Tuesday 24 November 2009

Stevie Coles

Stevie Coles, UK's short track #28, IS Rollerball. His bollox are bigger than those stainless steel lumps used to score points in the 1975 film of the same name (judgement here is made from witnessing his riding style rather than peeking down his frontage). I made some snaps of him and his machine that runs on a fuel mix of pink diesel and Nitromors paint-stripper, last year at Scunthorpe, intending to do a Sideburn magazine feature, but his mutoid Honda Bros (or Hawk as it's called in the States), has since morphed into something even more brutal. We've already got enough material for SB#5, so it will have to be SB#6, by which time it will have probably grown teeth and three heads. BP

10 comments:

Dan said...

Fuckin terrific Bros. 650 or 400? In my head, he bungees a stickered topbox onto the tail and despatches it round London town during the week. Race on Sundays, more drops than Santa on Mondays, and hang that arse out round Hyde Park Corner....

Suerte, DW

Sideburn Magazine said...

che lynch DW
(Having lived & ridden in both London & Amsterdam), it is my dream when I am a millionaire (ha ha) to organize a dispatch rider GP, & a pizza delivery boy GP. The rules are obvious, the entertainment value priceless.
BP

Anonymous said...

you have mis'judged my apparent "big balls" for plain ol fen stupidity!!.
oi jus gets on and turns the handlebar thingy!!

OUTTACONTROLLA said...

I like to think he is bolted to the bike with the throttle set to 9000 rpm and the clutch auto releases when the tape goes up !
When you look into the visor it is the steely glare of Jaws from a bond movie !!!!
#59

Anonymous said...

lol!. thats jus me trying to do my mert lawell impression from on any sunday!!.
hey stevie, shame bout the new noise regs, gonna miss ridin behind them 2 sonic cannons on ur bike. shame.
stevie 28

OUTTACONTROLLA said...

Got my boom box for the mile to put on - hope it passes !
Pity cos that was one of my fave things about the series - no noise check nazis .
Some wanker musta squinnied bout it .
Rules is fer breakin.
#59

Sideburn Magazine said...

Well Stevie #28
no one made any regulations about spiked gloves did they? so you can still bust heads next season.
BP

Anonymous said...

ive been waiting patiently for the unveiling if your race bike on ere ben, are you coming out to play with us nxt yr?!!!.
stevie

Sideburn Magazine said...

Stevie#28
- I'm definitely coming out to play next season, wether it be on the SB FT project bike, my CCM with wets, or a Raleigh Griffter with some lolly sticks flicking the spokes.
It's not what you've got it's how you ride it.
BP

Anonymous said...

and so say all of us!!.
the more the merrier, i think wi the co-built boys, making new bikes aswell, we should have good numbers for my favourite class. bring on the thunderbikes!!!
stevie