Bike Shed Today, DTRA Racing tomorrow!

Sideburn 24 - Pre-Order and much more...

It's a couple of weeks later than it should have been, so thanks for your patience, but Sideburn 24 is finally at the printers and available for pre-order now. This is the biggest ever issue of the magazine, with 116 pages (up from 100) for the same price.

There are features on:

• Snow Quake
• Thor's XG750 street tracker
• Hell on Wheels hillclimb
• How To be a Short Track bad ass by GNC racewinner Briar Bauman
• Dirty adventures with Canada's Filthmode
• Australian race mutants, an essay on the movie Stone
• Travis races an Indian Scout hooligan bike 
• A new column by Guy Martin

Plus there are the regular interviews, photo portfolio, Trophy Queen, blueprint features and more...

Buy the issue for £6 plus post or subscribe for eight issues and get a free Sideburn gaffer tape T-shirt. (retail price £18) 

We love the cover design, that was created by Toria Jaymes of Stay Outside Studio, so much we made a Clear Your Head T-shirt and high quality Clear Your Head Giclee art prints too.

Not only that, we have new sticker packs from Maxwell Paternoster and Matt Wes and a new issue of the French magazine, All You Need Is Ride. Check all the fresh stuff out in the New Arrivals section of the Sideburn webshop.

The official launch of Sideburn 24, and the launch of the DTRA 2016 season, will be held at the Bike Shed Motorcycle Club in London, on Saturday 9 April. It's the day before the first race meeting of the Dirt Track Riders Association season at Rye House, Hertfordshire (just outside the M25). It's free to spectate, there's going to be a massive race entry, so make a weekend of it.

Hope to see you there, Gary

SB DTRA Bolt party snaps

Thanks to everybody that came down and made this a great launch party - some revelers came all the way from Belgium. The original schedule of 2-6pm bled to 12am-12pm. Good times. BP

Sideburn and DTRA at Bolt Tomorrow

Don't forget about this tomorrow.

Gorgeous race bikes
Slightly less gorgeous racers to quiz about getting started
DTRA Photo expo
New number board font launch
New Sideburn mag and merch

The day event is followed by an evening knees up hosted by near-legendary clothing brand Eat Dust.

BOLT: This Saturday

 Don't forget the DTRA and Sideburn event and Bolt in London this Saturday.

Gorgeous never seen before race bikes on display
DTRA photo exhibition
Magazine launch
House Industries DTRA 2015 launch
Dark arts coffee on tap

Plus after party with Eat Dust.

David Hardy of Enjoy the Ride created the poster. He gave us a bunch of alternatives. We liked them all, so here they are. G

Sideburn x DTRA x Bolt

We're having an event with the DTRA at Bolt London, the afternoon of Saturday 21 March.
Come along and see...

• Great DTRA race bikes
• The best photography from the last few seasons
• Meet the race organisers and have all your questions answered
• Check out the new number boards with a custom font from House Industries
• Paw the fancy clobber and Biltwell good stuff that Bolt sell
• Have a Dark Arts coffee
• Make a night of it with an after-party hosted by the Eat Dust crew from Belgium

Oh, and get your hands on the new Sideburn! G

Sideburn 19 Launch TOMORROW

Don't forget, we're all over at Monday Mo Co in Birmingham tomorrow afternoon.

We put out the wrong postcode before, it's B9 4AA.

We will also have, hot off the press, the overdue blueprint of Metro Don's Bultaco Astro featured in Sideburn #14, meticulously drawn by Mick Ofield.
These will be available from our webshop next week.

Sideburn 19: Launch

UPDATE: NOW WITH CORRECT POSTCODE - B9 4AA

Don't forget NEXT SATURDAY.

WHAT: Sideburn 19 launch + official shop opening + free motorbike film festival until 11pm.
WHEN: 1-6pm, Saturday 6 December
WHERE: Monday Mo Co, Birmingham, B9 4AA, UK

Plus prizes for best bike and furthest travelled.

That means there's a new issue of SIDEBURN due any day!

Order yours from sideburn.bigcartel.com

Sideburn 19 Launch Party

WHERE: Monday Mo Co, a new shop in Birmingham,  B9 4AA

This brand new shop is co-owned by a few people including Benny Boneshaker and people from the creative agency, I Love Dust. It sells Biltwell, Deus Ex Machina, Sideburn magazine and a bunch of other stuff including their own T-shirts.

WHEN: 1 - 6pm, Saturday 6 December. With motorcycle films being shown in the Mockingbird Theatre and Bar next door till 11pm.

WHAT: We don't do a release party for every issue, just when the opportunities arise and this one is perfect.
We wanted to do something with the Monday Mo Co in Birmingham and they had just announced Black Top, a film festival of bike movies.
Visit the new shop, pick up some stuff from Monday Mo Co or the Sideburn stall, check out a film, some music, some drinks...

Prizes for best bike and furthest travelled.

Hope to see you there.

Poster artwork: Jonathan Niclaus at I love Dust 

Sideburn x Stevie Gee x Vans x Old Kawasaki x Ruby x Free Rum!

Don't forget next Thursday is the Sideburn party and Stevie Gee one-man show in London. All the details are on the poster. If you can't make it on the night, the exhibition is open through until Monday.
The pop-up gallery store is selling prints, original art, T-shirts, books and magazines. G

Sideburn 15 Launch Party

Sideburn 15 is with us and being sent out now, but the official launch of the mag is in East London on Thursday 5 December.

The launch party is seamlessly intertwined with a brand new solo art exhibition by Stevie Gee. 

Never peeped before art, customised weapons and the Stevie Gee x Sideburn Z200 cover bike (built by the mighty CFM) - pore over the details of this mini-meisterwerk. Plus music, booze, limited edition swag to buy, interesting people saying daft things, prizes to be won...

The event takes place at the Old Truman Brewery, just off Brick Lane with the venue then becoming a pop-up art gallery/shop until Tuesday. Yeah, a Stevie Gee/Sideburn pop-up shop in the best city on Earth. Whatever next?

We plan to have some other events going on in the shop so keep them peeled. G

Thanks to Vans + Kraken Rum + Ruby Helmets.

Mud Crab Snaps (pm)

Tall stories from Co Built

Wonderful lazer etched wooden CFH trophies

'Best Bike' - Survivor Customs' Rotax chop tracker odd-ball.

'Furthest Traveled by Bike' - London by Sam Christmas.

'Best Jacket' Max's Aldana jacket. BP

Peaks Ride-Out Snaps

This was the only accident of the whole day. It was just topple during the coffee break when the sidestand pressed through the flapjack tarmac. The only damage was some earth deposit on the sidestand which didn't exactly warrant calling out the AA.

Dave on his newly acquired CB175

Max winner of 'Best Jacket' wearing Dave Aldana's old leathers from when he was a teenager.

Proper coffee in the middle of nowhere, served from the back of Motore's Piaggio Ape - How fantastic!

And the next day on the way home, I stopped by Derbyshire Aggregates out in Youlgrave for a few sacks of black Bassalt chips (not peculiar to the North of England) for my wannabe-Japanese garden. (I nearly gave myself a double hernia when I acquired the stone doorstep from a field next to the A53 when I was last in the Peak District). BP