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

Back in 2018, Estenson were still developing their Twins programme. Sammy Halbert had ridden for the team in 2017, but Jake Johnson replaced him for 2018. Jake wrote about his bike for Sideburn 33. That issue is one of those we have made free to read on Sideburn's ISSUU page. Follow this link to read the whole of Sideburn 33. Photo: Yve Assad #JakeJohnson #Yamaha #AmericanFlatTrack #Sideburn33 #EstensonRacing

This is one of the bikes you can read about for free in our newly free digital back issues. It is Ron Wood's last big project, the Wood Honda Africa Twin. It only raced one national, the final round of the 2017 season, with Chad Cose on board. We were there, with Scott Toepfer, and managed to get exclusive shots of the bike and also some time with Ron Wood. You can read the feature in Sideburn 31 - for free on the Sideburn ISSUU page. Photos: Scott Toepfer #RonWood #Honda #Ch

AFT have released a handful of updates to their rulebook in advance of combining the Twins classes. Below is the wording of individual changes and how we think it could affect things. First the new rule, then my take on it. Gary Inman, editor THE RULE The Racing Program: For the AFT SuperTwins class, the top 32 from combined qualifying will be seeded into two Heat races. The top 6 from each AFT SuperTwins Heat will advance directly to the Main. Riders finishing 7 – 16 in thei