Ace Cafe Flat Tracker Day Report

Look, I know I was whining about the date, but how many T-shirt hot days do you normally get in Norf Lahnden in February? One benefit of being sat behind a pasting table in a bike park for six hours is you get to see...
All the comings...
And goings...
Reino from TriCo/ The Great Frog and James from Kingdom of KicksConrad Leach turned up with his friend on matching Ducati tiddlers. A brilliant way to come out of the closet.

Stunning C&J framed Buell.
Signwriting by Ornamental Conifer.
Co-Built flanking demon racer (and soon to be Sideburn cover star) Tim Neave.
The Vintagent.
Chief Corpse From Hell, Maxwell P on his BSA from Sideburn 9.
Every photo I took had a at least one misshapen man in a black jacket in the background. I asked this lady if she wouldn't mind helping me prove that's not all a British bike meeting is about.
Nico from Ornamental Conifer. He did the great signwriting on our Enfield.

Dave the courier was selling this amazing R1 special in a one-off Steelheart frame. £6000 ono. He's been distracted by a hardtail race-tuned R1 chop. UK Short track 2011 novice champion, Stuart L, turned up on his rascal of a Sportster.
Photographer Sam Christmas and his Speed Four.
Swamp Rat!
Reilly Rocket crew.
Red Max had a big display of road and race bikes.
Including this AJS 125 project he's been collaborating on.
Always good to see a Sideburn Zombie.
This is Guy's BMW. He's racing it in Dirt Quake's inappropriate road bike class. It's filling up fast.
Nick's fantastic Cheney Triumph. Says he's racing this at Dirt Quake too.

Drogo's finished Co-Built racer.

Obviously it wasn't all street trackers, more an excuse of the gathering of the tribes. Thanks to everyone who came down, especially if you bought something. G

Inspired to Draw 2

Hi Sideburners,
Still loving the blog, a fantastic window onto the world behind the mag and the brilliant maniacs who make the UKFT such fun to follow.
I noticed a sketch some time ago done by Paddy from France. It was great, loved it.
Scribbling bikes is something I've been doing rather a lot of recently and I've been sticking the results up on a small blog called Soulcraftcandy. Having tried the "if you can't buy it, build it" approach some time ago with a street scrambler which you've seen, reasons have conspired to push me onto the next step along, "if you can't build it, draw it". here's one directly inspired by your blog amongst other things.
If you fancy seeing more of the drawings got to Soulcraftcandy, there should be a gallery there.
Great to see you at Reilly Rocket the other night as well, there were some crackin' bikes, real tasty burgers and I bought some mags too. Top evening.
Many thanks and all the very best
Jon

Thank You For Riding With US

(last of the Reily Rocket snaps) BP

Sideburn x Reilly Rocket UPDATE

What a great night. A full on London street party. Thanks to everyone who came from near and far (Bristol! Glasgow!! Spain!!!). There are some lovely photos up on El Solitario MC blog (where this one above is taken from). Ben will stick ours up over the weekend.
Massive thanks to everyone at London's friendliest new cafe Reilly Rocket plus Dave and Max the DJs and to everyone who bought something. G
Reilly Rocket,
507 Tottenham Rd, Dalston/Hackney
London, E8 4AUThe weirdest mish-mash of machines this side of planet Zeetron.Sideburn, a veritable Dr Barnardos type institutionHi Gary, Ben and all at Sideburn and Reilly Rocket,
Thanks for a great London bike party. Very very few of them around these parts which is a shame. Pop up bike bbq's rock! It's a shame I didn't get the chance to thank you more and speak with Drogo, as I was interested in how he was getting on with the shaved front disc / brembo set-up on his XS650, mine was the KR rep parked next to it on the night and my front brake set-up needs some help. By the time I'd narrowed down who I thought he was, I had to leave and he looked deep in chat with Mr Red Max.
My mate Simon came along on his burgundy Ariel but found out en route that it wasn't charging the lights. So I left with him before it got too dark and was going to ride behind him part way home to act as a tail/brake light. We'd got as far as Balls Pond Rd round the corner and realised that my brake tail light had blown! Weird. Oh well, lights on bikes at the party looked fairly optional anyway.What a load of cool dogs as well at a bike meet!
Cheers gents,
Richard

Free Mule T-shirt

Richard at Mule Motorcycles sent us a few shirts to give out at the Sideburn 8 party in London this Thursday. The first people to ask me, Gary, for one gets one till they run out.
We've also got new free Zombie McQueen stickers and A4 Chris Watson event posters.
Oh, and the new magazine too (but that's not free). G

Sideburn at Reilly Rocket next Thursday

Last week I managed to do a site visit to Reilly Rocket in North London and it's a cool place. They're putting on a BBQ for our release party too. No booze though. Tea, coffee and lovely tarts. Click here for details. GI
Ollie. He's in charge. He's from New Zealand and likes watching the Tour de France on the big screen in the afternoon. Go join him.
This is the Suzuki dealer Reilly Rocket is next to.
And this is Reilly Rocket. It will have new stickers on the window. We want to see some tasty bikes out here. Travis from Colorado is judging the show. Whichever bike he thinks is displaying the most radness takes home a big prize. Could be a chop, bobber, street tracker, hell, it could be a Lambretta or even a bicycle. Who knows what's going on in Travis's noodle?