickback Custom Show, to launch a stunning new magazine celebrating the art, craft, and lifestyle of custom-built motorcycles. As a subscriber, you’ll receive each issue before it hits the newsstands - delivered free to your device.

KICKBACK

THE SUMMER OF ’26 • Great summer. Great events. And now it’s time to sit back and enjoy a collection of the great custom bikes from around the world in our first anniversary issue of the mag

VISION OF LUST. HEAT OF SPEED • BMW Motorrad lets its design team loose to explore the full potential of its six-cylinder power unit, way beyond the expectations of touring bike functionality

WHAT THE FORK? • El Lobo Cycles play the long game in creating another award-winning chopper

INSANE BOARDTRACKER BANGS HEADS AT BIKER FEST • It takes a lot to impress a legend like Carl Fogarty. But then there’s a lot of motorcycle in this S&S-based, AMD-winning marvel, picked by the WSB icon as top dog at this year’s Italian event

WELCOME TO THE TERRORDOME! • Motociclette Mannaia’s butch, 2300cc, V-twin ‘BSA’ boardtracker could be public enemy number one. This AMD-winning build is so terrifying to ride that it puts the fear of god into even its owner

They sell SANCTUARY • This Japanese company is known worldwide for its radical resto-mod sports bikes. Now they’ve discovered the joy of six, delivering these two stunning examples of Honda’s engineering marvel known as the CBX1000 – but probably not as Soichiro envisaged

THE RED ARROW • Spanish bike builder Pepo Rosell, aka XTR Pepo, stripped back and hopped up this Husqvarna Vitpilen. And now it really flies...

INDEPENDENCE THINKING • Six engine platforms. Six of the greatest artisan custom builders. Six iconoclastic bikes. S&S Cycle celebrates 250 years of American Independence and individualism with their latest tour

GIVING A SPORTSTER THE BEANS • For an extra dark roast and a real buzz, this iced coffee company turned to a 1200 Harley for their latest promo tool

FULL-BORE FIREPOWER AT TOBACCO DOCK • Enfield custom builders threw everything at their European Build-Off creations, but one Shotgun blew the judges away

THE MUSHMAN RUNNER • What if Bud Ekins had built Harvey Mushman an XS650 desert sled?

SPEED AGE • Hot rod and drag racing pioneers, racing what we now affectionately call ‘jalopies’, are remembered each year in the UK with the ‘Flathead Meltdown’ . Kickback takes a trip back in time

THE MALLE MILE • It’s billed as a celebration of the speed, adventure, music, and art of motorcycle culture. It’s much, much more than that…

CELEBRATING STURGIS • New Indian Chief Vintage Sturgis, SD Edition honours Indian Motorcycle’s foundational role in the origins of America’s most legendary biker rally

The DARKEST HARLEY EVER ... • Inspired by post-war customisers and the spirit of Sturgis, ‘Deadwood’ aims to deliver stripped-down vintage style

La liberte n’a qu’une odeur… celle de l’essence! (Freedom has only one smell… that of gasoline!) • From the skip to the strip. From rubbish to racer. This French outfit take a pair of battered GSX-Rs and create two very different resto-mods to live up to their mantra of building ‘Xtreme Kustoms for Fuckin’ Riders’

PROTOTYPING from PIXELS • Haxch Moto’s project 8TT begins to takes shape

Day of The Jackal • Poulson Creative’s Scrambler gets a military makeover

The CFMoto challenge • Having taken on a new franchise, Cooperb are wasting no time in taking one of the Chinese brand’s new 450MTs to the ultimate proving ground – an adventure bike...