See See Motorcycles

Thor Drake is our kind of man. Racer, bike and art show organiser, custom bike builder and now bike shop/coffee shop owner. He's a do-er. He's also a Smoking Seagull and soon to be stockist of Sideburn magazine. What a diamond.
This is his shop in Portland, Oregon (a place I've got to visit soon). That's the most 'prog' coffee machine I've ever seen.
Go to See See Motorcycles and buy a Sideburn with you morning go-go juice. G

Chiaravalli Art

Andrea Chiaravalli from Milano sent this. Fantastic, eh? Below is his bike. G

Here some photos about my 883R made by Mr.Talamo years ago...based on stock 883r a race bike street legal!
ciao, Andrea

What could possibly go wrong?

I started racing about the same time as big Stu, but he's had a few breaks. He's ready for another comeback.

Hi Gary
Thanks for issue #10 and the stickers . High lights for me are the articles by Dan Walsh and Jason , with the others close behind.

I've enclosed a before (below) and after of the bike I'll be riding this year. It's an Ebay special, ex-field bike that had been used and abused . Honda spent a few bob developing a bike to race thousands of miles across deserts , so I reckoned it'd be ideal for 8 laps of a speedway track. Not at all overweight , or too big with suspension that'd cope with jumps at top speed .I thought it showed potential for £720, and deserved a better life.
Co-Built waved their magic wand at it over the winter.
Can't make the practice at Rye House , so after owning it for 6 months the first time I'll ride it will be at Leicester next week. Shake-downs are for pussies, I say. What could possibly go wrong?
Cheers , and see you next week
Stu

Bad Kat

Sideburn collaborator and part of Rollerburn's art show, Nicola Rowlands got in touch to say...

Hi Sideburn!
I have just done a neckerchief that I thought may be of some interest to you guys/your readers.
Hope you’re both well.
X nicola x

Sideburn's own Future Sailor Ben says 'I hate cats but I'd wear one - you can quote me on that.' G

Return of the Living Dead

(from my arch rival Jamie #29)
JC: Hey Ben, better get the plastic golf club out mate, The Bastard lives!!!
Just managed to have my first go since spending the last six months rebuilding it.. Went to a local industrial estate. The thing is EVIL. It's loud enough to make my eardrums bleed and is a total bloody mentalist. It scared the living shit out of me. In a very good way. It wheelies off the throttle like a rabid jack russel surrounded by sausages... Makes my Fire Blade feel like a moped. It will be insane on the dirt. I can't believe I actually managed to finish it in time. See you at Rye House Sunday! hopefully I'll have my new stunt cage fitted by then.

BP: whilst my old dog is blowing a cloud of sawdust out of its arse and coughing from the damp winter's neglect in my garden shed, you will already have embedded yourself in the crash barrier on turn one. I'll just have to hope that your nitrous oxide doesnt ignite until after I trundle past - if my bakerlite 5 year-old tyres can get any grip at all.

JC: Don't talk it down Ben, that shiny new Apico clutch lever you've fitted to the Euroshitter has got to be worth a good 10bhp.

BP: It would be but I haven't even fitted that yet.
Err Jamie, did anybody tell you it's only a practice jolly tomorrow?

JC: Remember I built the bike myself. It'll probably only last a couple of laps before I explode in a cloud of zip ties, electrical tape and bent valves...
When it was on the dyno last week the fuel tap, float bowls and petrol cap all exploded at once, covering the dyno bloke in smoking petrol.. He cut it just before he was turned into a raging fireball. He wasn't impressed. The bike is evil and it doesn't care if it takes itself out in it's hunger for total devastation...
It eats children's toys for breakfast and goes into a death rage if it sees anything with iggle piggle on it..

Star Twin XS

Tidy XS650 being built by Star Twin. BP

Triumph Daytona

So, more people turn up to see a school soccer game than the Daytona 200 nowadays, but there have been amazing finale's to the last couple of years (see it below). Jason Di Salvo nearly won this year's while wearing Nixon replica leathers on a 1970 tribute Daytona 675.
The same day I was riding this Triumph for my day job. Can you guess what it is yet? G

Rye House Practice This Sunday

Spectators are free to come in and snoop around the pits, ask questions, see what they need to do to race in the Sideburn classes at Dirt Quake. It's an easy ride out into Hertfordshire for Londoners. There's a pub on the canal right outside too.

There are a few places left to ride too.

Practice runs from 10 till 3-ish. This is the postcode EN11 0EH. G

Photo: Church of Choppers

Xtravue Goggles

We love finding the odd short run of stuff to sell in the webshop. We turned up these new, old stock British Bob Heath Xtravue goggles. These are loved in Japan and Ben, Mick and I are all having a pair, so there aren't many left. Get your own Xtravue goggles. G

We've also got new Get Thee Behind Me Satan stickers designed by Chris Watson. Free with every order. Great for bikes, cars, vans, toolboxes and notepads.

Scrambled

Great video of Icon rider Ernie Vigil on a stock Triumph. I've never heard a bike scream in agony like this. Don't buy a used Scrambler from this man.

Don't forget we have Icon's top man in Europe, GuyGuy, coming from France to perform at Dirt Quake. G