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A tea towel!

That's right. 100% cotton and emblazoned with Ryan Quickfall's wonderful illustration of Jim Rice from Sideburn 16.

Comes with a Quickfall-designed packaging sleeve. 

£10 plus post from the Sideburn shop. 

Rice by Quickfall

Second in the a series of screen printed flat track icons by UK artist Ryan Quickfall.
Here's the soft sell...

Stunning multi-coloured, hand-pulled screenprint of Jim Rice from Sideburn 16.
Printed on premium stock 300gsm Somerset.
Size: approx 500 x 380mm
Hand numbered and signed by artist.
Posted in heavy-duty mailing tube.
Comes feee with assorted Sideburn posters and/or flyers.

£40 plus post.

Get yours at the Sideburn webshop

Jim Rice for SB16

Continuing our series of Who, What, Why interviews with racing legends we have Jim Rice lined up for issue 16, out in early 2014. If you're missing any back issues, this is who we have conducted exclusive interviews with so far...

Issue 3 Dick Mann
4 Don Castro
5 Dave Aldana
6 Gene Romero
7 Eddie Lawson
8 Scott Parker
9 Jay Springsteen
10 Chris Carr
11 Bubba Shobert
12 Steve Morehead
13 Mert Lawwill
14 Joe Kopp
15 Nick Hayden

Buy back issues at the Sideburn webshop

Rice starting to loose it! Then the carnage !

San Jose 1974.
Forwarded to by Wayne Karcich. Thanks.

I'll never see On Any Sunday in the same light

In a reply to the recent post on Gary Nixon's Triumph, regular correspondent, and owner of the Shell Racing XS650 in SB1, AlMcQ wrote:

'That's a Trackmaster frame - and doesn't it look great! The Team also tried the triples on the dirt with stock and Rob North frames. Jim Rice crashed a triple at Sacramento in "On Any Sunday" sadly the cartwheeling bike killed a photographer at trackside. "

I never knew that, and only have McQ's (usually encyclopedic) word for it. I guess Bruce Brown didn't want to bring the film down, as it was essentially good propaganda for motorcycle sport, that was at a low ebb, but the poor photographer deserved a mention, didn't he?
The Motorcycle Hall of Fame (where this photo is from) mention the bike hitting the photographer, but not the outcome. You can see the point before the impact. Grisly stuff.
So, belatedly, commiserations to the family of the unnamed photographer from all at Sideburn. GI