Swedish Flat Track

From Patric at Belladonna Trackers:
"Saturday, September 22 Mellan 1400-1700 runs Sweden's first sanctioned Flat track racing at Nyköping. FMX daredevils meet MX riders face Long the bane World Champion, Ice racing drivers, back champions, speedway pro, motard elite. Ultimate racing that will prove who is the meanest drivers on two wheels. There are 24 riders running 3 heats each, 8, in each heat for 6 laps, concluding with an A, B, C, finals. During the day Rack Arty trail display and Sweden's leading FMX team Skilled FMX showcases its spectacular mini flips landing on flat ground after a backflip. Flat-track and FMX Sweden are working to pave the way for two outsider sports in Sweden. The aim of the events is to create a platform for future Swedish championships." [apologies for any lost-in-(Google)translation info] BP

Swedish Flat Track

The Belladonna Trackers guys stopped romping in their underground Stockholm dungeon long enough to go out to one of Sweden's many speedway ovals for some dirt track fun. And Jan-Willem and Tom from the Dutch Brothers drove all the way from Switzerland (a loooong way) to give them lessons and tasters on their bikes.

Our friend Marcus, of Marcus Moto Design, went along and said this...

It was cool to see a real flattrack bike ride a track! Thanks to the Dutch Bros who brought 2 bikes, did some races together with speedway and motocross riders on 450 crossers. They let the riders try their bikes and everyone had a blast! My 4 year old boy was stoked! 
 I hope that this is the start for the sport in Sweden and we can see built-it-yourself bikes as the ones in the UK. 
 Hopefully we will have more of these official training sessions for flat track in Sweden this year. Belladonna will then have their bikes ready and hopefully a handful others!
Marcus

Photos above by Belladonna, below by Marcus.

Swedish Sauce

Belladonna have been making a raucous noize for some time and finally the country that has a L o n g history of speedway has woken up to the fact that flat track might be fun too. Belladonna have just built their first budget flat tracker - based on a Honda XR600, and plan to baptize it with fire at a new practice series they are setting up this year. Contact partscreative@gmail.com if you're up for it. BP

Belladonna Love Warriors

Belladonna Trackers in Stockholm supplied some memorable shots of one their Love Warriors for SB6. This is Leeloo modelling a pink Dick hooded sweat and Dave T-shirt, both customised by Belladonna.
THANKS GUYS!
More from the Belladonna Trackers guys in future Sideburns.

We have very limited number of the Dave T-shirt left and some Dick hooded sweats (though you need to pul them over your head, they don't have a zip, Leeloo did that herself). We even have one pink small. Check sizes and colours here - Sideburn webshop. GI
Photos: Vladimir Rodjenko

4 Versus 2

Thanks to Belladonna. BP

Can't stop the Cretins from rocking...

To promote their new full-face helmet, US bike clothing company Icon have made an ad that shows the lid, the excellently named Speed Cretin, in action on a wall of death. I don't think the full video is out yet, but Hell for Leather have a taster. That's where we got these photos.
Icon commissioned this mutant Yam TT500 to co-star in the ad. It's part-flat tracker, part-supermoto, part-Bososoku bike. The whole concept certainly beats some 'model' with two-day stubble giving it the blue steel that most bike clothing companies use.
This paint reminds me a lot like Bellodonna's SR, that features in their advert in SB3. GI

Belladonna Trackers

Nice shot of the Patric from Belladonna Trackers, Stockholm on the SR500 featured in Sideburn 3. He's in his old Stockholm Rockets Speedway kevlars.
More Stockholm news - Sivletto are now stocked up with SB3. Here's Per and Fredrik getting high on the supply. GI

Sign Riting SR500

Nice work from the deviants at Belladonna in Stockholm.