Pro Singles freight train.
Brad Baker, on the Llotd Bros Ducati, was a great 5th overall.
Jake Johnson, chased by Brad Baker and Kenny Coolbeth
42, Bryan Smith back on a Harley came 17th. This is a heat race. 15 Nicole Cheza made the main, came 12th. 59 Willie McCoy came 6th. 24 Logan Myers didn't make the main.
Shawn Baer on the Bonnevile Performance Triumph. Made the main, came 14th.
Mees and Halbert loving banging bars.
Mees 1st, Halbert 2nd, Johnson 3rd.
From Captain Simon:
First up, Astrolites - Play For Keeps. A three-piece (guitar, bass, drums) putting out, in their words, 'original hi-speed rockabilly'. It's that power rockabilly, more akin to The Stray Cats having a bust-up with The Cramps rather than purist Charlie Feathers twang-a-chug. Dick Dale, Duane Eddy, Billy Lee Riley... all in there. You're making yourself a cheese sandwich and this'll make you cut way too much off the cheddar and slice the bread all to cock. It made me run into the next room and punch the living shit out of an imaginary foe. It's that sort of thing. Great for making you feel like you're driving a slammed '37 Ford to a rumble, rather than the Multipla to Tesco. Almost all the tracks are originals written by the band, but a robust cover of Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire injects the urgency of a full-throttle search for a public toilet following an especially potent chilli-fest. Definitely worth a spin.
Next, Duck and Cover - The Pasadena Recordings. This throws you further back, to the Southern USA of the '40s and '50s. Far more mellow, bit of swing, bit of Ernest Tubb-style honky-tonk (and a Hank Williams cover, in fact), some rock 'n' roll. Great cover of Wanda Jackson's 'Funnel of Love'. Pretty authentic sound and apparently recorded on vintage equipment and all that. Now, instead of making me want to fight, this stuff prompts me to grab hold of Mrs P for a bit of impromptu bare-foot front-room dancin'. OK, I call it dancing, for Mrs P it's more of an unfortunate meeting with a twitching, tongue-lolling idiot, but she's very good about it and simply wipes the drool off her clothes and pretends it never happened.
From our eagle eyed Skooter Farm legal department...
From Steve Red Max (above working on his new Norton)...
There I was thinking I couldn't love the Co-Built guys any more than I already do, then this Ian Roxburgh photo turns up. Geoff Co-Built making frames and exhausts in a Sideburn 9 Lives T-shirt. G
My Dutch brethren are getting the street tracker bug. BC has just turned out this tidy CB550 for Jelrik. He did everything apart from the powder coating; that includes the lovely tuck'n'roll seat and tail, with 'Honda' - cut out from an old points cover, inlaid on the top.
Love the scallop paint job too. More details on his new blog 
A few people who read this blog are going out to the TT this year, so it's worth posting news that one of my favourite riders, the Californian Mark Miller has just been signed up to race the Aprilia RSV4 for UK team Splitlath. Mark won the Zero emissions race on the MotoCsysz last year.
UPDATE: Mark got in touch with photos of his new leathers. Keep an eye out for him.
The Springfield TT and Mile is this weekend and we found these AMA Pro Racing photos we hadn't posted to whet your appetites. This is Jake Johnson in his Troy Lee pyjamas.
Indoor short track rules. This is DuQuoin all prepped for the race on April 16, earlier this year.
Nicole Cheza seems to do better on the big tracks. She didn't make the main at DuQuoin.
Robert Pearson styling.
Jared Mees leads Jake Johnson. Jake came third in the main, J-Rod fourth.
Sammy Halbert and Johnny Leiws. This looks like a battle. Sammy was 5th, Johnny 8th.
The podium - Chris Carr in his farewell year shows he's still happy to have a few rounds of fighting in a phone booth. Kenny Coolbeth won. G
From Garrett in Colorado.
My old mate Matt says, 'We've got a spare ticket for The Black Lips at the Brudenell tonight. Do you want it'
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