American Flat Track racer Nick Armstrong has done something we believe hasn't been done for at least 45 years, if ever. He built a race bike chassis with his own hands and then won a national dirt track race on it. Name someone else who has done that. Not owned the company who built the chassis (Kenny Roberts), or who was a racer who built a chassis someone else won on (Mert Lawwill, among others), but cut, bent and welded the frame, then raced it to a win. In Nick's case, wi

The AFT season finale is this weekend. We boil down the details. SUPERTWINS Four SuperTwins riders are separated by 22 points going into this weekend's Volusia Half-Mile double-header. With 25 points available for Friday and the same for Saturday, plenty could happen. STANDINGS 1 Jared Mees - IND - 261pts 32 Dallas Daniels - YAM - 245pts 95 JD Beach - YAM - 243pts 3 Briar Bauman - IND - 239pts Multiple time, and current champ Mees has a 16pt advantage over super-rookie Dallas

Want to feel old? AFT released data after the recent Lima Half-Mile that included the combined age of the three riders on the AFT Singles class podium. Winner, Kody Kopp, 2nd place Australian wild card rider, Tom Drane, and third place Chase Saathoff's combined age was less than 51 years. The next AFT race is this weekend, the NY Short Track at Weedsport. Fanschoice is no longer free (like it used to be for those outside the US), but if you subscribe you can watch the races a

We're two rounds into the 2022 AFT season, and the SuperTwins season is already very intriguing. The close season saw a raft of rule changes to limit the performance of the Indian FTR750, and increase the scope of tuning for teams using road bike-based engines - primarily Yamaha at the moment. And looking at the winners of the two races, Briar Bauman at Volusia, Jared Mees (above) at Saturday's Texas Half-Mile, it could be assumed that nothing much has changed, but that would