I wasn't tuned into the old Harley market when the exodus of Knuckles, Pans and Shovels were leaving the USA by the container-load, heading for the Tokyo docks, and Japanese builders and customisers, who, at the time, were more appreciative of these older Harleys than a lot of US riders. This was the height of fat tyre, OCC, Exile, West Coast Choppers. The Japanese sidestepped it and were grooving on the old bikes that, now America has gone mad for them, prices have quadruple

Belgian firm Trevor Motorcycle have released images of prototypes of their electric dirt tracker and street tracker. The project has several respected names attached to it. The trellis frames were made by Workhorse SpeedShop and the electric motor expertise and production came from Sarolea, who have competed in the Electric Isle of Man TT races. The bike was styled by John McInnis, who both designed the Blatant Motors Death Rattle on the cover Sideburn 40, and photographed th

It's been a busy week, finishing the next issue of Sideburn, and everything that entails, plus day job and, of course, family stuff. So apologies for taking so long to post about Hells Race. Here is the start of multipiece MEGA POST though... The trip out to last weekend's Hells Race, in the Netherlands, started stupidly early. I set my alarm for 2am, made a coffee, moved the car that was blocking my van in the drive and left to meet James of Black Dots Video, at Thurrock Ser

Bram De Roeck is a fellow DTRA racer, co-organiser of Hell's Race and the photographer of the cover and intro page for Sideburn 30. We interviewed him to find out more about our Belgian friend... Hi Bram, tell us about yourself My name is Bram De Roeck and live in Brasschaat, a small town near Antwerp, Belgium. I’m 44 year old and work in shifts in a petro-chemical plant in the harbour of Antwerp. Married to my beautiful wife Lesley and we have two kids, Alick (19) and Lena (