Jimmy's 50 Quid Jawa

From James in Devon, UK.

A few photos of the latest project for the blog maybe. 
Bought it standard off a guy at work for £50, hacked it up one evening and unseized it with a block of wood and a hammer and this is the result! 
It's slow as shit at the minute, needs a rebore and pistons I think, my mate on the Bullet had to push me along at anything over 45! 
Worked well on the beach though...
Cheers 
James

Mule Surf

Michael Z surfing his gorgeous Mule Triumph through Utah, captured by his friend, Kristin Park.

See and read more about this gorgeous Bonneville street tracker, and why Michael chose Mule to build it, in Sideburn 22. G

Bike Surfing

I know that some people who regularly check the Sideburn blog aren't totally plugged into the whole social media thing, so they might have missed out on this video that set the internet on fire last night.
It is completely mind-blowing.
I interviewed Robbie Maddison in Spain, at the World Premiere of One Any Sunday: The Next Chapter. I will try dig out the interview and put it on the blog later this week, if I can find the time. G

New In (and Back In)

YELLOW T-SHIRT NOW SOLD OUT. THANKS FOR THE ORDERS. STILL AVAILABLE IN GREY
Super limited edition yellow Slacker shirts.
Medium only. All other sizes sold out. These are on a Gildan Ultra, so they are a good medium, not a tighter-fitting medium (like the Gildan Ringspun that the grey Slacker is printed on). Only a handful are left from the exhibition we did with Stevie Gee.

We have also unearthed a few of the long sold out Sideburn 4. They're still at the 2009 cover price. I really love this issue, a great mix of stories and characters and bikes, from the 1950s to 2009. Well I love them all. G

Sideburn x Stevie Gee Shirt

To celebrate and commemorate the culmination of our collaboration with the never circumspect Stevie Gee we made some T-shirts.

Sizes S- XXL

Grey Gildan ringspun. Small print on the front, big print on the back.

£20 (free post in the UK) from sideburn.bigcartel.com

Stevie Gee New Website

Sideburn collaborator and the hardest working man in illustration, Stevie Gee, has a new website up.
He's also selling limited edition embossed screen prints of some of his great work. Follow the link above. G

Vive Le Gentleman

Bradley Wiggins. He only went and gone and done it. And his racing saddle has a picture of him (nearly) surfing a Lambretta! G

Youth Quake

Stevie drew this killer art for the Rollerburn art show and has been threatening to put it on sale in the Stevie Gee Big Cartel for some time. It's not there yet. Slacker. G

Deeds not words

Stevie Gee will be in Bali right now! Before he left he sent us this...

Hey Mister Inman,
I was just mailing Carby at DEUS about you. I just designed a poster for my show in Bali. The guy I drew surfing the bike was inspired (heavily referenced in fact) by a shot Carby sent me of you surfing a bike. You look like a complete wildman! Its a great shot... you'll recognise what I mean when you check the poster.
See you at Rollerburn in November, I'm gonna do some art for it.
Bestest, Stevie

PS Carby told me to tell you yours was the wobbliest looking of all the examples he sent me :-) It looks like you were going bloody fast to me. Careful man, your'e a Dad!

A Day with Dimitri Coste

A DAY WITH DIMITRI COSTE from EASTPAK FRANCE on Vimeo.

Lovely video showing Dimitri Coste shooting for Ruby Helmets while carrying his stuff in an Eastpak. Can that fella bike surf, or what? Sideburn loves DimCos.

Click the four arrows for full screen. It's hi-res. G

White Zombie

Über limited edition White Zombies have been given to a select group of inner-circle Sideburn contributors. Hoi Polloi have to make do with the original grey zombie - but only 100 of these were made, and most have them have already escaped.
"Since my son got hooked on my former GT, i wanted to try again 'the Surfer' like i was doing when i was 8 or 9 on the same bike. man, it was awesome, exact same feeling but higher from the ground. well thanks for the present, i try to honour it the best i can.
Merci Dimitri
attached, few shots of the rebirth by Noki Powlonski" Follow the link to Noki's site to see a little video of this bike surfingWhen we first met DC in Paris he was wearing all-white and we gave him a Sideburn Dick Mann white T. DC was the inspiration to do a white sweat. BP

Realisation...

UPDATE: Sorry for lack of replies. I've had a catastrohpic computer breakdown.
Answers to some of the comments.

1. Speed, dunno. Fast enough. My speedo isn't calibrated. About 40-50mph.
2. No, I don't use a throttle lock, just get up and back down. It's very stable right down to 20mph or so.
3. The Guzzi is stable is a straight line, the engine orientation makes no difference.
4. Those aren't winter trees. This photo was taken by Ben last Thursday evening.
G

Inspiration...

Photos: Scott Pommier, unknown

We've found a new god to worship 3

Not that we're fickle, but we're onto our third god already and this time we've turned Sikh. I saw a Sikh fella riding his Honda through London the other day. He had his turban and goggles on. It's a great look. They're the only riders in the UK not legally obliged to wear a helmet. And no, I haven't learned to bike-surf yet. I'm going to try on the FT500 before I take it to bits. I reckon this fella has a sticking throttle to get this much style going on. I can only imagine the state of the road beneath him. GI
Check out our previous god
We found this photo at OttoNero. Ciao ON!