Scott Pommier Fast Magazine

ce soir à la Republic Gallery Paris, le lancement du nouveau numéro de FAST magazine consacré au photographe Canadien Scott Pommier, venez prendre un mag et admirer l'expo.
see you there
Dimitri

Mr Pommier shot the Scorpions Vintage Flat Track club (from Canada) that was featured in the soon to be sold out Sideburn 3.

Art and Moto, Lisbon

One unexpected side effect of making Sideburn is all the artists I've come in contact with thanks to working with Ben on the magazine. We've used illustrators and artists since issue one to supply drawings for features, hand lettering for headlines and T-shirt and poster designs.

Two Spanish artists we've become friends with are Antonio Merinero and Raulowsky. On 27-28 April they're joining forces for Art and Moto, a joint show at the incredible LXFactory, Lisbon, Portugal.

Also at the show, Davida are showing the Dominik Scherrer's anarchic 1998 motorbike-opera Hell For Leather (nothing to do with the website and made in 1998) as their contribution to 2013 international 'Art and Moto' exhibition. Davida say...

At turns both provocative and hilarious, this visceral and Wagnerian re-imagining of Satan and his acolyte's banishment to hell via a post-apocalyptic London is twisted and compelling for every minute of its modest 30 minute running time. Shot in beautiful monochrome 35mm and featuring an extraordinary looking cast of characters, it runs wild with all manner of genres from motorbike exploitation films to fetishism to, well, opera with adult content, not for the faint-hearted.

Sideburn will be there. G

Style Guru: Kamen Rider

Forget selvedge denim cut-offs and vintage MX helmets. This is the look I'm after. G

Dirt Quake II News

 

Plenty going on behind the scenes regarding Dirt Quake II.

SPONSORS

Some great companies have come onboard to sponsor: Davida, Biltwell, Racefit, Krazy Horse Customs, Old Empire Motorcycles, Venhill, Triple H Motorcycles and El Solitario.

El Solitario, the crazed Spanish sophisticates, infamous across at least three continents, are building a Ducati-based machine, Petardo (firecracker or explosive in Spanish), to compete on. 

If you want details on how to sponsor, please get in touch. 

CAMPING

We're able to offer camping on the Saturday night. There will be a small extra charge. 

More details to follow.

ENTRIES

Lots of people are asking about entering, which is great news. We're working with the UK flat track organisers, the DTRA, to offer a really smooth sign up, which, we hope will all be possible online. The DTRA are going to test the new system with entries for their first race of the year, in Mid-April, also at King's Lynn, then we'll open DQII entries, around mid-April, still 7-8 weeks before the event.
Entry fees are yet to be confirmed. Everyone without an MCF race licence will need a day licence (costing £10). More details to follow.

The classes are the same as last year. 

INAPPROPRIATE ROAD BIKE (IRB)
Bike must be road legal, with lights (taped up) and registration plate.

STREET TRACKER
Road legal street tracker or street scrambler (subject to approval by us). Registration plate and working tail light.

CHOPPER
It’s got to be a chopper, bobber or custom, baby. Doesn’t have to be road legal, but must look like a chopper. Hardtails and softtails accepted. Stock looking factory customs should be in Inappropriate Road Bike class. Look below for some of last year's chopper grid.

All bikes in all classes MUST have front sprocket covered.

Fasciani Flat Tracker

I found some photos on my hard drive, but I can't remember who took them, where or when. Perhaps Alberto Narduzzi. I think that's FIM World Champion Vesprini on board, but I can't be sure. Useless, I know. Nice shot though. G

家族 Y-Front Action

Thanks to Capt Simon for the tip. Click on the Vimeo logo for full-screen. BP

UPDATE: BP and I posted this at the same time, so I took mine down, but this is what I wrote.

I hadn't heard of the LA singer/band till I saw that Dimitri Coste had been to see him last week, then Captain Simo sent us a link to this crackers video of the Hanni El Khatib song, 'Family'.

Daft fun, but not work friendly if you work for 'The Man'.

I think Sideburn has a new show stand look... G

read a Guardian review on Hanni here

Charley B

I went riding around Southern Africa with Charley Boorman a couple of years ago and had a blast. His oppo Billy W sent this in from their most recent Australia trip, that called in at Sideburn stockist Deus Ex Machina, Sydney. G

Lady Beast

The Sideburn Beast T-shirt is now available in lady, slim-fitting medium size. We have a limited number of them. Get one at the Sideburn webshop. G

Thunderbolt For Sale

Our mate and fellow racer, Paul H is selling this gorgeous road legal BSA street tracker. Here's what he says:

1970 A65 Thunderbolt, only had one owner, just about everything on the bike has been refurbished, I'm looking for £5000. Contact fastharry13  at  gmail.com

Launch Frenzy

Oh Englanders, you're being spoilt by a frenzy of independent motorcycle magazine live action. Greasy Kulture Magazine has been redesigned, is looking slick, has a new website and is holding it's first ever launch party (despite being the grand old age of 32) on March 30, at Boneshaker Choppers, Stourbridge, West Midlands.
Sideburn collaborator Sam Christmas is going to be there photographing people with their bikes. GKM promise free beer and music, but demand you turn up on a bike. Sounds fair.

The week before, 23 March (which is three weeks tomorrow) the next issue of Sideburn will be launched at the magnificent Krazy Horse Customs brand new HQ in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
The Stags will be playing, there are trophies for bikes we like (ridden to the event). It'll be a rave-up with good people. G