NEW Fantic Caballero

 

This just in from Riccardo Chiosi, Fantic Motorcycles designer and long-term Sideburn reader (whose Gilera, The American, was in Sideburn #15).

This bike just debuted at EICMA. Above is the flat track, below is the dual sport, on knobblies. How cool are these?!

Take a look at our last toys - Caballero three displacement : single 4-stroke 125-250-500.
Two version : dual (17"-19") and flat track (19"-19" omologated!!!) I'll keep you updated!!! 
Ciao Riccardo

New Sideburn Website!

Yeah, the clunky old, years out of date website is on the scrapheap, we've got an all-new one with new elements being added on a weekly basis (for a while at least).

Relive past glorious events; click on the rolling feed of instagram posts, even if you don't have a smartphone; check out stockists; read the blog, and soon, luxuriate in Stories, that I hope will be somewhere between a blog and a magazine article.

www.sideburnmagazine.com

Let us know what you think.

Cheers
Gary Inman
Editor

Trackmaster Triumph for Sale in the UK

Kev H has found another dirt tracker being sold in the UK. This is a rare and beautiful beast. Race-spec Trackmaster Triumph T120R. We don't know anything about the sale, so buyer beware, but what a stunning piece of kit. This is what the ad says...

£8000 or best offer.

TRIUMPH T120R (1971) USA FLAT TRACK/ DIRT BIKE.
THIS IS A ORIGINAL USA FLAT TRACKER NOT ONE WHICH HAS BEEN MADE UP. VERY RARE NICKEL PLATED TRACK MASTER FRAME AND SWINGING ARM
TWIN LECTRON CARBS
CERIANI FRONT END
GRIMECA REAR DISC
K AND N FILTERS
OFFSET FOOTPEGS WITH BATES RUBBERS
FLAT TRACK PRIMARY CASE
FLAT TRACK TYRES, (NOT FOR USE ON HIGHWAY)
THE BIKE HAD A LIGHT RESTORATION A FEW YEARS AGO IN THE USA. IT HAD A NEW SEAT AND TANK AND I THINK WITH NEW WHEEL RIM, SPOKES AND HUBS, OR HE MAY HAVE HAD THEM POLISHED, I HAVE FITTED A NEW BATTERY, IT STARTS 2ND OR 3RD KICK AND SOUNDS WONDERFUL, AS YOU SEE, IT HAS NO FRONT BRAKE, LIGHTS , HORN ETC IT HAS A CUT OUT BUTTON TO STOP, THIS IS A GENUINE FLAT TRACK BIKE , EX RACER, I DO HAVE THE NOVA DOCS FOR IT, MAY BE INTERESTED IN EXCHANGE FOR NORTON OR BSA W.H.Y.

Tommy Rockwood

Tommy Rockwood styling on a BSA Gold Star in a Sonicweld chassis.
Apparently he set an Ascot Park lap record on this bike. No rear brake, so pre-1970.
Photographer unknown, but almost definitely Mahony. G

48-hour film marathon with Deus Milano

If you're going the the EICMA bike show, or if you just happen to be in Milan over the next couple of days, get down to Deus Ex Machina where they'll be showing a marathon 48 hours of films on the theme of women riders, starting on Monday 7 November at 8.30pm. Free entry, come and go as you please. It's all happening at the Deus Leica Theatre, via Thaon di Revel 3, Milano.

Bultaco Astro T-shirt

We offered this T-shirt as a subs offer, and we have a handful left in the less popular sizes.
Available in Small, XL, 2XL and 3XL ONLY.

The Sideburn Bultaco Astro T-shirt is £15 plus post.

If the mention of 3XL has caught your attention, we also have 3XL in the Spark Eagle T-shirt, the blue XR750 blueprint T-shirt and the Not for Aircraft Use T-shirt.

We also have 2XL in nearly all the Sideburn T-shirts we currently offer.

UPDATE: 3XL has sold out of this design so please check our other 3XL offerings.

Sideburn Sportster Hooligan

I made some time today to work on my Sportster that has been laid up since American visitor Chris Wiggins crashed it and ripped the throttle cables in two at Dirt Quake. I took it over to CFM in Sleaford, because I like hanging out there, they lend me a bench to work on and there is never a problem Carl can't fix when I get stuck.

Today I put on a Motone ribbed CV carb top. I wasn't sure whether to fit it or not, but it's a nice unfussy dress-up part. I'm glad I did because when I looked in the top of the carb, the diaphragm was so split that Carl CFM couldn't believe the bike even ran. So no wonder Wiggins thought it felt more like an 883 than the 1200 it was sold to me as. I got a replacement diaphragm for £31.50 from local Harley specialist Cycle Haven.

The original big Sportster tank was replaced with a Lowbrow/ Cycle Standard 2.2 gallon tank. I can't believe the quality of this tank that retails in the US at just $130. Unreal. Bolted straight on with all new fasteners and rubbers included in the box.

The rusty, cutdown original rear fender was junked in favour of a $199 Lowbrow aluminium Tsunami fender, in an anodised grey finish. It was designed to fit Later Sportsters than my 1991 model, so I had to drill a couple of side mounting holes, then some more holes to mount some of the original (archaic) relays, and then another hole for the rear mounting of the Biltwell Banana seat. It needs yet more holes from

I also fitted new Venhill throttle cables the UK company made up for me. The cables were made using the remnants of the wrecked cables as a template.

Now I have to get it back to being road legal. G

Also already fitted:
The Speed Merchant triple clamps
Roland Sands Designs tracker exhaust
Roland Sands Design air cleaner
19in rear rim laced by Hagon
Biltwell Moto Bars
Biltwell Mushman footpegs
Biltwell Thruster grips
Chain conversion
Maxxis DT1 tyres
Harley XR1200 rear shocks
Alloy Art folding shift peg
Modified mid controls
Motone knurled filler cap
Motone mini Bates LED rear light (not pictured)

Willow Springs

Vintage FlatTrack @  Willow Springs raceway from STUDIOPAP'S on Vimeo.
From Dimitri C...

Check this beautiful n too short film essay shot and directed by my good friend Stephane "Paps" Flores

Stephane is one of the founder member of the BIG DADDY MIDGET MOTO CLUB

that we ran in Paris in the early 2K's.

And he was part of the trip to Catalina with Dr Oldschool, Le Admiral and myself almost six years ago already.

He showed up to Willow Spring one day in 2011 and shot some footage that he just put together.

Pretty smooth, I just wish it was longer.

DC67

Dirt Quake 2017

The date for Dirt Quake 2017 is 7-8 July (and perhaps something on Sunday 9th) at the Adrian Flux Arena, King's Lynn.

Entries will open in April next year. Exact date to follow. G

One-Off Wedensday

SOLD
One medium Beast T-shirt.
White screenprint on black T-shirt.
Artwork by Adi Gilbert.
New old stock.
No returns on one-off Wednesday items.

£15 plus post from the Sideburn webshop.