Peanuts Go Motocrossing

I vaguely remember seeing this as a very small child and can only imagine that it planted the seed for Dirt Quake.
Can you imagine a kids TV show promoting amateur motorcycle racing in such a carefree way now? G

Travis Welcomes Visitors

The Deus blog keeps on trucking with high quality content and I check it regularly. Today I was treated to the joy of seeing Sideburn's Travis and his great Denver bike shop on there.

The post was written by Deus Venice USA big cheese Julian Heppekausen with photos taken on disposable film cameras. Co-Built Geoff shows up in the photos too.

See all the photos and read the short Shop Visit report at the Deus Blog. G

 Newbold's Motorbike Shop stocks Sideburn! You should too.

 Race bikes in for work.

 Travis and his wife, Rachel. 

 The famous Baja. 

Newbold's Motorbike Shop

I had the opportunity to visit racer, friend and poet, Travis Newbold and his motorcycle shop in Wheat Ridge, Denver last week. This is what I found...

That's Travis and his junkyard XS650 that he is going to ride off-road from LA to Barstow next Spring. He has monoshocked it with an old YZ back end. I think the front end is YZ too. Seat and plastics are Kawasaki (from a junk yard, like the YZ bits).

 Tools and stickers...

Helmets and trophies.

 More stickers

A Monkey.

 About 10% of Travis's trophy haul.

 A few more trophies.

 Travis's favourite trophies in a glass case - from Pikes Peak and his Dirt Quake II number board.

 His first race gloves.

 Hondasaki project.

This is how Travis and his dog Baja travel the few miles to work most days. Baja has ridden with Travis since she was a pup. A woman in a car pulled up next to Travis and started threatening to ring the police and report him for animal cruelty. Travis explained that the dog had more sense than him and her put together and if she didn't want to get on the bike she wouldn't. That shut her up.

Newbold's Motorbike Shop stocks Sideburn.