Captain Highside is one of the best things about the UK short track series. The Skooter Farm star rider is one of the fastest riders, on a KTM/TransAlp hybrid he built himself (see Sideburn 2). He never has a bad race and he is always super-calm.
He has just come back from a long holiday in Australia. These are his shots and his message (and a review of the Book of Flat Track we're selling - see the right of this page)...
Hi GI, Great to meet up at the weekend and wheel my bike under the Skooter Farm race tent. The sun shone too ( but how is it we managed to have a muddy race?).
I've attached a few pics from my Oz trip. The dirttrack meet I went to at Allen Park featured none other than a "mechanic" called Wayne Gardner and his racer son who was haulin'. I also called at the Church of Deus and after mentioning Sideburn
( along with my dashing personality ) managed to obtain a fair bit of discount on a great flat white along with a few shirts! Anyone in Sydney has to pay a visit.
The reprint of The Complete Book of Flat Track Racing deserves due credit too. My dog eared original copy I bought in the 80's is probably one of the reasons I'm on the grid now. The new version is superb, a quick read of the preface will sell it
alone. More a total rewrite of the original it has lots more color ( USA remember) on great paper but is still routed in the wild racing of the 70's. Everyone buy it now, build a bike over the winter and come racin' in 2010!
See you at the Chris Carr Nite Captain Highside.
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