Sideburn tester and poet, Travis Newbold has finished a new project and supplied this blog post that was written in chunks over a year and posted on his own 747Rider blog. I was just starting to settle in to my new shop, filling up wall space with posters, arranging my motorcycle feng shui, of course feeding my constant fetish for hoarding junk. Now that I have my own yard the first thing I did was go drag my Pop's old 1956 Willys jeep out of the field and start to finish wha

Travis Newbold 2017 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb Practice Photo: Jon Wallace #JonWallace #PikesPeak #TravisNewbold #Colorado #Hillclimb

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

We're expecting a story from Travis about his 2018 Pikes Peak that we will put in our STORIES section. The good news, despite one rider's heavy crash, there were no motorcycle fatalities on America's Mountain (TM) this year, and Travis came second in class. So, for now, here is a short update for the all the fans of Sideburn's poet... GI Pikes Peak was a very fun experience this year. I’m in Kansas right now getting Rachel moved into her apartment where she will be spending n