Salem: This Saturday

This scene is really growing. Loads of spectators making it out.
Get along if you can. Cheap to race. Cheap to spectate. G

Superprestigio Grand Final

I've been trying to track down and embeddable version of this and I finally found it. With the all-time great Chris Carr giving expert commentary.
Check out the DTRA's Ollie Brindley.

We have superb photos and analysis from Superprestigio coming up in the next issue. G

Working Class Heroes

Working Class Heroes in Ulverston in the Lake District now stock Sideburn.
An actual shop and online store, they sell a bunch of brands that are difficult to find in the UK including Deus Ex Machina, Poler (Poler stuff in their sale now!), Adidas Skateboarding...

This is what Tom says about the company.

We are Rob, Adam, Tom and Chaz, (Right to left in the image below).
We have been in business since 2006, providing clothing from the likes of Carhartt, Deus, Dickies, Levi etc both in-store and online. 

There are only 4 of us working in the shop based in Ulverston. We really hope the shop and website work out, because if this doesn't we are stuck for ideas! Tom used to sell yoghurt, Rob was unemployed, Chaz worked as a zookeeper, but stole a monkey (for legal reasons I made the monkey bit up) and we grew Adam from a crystal (true story). 

On a motorbike front, I ride a Bonneville and I am big fan of The Trip Out, Adam is Norton man and the others are not fit to ride a skateboard!

www.facebook.com/wchclothing 

If you would like to become a Sideburn stockist email us at dirt @ sideburnmagazine.com for the killer bestest deals.

Inappropriate Race Bike

What was he thinking? Or was it a dare?
Love the sound of a 750-4 on the rip. Must be chilly, looks like he's sporting Oxford Muffs, good man. BP

Snowflake

Loving Rossi's winter testing helmet from Sepang, earlier today.
He was second quickest behind, you guessed it. G

The Generationals - Reviver

Good video, inoffensive song...
So Cal stalwarts, Zeke and Eric E feature heavily as 'stunt doubles'.

Thanks to Hell on Wheels for the tip-off. G

Di Traverso Flat Track School

Former British, Italian and European flat track champion and co-founder of Zaeta, Marco Belli has launched a flat track school in Italy.
Di Traverso has backing from Yamaha, Deus and Dainese among others and dates throughout the year.
The photo below is of our old friend Peter G from Hungary (left) and top Italian journalist Paolo Sormani, who was at the launch reporting for the next issue of Sideburn.

Find out more at Di Traverso Flat Track School.

Marco's English is very good, so if you want to attend but can't understand the Italian website, contact him through his website. G

When GI met Marc Marquez

As a full-time freelance journalist, I (Gary Inman, Sideburn's editor) have a very varied life. A deadline every day too. The job has taken me all over the world and Sideburn fits in around this day job and family life (though Sideburn muscles into every single day). 

Last August I was sent an email from Italy asking me to interview Marc Marquez in London. Then it was cancelled. A few weeks later it was back on, but in Italy. All a bit last minute, but I could fit it in, so I drove to London for the flight to Milan. I was picked up in a minibus by a big crew and driven to Rimini on the far coast of Italy. We pulled into the car park of the Grand Hotel Rimini at nearly midnight. 

It wasn't long since I'd watched the brilliant Grand Hotel Budapest and there were a lot of visual comparisons. No lift boys though.

The next morning, after breakfast on my own, I went to a pair of adjoining suites where the photoshoot was underway. The room was crowded with: 

• The husband and wife photography team - VanMossevelde+N
• Their two assistants
• The wardrobe man and his assistant
• The magazine's art director
• Hairdresser
• Marquez's agent (above in 93 shirt)
• Marc Marquez (through the crowd in the suit and tie)

Ten people in total, plus me. I sat and waited my turn.

 About a third of the clothing options the magazine brought.

 Marquez hair trimmings. I should've collected them for eBay...

I interviewed the world champion, on the cusp of securing his second world title, for nearly an hour, a good slot. At the end, having run out questions, I asked him the old cliche - what was better, winning races or sex? He said, winning races leads to more sex with a laugh.
The assignment was for Icon in Italy, but their Spanish version picked up the interview and photos. Then the national paper, El Pais (who own the Spanish version of Icon), took the quote and made it a front page headline, in this quite traditional and Catholic country. Obviously to try sell more magazines.
When I saw Marquez's manager at the Superprestigio he gave me the dead eye and told me about the El Pais situation, that I didn't know about until that time. Whoops.
Marquez is a nice young fella, I hope I didn't cause problems for him. I doubt it.
I was told, the week before the Superprestigio, the rider was on TV crying because he'd caught a lot of very public grief for moving from Spain to Andorra to avoid paying Spanish tax. The Spaniards, in the depths of a very rough recession, didn't like this super-rich young sportsman avoiding tax so publicly. As I understand it, he made a U-turn and moved back to Spain, or decided not to move to Andorra at all.

Sideburn - the choice of world champions.

 This is the coverage in Italy's Icon. I write for them regularly if any Italians out there are bothered. G

£114.68 (plus post)

We're making more of these. We weren't going to, but so many Guy Martin fans are asking it seems daft not to. We're waiting for the quote from the UK manufacturer, but they'll be between £15 and £20 (a saving of at least £94.68). G

WTF?

Sideburn hat, that we sold for £15 plus post for the last seven months, now on UK eBay for £95, just because Guy Martin wore one on TV a few times.
Don't bother bidding, we're making some more.
Form an orderly queue. G

Thanks to Pete The Rich for the tip-off