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So Cal Hooligan Scene Report

Feb 6, 2020

So Cal Hooligan Scene Report

Sideburn contributor Ed Subias sent this great hooligan update. Last Saturday, 1st February, some of the Californian hooligan racers came together at a race that was more of a low key test and tune session than a competition. The hooligans were a support race during the AMA National Pairs Speedway Championship at Perris Raceway. Sounds a little strange at first but paring the speedway and hooligan clans made perfect sense to me. Both groups are full of interesting characters

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First ever SuperHooligan race, November 2015.

Dec 24, 2019

First ever SuperHooligan race, November 2015.

Ed Subias, above, is a regular Sideburn contributor, he shot Jarod Vanderkooi's factory H-D XG750R and interviewed Terry Vance for Sideburn 39. He remembers the first ever Superhooligan race. Las Vegas. The night Hooligan racing jumped the shark, we just didn't know it yet. I failed to make it out of my heat race and into the main so decided to let loose. A few of us did in fact, upsetting the nearby pit entourage that was with Roger Lee Hayden who was participating in the il

Harley Street Tracker Concept

Nov 7, 2019

Harley Street Tracker Concept

At this week's EICMA bike show in Milan, Harley pushed a couple of 2020 models we'll cover soon, but elsewhere on the huge stand was this design sketch a couple of observant Sideburn contributors* spotted. It's a pure concept, and as such the proportions could be all out of kilter, but Harley don't put clues like this without thinking hard about what they're doing. The engine appears to be the new Revolution Max 60-degree engine, that will debut late-2020. It has a street tra

Flashback: Dirt Quake USA 2

Oct 14, 2019

Flashback: Dirt Quake USA 2

My memory is not so good, so it's hard to say if Dirt Quake USA 2 was the craziest motorcycle event I've ever been to, but looking at this resurfaced 15-second clip, filmed by Sideburn contributor Ed Subias, it makes me think it probably was. Let me set the scene. This was, as the name suggests, the second Dirt Quake USA. We co-organised the event with our friends at See See Motorcycles and held it at the famous Castle Rock race track in Washington state. The track is an hour

They all look the same, right?

Sep 28, 2019

They all look the same, right?

Eagle-eyed Sideburn contributing photographer, Ed Subias spotted something hokey with an official Indian T-shirt. Somethings had changed, some had remained. IT bugged him till he could get online to check. Ed is a photographer with some kind of photographic memory and was sure he remembered the original photo. His internet search confirmed it. The rider was Bryan Smith, from around eight years ago, when Smith was a Harley-Davidson rider! The Screaming Eagle logo on Smith's le

Sons of Speed

Jul 3, 2019

Sons of Speed

We featured the Sons of Speed, in Sideburn 34, when Ed Subias covered a race in Florida for us. The Sons of Speed are a group of American racers committed to restoring, preserving and thrashing the spuds off 100-year-old board track racers. The boardtracks, aka murderdromes, are all gone but the group use banked tarmac ovals, like New Smyrna in Florida, and also race dirt ovals. The film below gives insight into the group and the founding members. BUY SIDEBURN 34 #Boardtrack

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