The Real Intellectuals Flat Tracker

This gorgeous CB400-powered framer flat tracker was built by The Real Intellectuals in Greece with lots of help from Bandisca, Romania and caferacer.gr. Both The Real Intellectuals and Bandisca stock Sideburn.
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The new Sideburn blog is mirroring this one until Jan 1, 2017, then it'll take over. G

The Rotten Race, Greece

Dirt Quake's influence continues to reverberate around the world. This time in Greece. It was organised by Sideburn stockists, The Real Intellectuals, here's what they say...

The first Rotten Race took place in Athens, Greece, organized by the city’s very own “The Real Intellectuals”, the creative collective behind handmade motorcycle supplies in the center of Athens.

Answering the need for a flat track event in a country where side sliding is nearly unknown, and following the flair of similar events organized in UK and elsewhere, the first Rotten Race invited riders of all sorts and machines to compete on a DIY track. The location: a traditional horse riding club on the outskirts of the city, which turned into a small scale oval track, ideal for rubber burning and mud-inflicted pain. 

Three distinct classes were available to all Rotten Racers: the custom class, full of scramblers, trackers, cafι racers and vintage machines, the factory off-road class and the “Tiny Rottens”, a class dedicated to miniature two-wheeled machines and Italian Vespas. 

The yellow/black flag dropped a hundred times, and knockout races made a day filled with mud, dirt, rocks and hay fly by. Once the dirt settled down, another class had a chance to race: that of single-horsepower. First comes the Quake, then the Aftershock, but after all is gone, the earth will be rotten and perfect for racing. Dirt freaks finally have a place to race, with or without knobby tires. Stay Rotten. 

The Real Intellectuals, Athens, Greece

Athens is finally civilised as The Real Intellectuals now stocks Sideburn.

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Speed Junkies, Athens

Giannis of Speed Junkies has been supporting Sideburn since the first issue, back when he lived in Texas. Now he's home in Greece and has opened a store selling his own T-shirts, art and other stuff.
And he's a new Sideburn stockist! If your shop/store/bar/tattoo parlour/massage parlour/clubhouse/nuthouse or cafe would like to stock Sideburn we want to hear from you. Email us at dirt @ sideburnmagazine.com (take out the spaces) with your requirements and we'll sort out you right out.
Good luck Giannis. G

More on that Greek SR

More on that tasty Greek SR500

I had a nice SR500 I brought over from the UK in 2008 and after a summer using it for everyday I started the plans I had. I finished May 2009 but kept changing things until I had what you see now. It looks like the picture I had in my head I grew up on a diet of Evel Kneivel and 70s dirt bikes and this was for me what a real bike should look like! The engine is very
modified and pulls like a train!
I live on the Island of Lefkas one of the Ionian islands. I'm self employed cleaning pools all summer and then I have two very good local friends who have a bike service centre and we spend our winters building and using the 56 miles around the island as our own TT!
Simon

Killer Greek SR500

More photos and details soon.