August meant Redcar, the most northerly track the DTRA visits. A lovely 300m speedway track with wide, long, banked turns and decent trackside facilities. We had an added incentive to make the long journey up country with a Friday evening show of 'sickle & surf film shorts put on by DTRA photographer and film maker Tom Bing and his pro surfer partner Sally, in a fine old Victorian Lifeguard museum on the coast at Tynemouth (see the blog post). On Saturday evening we were trea

The Peterborough round of the DTRA Championships is an event with a different atmosphere to any other round. Being part of the MCN Festival there are big crowds, lots of motorcycle industry involvement and the DTRA Flat track racing is the main live attraction. The Sideburn Vintage Class entry lined up 18 riders vying for a place in the 12 bike final. French Sideburn Ambassador Hubert Bastie #2 was back with his Husqvarna running reliably at last and was full of confidence af

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Photo: Paul France The DTRA circus rolled into the MCN Festival at Peterborough Showground with a spring in its step. Everyone was itching to go after Round 1 was scrubbed because of a waterlogged track: the weather forecast was good, being part of a bigger event adds to the occasion, but principally we had heard that Frank Chatokhine had arranged for The Legend That Is DAVE ALDANA #13 to come and ride the Aldana replica Trackmaster BSA A65 that Frank recently built for Oliv