Get yer Umlaut!

Sideburn Umlaut sweatshirts have sold out in some sizes in particular colours, but we still have options in all sizes from S to XXL. We made them in black, charcoal grey and navy blue.
This fella likes his. G

El Solitario in Yokohama

Our good friends El Solitario have been on a mission to the Mooneyes Hot Rod and Custom Show in Yokohama, Japan. This tidy Sportster is from their report. Does anyone know what this chassis is or is based on?
Check out their take on the show at the vibrant El Solitario blog. G

McQueen is Dead

Very few outlets give me the opportunity to write what I really want to, hence the reason I approached Ben, back in 2007, to help create Sideburn. One that still does is the website Influx. Mike, is the geezer who runs it and he is a geezer: a West Ham fan with a lived-in mush full of cracked tombstone teeth and accent as cultured as a brick through Southern Fried Chicken's front window. He's a brilliant self-taught creative writer and self-confessed Acid Rambler.

Anyway, he asked me 'Can you turn me around a 750 word piece on the whole Steve McQueen shit?' Who says the art of briefing is dead? And while a series of features on Steve McQueen is hardly pushing the envelope, I couldn't refuse.

To his credit, Mike only edited out a couple of lines that he thought would offend their target readership too much. Read it, and other McQueen-related stories (not by me), over at Influx. Leave a comment on my bit, whether you agree or not, and it'll make me appear popular. Thanks! G

DTRA by DSC

London-based creative force and race team sponsor Death Spray Custom filmed his UK dirt track racer, Ross Herrod, at King's Lynn last year.
Read DSC's take on Dirt Track, accompanied by the amazing drawings of Keith Watts in Sideburn 15. G

Trip Out Mugs

The latest issue of Greasy Kulture Magazine, #36, has run 18 of the 90 mug-shots I photographed at The Trip Out. You can buy it on-line here. BP

The One Motorcycle Show, 2014

I went last year and it was great fun, great bikes, great city, great people. If you get chance, get there. G

Dirt Quake III

We can confirm the date - Saturday 19 July, King's Lynn. There are going to be loads of shenanigans going on the night before.
Race entries won't open for a few months, but we wanted to let you put the date in your diaries.

TR6C in a T120R Frame

From Derek in Minnesota

I think I first came across the Sideburn blog while searching google for anything street tracker related. I think it popped up with a picture of the Skooter Farm Rotax, and from that point on I've checked in twice a week to see what was new. I've got a triumph TR6C that has been turned into a street tracker and I can't get enough of seeing other peoples bikes and projects.

Here's some pics of my bike from right after we got it finished. the pictures aren't the best (I'm no photographer). Its a 71 TR6C in a T120R frame, my dad bought it in the early 80s for $75. It sat in our basement until 2005 when we decided it'd make a fun father son project as I was going to school for motorcycle mechanics at the time.

It took about a year to finish and we're pretty happy with the results. A few specs on it, the front end is off a 78 CB750 with modified trees and re-laced with an Excel rim. the rear wheel is from a Cannondale enduro bike with a KX250 rear brake. The glass and handlebars are from Omar's Dirt Track. it has Boyer ignition and a brand new Amal carb. All the fab work was done by my dad (he's been machinist for 40+ years). It's all right side controls and no front brake, so riding it can be a bit tricky. she gets a lot of looks everywhere it goes.
Thanks again! Derek

Icon 1000 Iron Lung

I love Icon. They do things properly. 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