Killer Coffee, Lousy Service

Sideburn is available in Milwaukee again, at Fuel Cafe. I wish there was somewhere like this within half-an-hour's ride of me. GI
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Peoria TT NEXT weekend

Wild looking race. Peoria TT
(I originally put this weekend. I got a bit excited. GI)

Lakeland Moriwaki Centre

My day job took me up to Lake District to see an amazing Honda/Suzuki/GIA special (I'll show you it when PB is published). But this is the builder's garage. I love a good garage. I could spend hours rooting about in here asking where stuff came from. GI

Running on empty

Dealing with every aspect of the Sideburn business means we notice every little up and down. There is no filter. We write the envelopes, walk to the post office, the whole thing. So, we notice when there's a rush on Dick Mann T-shirts. I counted up and we have 19 left. Once they're gone, they're gone. We like the idea that Sideburn stuff will become collectible to some and a little significant to those who are in at the beginning.
So, this is what we have left,
Small: 2 x Knuckle White/ 1 x Blood Red/ 2 x Dirt Brown/ 3 x Graphite Grey
Med: 1 x white/ 1 x Army green/ 2 x Dirt Brown
Large: 2 x Chocolate Brown/ 2 x Graphite Grey / 1 x Knuckle White

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Mablethorpe Weapon

Carl's TDR250: ready to fight them on the beaches.

King's Lynn TT

I'd just like to thank Anthony at Co-Built, Richard Rowley, BSD Motorcycle Developments and everyone at Skooter Farm Racing... That's what I would have said from the podium, given a chance. I was on the podium! Third in the Thunderbikes. Thunderbikes were on the oval . The track was lovely early, then went into a wide blue groove and I'm usually pretty good on a blue groove short track. I qualified sixth for the final, tucked into fourth and held it until Paul Harrison (4) had trouble on the brakes and me and Steve Coles slid up the inside.
The bike felt good. The misfire was carb all along. Local dyno experts BSD said my desperate stab of 270 main jet was spot on, but he machined the float to lower the needle and drilled out the air screw. It felt great at the race.

Steve at Red Max got his Vertemati TT bike ready and it looked good. Vertemati are the Bimota of dirt bikes.



Steve Hazell has built a mutant for the burgeoning minibike class and came in with a face creased with laughter after every heat.

Tim's budget CCM went well.

Tom's factory CCM was still parked as Tom's humerus is still broken.

Sideburn reader Andy Harris came along to his first flat track race. He reckons...
'Isn't bike racing Brilliant! I thought this about 50 times today at the Norfolk Arena. It's the most fun I've ever seen on track, full stop. More carnage than a slaughterhouse, and more shoving than a German queue.
Years of mechanicing on a '72 Triumph and '86 Guzzi Earlystocks racer were never as good as this.
Good to meet you, and well done! I think you're doing it right because you're making it look easy.
Trouble is, I now need to go and do this myself...I'm booking an FT experience day at Scunny.
Best of luck at the BMF!
Cheers Andy'

Mule Web Surfer

To put a smile on everyone's face. Or most people's anyway. Gracias Mule!

Bad news

This week's Flat Track Friday has been cancelled. The reason is not enough interest from riders but I thought it was more of a run what you brung deal, I didn't realise people had to pre-enter.
Some better news coming soon. GI

Soul Survivor

Sent to France to fight the Hun in the first World War, as a sunny faced school boy, my Grandfather's classmates were all killed.
He didn't talk about it when he returned home to Blighty. He became an engineer, and even when he became sick he insisted that that my Grandmother take the damn grapes away and bring him instead a boat engine to fettle. I never met the great man, he died years before I was born. Here's a shot of him on his beloved mo' bi' (as he called it) near Cantaing-sur-Escaut (or environs), France, 1917. I think it's a BSA???
BP

Get there any way you can

I think I saw this at Church of Choppers. We like his/her style.