There is always such a rush to get things out. I suppose there always has been. It's called 'news'. Now social media always wins the race, whether it's the first to 'announce' the death of celebrity or spoil the result of a race someone hasn't had chance to watch on catch-up. Back in the days of the old Sideburn blog I used to stay up late into the night posting reports from events and happenings as soon as I could. Then Instagram came along and made everything instant. We ke

Odgie's squat and purposeful BSA-based short tracker has had a whole heap of deep thought and shed-based finessing lavished upon it. And we feature it in the new issue, Sideburn 51. Odgie also supplies a supremely quirky look at his race day essentials in Right Stuff in the same issue. We profiled this English esoteric engineer back in Sideburn 29, when fellow occupant of the leftfield, Dave Bevan went to visit him. We have one or two of this previously sold out issue in the

Reader ad BSA A10 Oval Circuit bike. US import that was bought from a retired Oval Circuit Racer along with another, it’s pretty trick, the owner said it was an A10 (650) with an A7 (500) Top End, bored out and fitted with shorter con rods, so, short stroked and bored to rev better, he said this was the standard thing to do back then, I’ve not pulled it apart to confirm this, But, I can confirm it comes off the line like a scalded cat, I sourced a Catalina Petrol Tank to repl

I used to compile posts like this all the time, but then instagram stole their thunder, but let's try again, now that Instagram is losing it's shine. I attended a practice day at Greenfield today. The track was grippy as hell. I nearly kicked myself in the back of the head a couple of times when my hot shoe grabbed the damp clay. I wasn't entirely feeling it today, but it was still good to get out and see a few people. Above is a trio of Yams, two of which are currently on ou