Note: John is such a stereotypically modest Englishman he didn't want to write about his first ever win in the DTRA Vintage class, so he wrote using a nom de plume. This, of course, is ridiculous, so I edited his copy back from the third person. Congrats John, you rode like a demon. GI June's Vintage DTRA round became a non-championship points-scoring at the Greenfield TT because the scheduled Saturday was rained off and a key championship contender couldn't make the reschedu

Apologies for the lack of blog posts recently. My concurrent career, as a writer for hire, has been particularly demanding, so I went straight from finishing a big project, and few some smaller ones, into the last two weeks of production of the next issue of Sideburn (#34, out on 4 September). Plus my two offspring and I left on Friday morning for the five hour drive to South Wales, to race with the DTRA. Something had to give. But we're back, at the start of the last week of

Sideburn Vintage Class at Amman Valley from the inside. As round 6 drew ever closer I found my self eagerly anticipating the DTRA's annual trip to South Wales and THE BIG TRACK. I have always considered my Triumph (104) to be a 'half mile special', and had pleasant memories of stretching it's legs in third gear at Amman last year. Regrettably the burgeoning Vintage class was somewhat depleted in Wales and we missed not having the likes of regulars John Boddy and Paul Harriso

I'll put getting the holeshot in front of that packed grid of DTRA talent down to reading Johnny Lewis's Get Schooled in Sideburn 21. We have the world's best riders giving us riding tips in the Get Schooled section in every issue. Here's what you might have missed (the number is the issue of the magazine)... 21 Get the Holeshot with Johnny Lewis 22 How to Crash with David Aldana 23 Draft to Victory with Bryan Smith 24 Short Track badassery with Briar Bauman 25 Body English w