Win a Mutt

One of stockists, Monday Mo Co (in the West Midlands No-Go area) has a great offer on at the moment. Spend £100 or more with them and you'll get entered into a competition to win one of the neat Mutt 125s. Benny Boneshaker developed this little Chinese made entry level bike. I've ridden on around the green lanes on trials tyres and it's a fun little thing.

They stock Deus, Red Wing, Pike Brothers... It won't be hard to spend £100 if you've got it. It works for online purchases.

Closing date is the end of June... Got to Monday Mo Co. Good luck! G

Career Opportunity

Monday Moto Co is a new shop is opening in Birmingham (West Midlands, not Alabama). We don't know a lot about it, other than one of the owners is Benny Boneshaker, so it's likely to be spot on. It'll sell bikes (including the Mutt), artwork, clobber and they're looking for a store manager.

We currently have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Retail Shop Manager to work in our new store, Monday Mo Co In The Custard Factory, Gibb Street, Birmingham, due to open on 1st September. 

Managing a busy shop which sells retro motorcycles, motorcycle related clothing, parts, accessories and art, you will need to be commercially aware, driven, well organised, and hands on. 

Applicants will ideally have an interest in motorcycles and a general knowledge of the motorcycling scene. So, if you are the kind of person who enjoys being on the shop floor and driving sales through great customer service and is motivated by a challenge and helping to create a new store and build a new brand - apply now! 

Will be approx 35 hrs including weekends 
For more info please email: boneshakerchoppers@hotmail.co.uk or davestroud100@gmail.com


Joe, Davy Crockett hat, really? You're testing the limits of the 'Circle of Cool'

The Drayton Porkchop

Portsmouth creative agency, I Love Dust, worked with highly respected UK chopper builder (and all-round good bloke) Benny Boneshaker to make a basket case old ironhead sportster into cafe racer type of thing they call The Drayton Porkchop. It was the agency's tenth birthday present to themselves.
Check out ilovedust.com for tons of creative inspiration. G

Boneshaker Mutt 125

Super-cool learner bike from Benny Boneshaker. Go here to buy one...

Boneshaker Mutt 125cc with 30 years experience of building custom motorcycles we thought it was high time someone built a small cc learner legal stylish motorcycle, with a love of vintage Harley Davidsons and Triumphs we decided to create a new motorcycle to be a affordable, maintenance free, user friendly machine with classic styling but above all.. it had to be cool. 

We took a lot of styling cues from 1960's Triumph Desert racers and with that in mind we created the 'Mutt' The Mutt is handbuilt in our workshops in rural England and features a 4 stroke 125 cc engine based on the bullet proof Suzuki GN engine built under licence from Suzuki. The frame is a twin shock all steel construction and uses the engine as a stressed member. 

The tank of the Mutt is painted by our in house custom paint specialist in off white and burnt orange with chrome trim and has classic british style tank rubbers. Wide American spec Triumph handlebars with Gran Turismo grips and a Triumph influenced seat provide great handling and comfort and British look whilst the triple plated chrome downpipe and Burgess silencer let out a healthy rumble that makes you feel you are astride a larger capacity motorcycle. 

The Mutt runs 18" wheels front and rear which are shod with Dunlop deep block pattern dirt tyres for that chunky Steve Mqueen style desert racer look (although we can supply your Mutt with different tyres if you prefer, front mudguards are also available but we prefer the stripped down look). A light weight aluminium rear mudguard and 'flexi' rear light complete the desert racer look. These motorcycles are brand new and will be supplied to you registered on a new plate with a tank of fuel and two years warranty. 

The Mutt is £2900 on the road So if you want a cool 125cc motorcycle with retro styling built by people who love, live and breath motorcycles then get in touch with us on 01562730429 or 07913 325297 or email Benny

Greasy Kulture x Boneshaker Day

Fellow British-based independent moto magazine Greasy Kulture had a do at Boneshaker choppers HQ in the West Midlands, so we went along to support the cause.

Plenty of traditional style choppers - that's GKM's bag. Man in fez too.

This bike belongs to one of the guys behind the Eat Dust clothing brand. There are a lot of clothing companies starting up that are hanging their metaphorical hat on motorcycling, but I can't think of one of them that puts in the miles this guy does. He rode over from Belgium for this afternoon meeting, then went home the next day for work. He rides everywhere.
I don't profess to know a ton about the Harley scene, and I know a lot of followers of this blog are in the same boat, but I'll share the bit I learnt. This bike is modified in 'the club style'. The club doesn't refer to The Ivy or Bolton Wanderers, but the modern outlaw patch clubs. Straight bars, muted colours, uprated suspension, twin shocks, tuned engine, bikini fairings. It's a totally different kettle of fish to the traditionally-styled hardtails that filled the car park. These FXR and Dyna Harleys are supposed to be the best long mileage big twins (that aren't full dressers). There, you know as much as me.
I took this photo to show the hi-rise bar clamp, stock clocks and satnav. Again, very different to the predominant traditional choppers.
Anyway, Eat Dust know denim and know how to ride a long way.

Liked this Enfield bobber.

 Mr Greasy Kulture

 Modern Husqvarna-powered hardtail, what a crazy cocktail.

Al from the Skeleton Chop Shop with his Sporster he's converted to run a, I think, Shovelhead non-unit transmission. Don't ask why, ask how? In foreground, photographer Sam Christmas about to stuff his face.

Vincent for sale. Like my mum used to say, if you have to ask how much, you can't afford it.

Boneshaker's HQ is an old mill building, full of Harleys, Indian and wonder.

It wasn't all choppers and bobbers. Cristi, rode down from Manchester on his Paul Smart Replica. I thought he looked a stylish dude, so gave him a Sideburn sticker. 'Thanks,' he said, 'I'll have it but I've already got one.' I love it when some I think looks interesting already buys Sideburn. Well, I like it when anyone buys it. 

The West Midlands, not the West Coast. G

Boneshaker x Fly53

Benny Boneshaker (who was in Sideburn 10 with the Sunday Morning Sportster street scrambler he built for the Black Douglas company) has collaborated with British clothing brand Fly53 to make a line of T-shirts.
They were designed by Fly53's Will Rigg, who is one of Boneshaker's long-term customers and a Sideburn reader.
Find out more at Fly53 Boneshaker.com . G