This is the official helicopter footage from the 2018 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. I had to turn the music off, but the film is worth watching to get a grip on the scale of the hillclimb. Remember, the track measures 12.42 miles (19.99 km) and has 156 turns, climbing 4,720 ft (1,440 m) from the start at Mile 7 on Pikes Peak Highway, to the finish at 14,110 ft (4,300 m), on grades averaging 7.2% FURTHER READING Sideburn 30 - Travis Newbold and the Bottpower XR-1R Sideb

Photo: Brapp Snapps The 96th running of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb takes place today. Even though the motorcycle class has shrunk over recent years, there are some heavyweights racing this year, including the current and previous course record holders, Chris Fillmore and Carlin Dunne. Our own former class winner Travis Newbold (above), racing a 450 Honda and aiming for a class win. Plus Deus Ex Machina's custom builder extraordinaire, Michael 'Woolie' Woolaway, i

We've covered Pikes Peak a number of times in the magazine, first when Dimitri Coste raced there (SB10), next when we followed Guy Martin and his turbo Suzuki out there and we put him the Sam Christmas photo of the cover of SB18; then SB22 when Travis wrote about racing the Ronin up the mountain to a podium place; then most recently in SB30 where Travis wrote the story of his life about the ride of his life on the Kriega-sponsored Bottpower Pikes Peak Special. We guess you l

We're working hard to finish the next issue of your favourite magazine, that will be out in August. What will certainly be one of the most memorable features we've ever run has been written by our man in Colorado, Travis Newbold. As we've mentioned before, Sideburn heard from Kriega that they were sponsoring Bottpower's project to race one of the Buell-powered, high-end street tracker/streetfighters at Pikes Peak. I asked who was riding and Dom from Kriega said he wasn't sure