Guest post from Serge Faberge Honestly, this counts as off-topic as the best motorcycle connection found is a fairly standard for time promo shot of France Gall sat on a shiny new Suzuki T20. The song however, is not exactly standard. 'Teenie Weenie Boppie', is a supposed warning against LSD written for Ms. Gall by the mighty Serge Gainsbourg in 1967. At the time she was moving away from the poppy yé-yé sound. It's a fun little track, suitably odd but the video takes it to ne

Indian Motorcycle have launched a custom competition they want you to vote in*, and if you do vote, you have a chance to win the finished custom bike. Pretty neat, if you ask us. They have asked four French custom builders to create custom design concepts for their Indian Chief. The winning design will be made in time for the 2021 Wheels and Waves event. There is a public vote, and a 'super vote' made by a panel to decide the winning design. The panel includes Indian design b

I think I first met Gianluca of Tredici Custom Castings at the Café Racer Festival in Paris. I loved the sand cast items he was displaying on his small booth under the boiling hot sun. Or perhaps I had already met him when he came to the UK to race during one of the Dirt Quake weekends. We featured his Grey Coffin Bultaco in SB19, and also super-minimal Suzuki DR600 he built for a customer in SB31. The first time I saw his sand castings I wanted him to do something for Sidebu

CELINE, formerly Céline, is a French fashion brand founded in 1945, and now owned by the LVMH Conglomerate (Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy, which owns dozens of drink, fashion, watch, even yacht companies). I glimpsed a clip of the film above, with the FMX riders, and investigated further. The 14-minute film is an imaginative Covid-era take on the traditional catwalk show, the company parading its next season clobber for industry buyers and customers. If you're not into the clot