Birmingham Motorcycle T-Shirts & Apparel

Small Heath, Birmingham. In the 1950s, one in every four motorcycles sold anywhere on earth rolled out of the factory floor here. The BSA works - Birmingham Small Arms Company - were the biggest motorcycle manufacturer the world has ever seen, and the terraced streets around them are still there, still recognisably the same red brick. When riders gather at the NEC each autumn for the UK's largest motorcycle show, a lot of them are quietly paying homage to that history. This collection is built for them: the Brummie rider, the British classic enthusiast, the Midlands lifer. Original Birmingham biker shirts, printed on heavyweight ring-spun cotton, shipped to riders in over 70 countries.

Six Tonnes of Bronze and a Factory That Changed Motorcycling

The mark a Birmingham rider wears is the Bull. Six tonnes of bronze standing in the middle of the city, head lowered, shoulders set, drawn as raw metallic form with the weight of the thing coming through every line. Around it we laid in the roads and landmarks a rider here actually knows: the layered concrete flyovers of Spaghetti Junction stacked against the sky, a narrowboat working through Gas Street Basin under Victorian brick, and the parallel-twin silhouette of a classic British machine from the Aston component yards that helped build this city's motorcycle trade. The banner carries one word, Brummie, the name this city's people gave themselves. Print it big on the back or drop it to a chest badge; either way a rider reads it on sight.

Materials & Who It's For

This one was made for the Brummie rider buying hometown pride, the British classic motorcycle enthusiast drawn to the Small Heath heritage angle, and the Midlands rider who makes the NEC show a fixture every autumn. It also works as a gift for anyone who knows what Birmingham built and wants to wear it. Tees are heavyweight 5.3oz ring-spun cotton, side-seamed and pre-shrunk. Hoodies are 8.0oz cotton-poly fleece with double-needle stitching at the stress points. Caps use raised embroidery on a structured six-panel. Every piece is checked by hand before it ships and tracked to your door in over 70 countries.