Back in 2018, Estenson were still developing their Twins programme. Sammy Halbert had ridden for the team in 2017, but Jake Johnson replaced him for 2018. Jake wrote about his bike for Sideburn 33. That issue is one of those we have made free to read on Sideburn's ISSUU page. Follow this link to read the whole of Sideburn 33. Photo: Yve Assad #JakeJohnson #Yamaha #AmericanFlatTrack #Sideburn33 #EstensonRacing

Earlier this week we reported how unpredictable the 2020 AFT Singles was. We believe there is not even a hint of a dominant week in, week outr acewinner yet. AFT SuperTwins is far more easy to bet on. The winner is going to be on an Indian FTR750. Four races, four Indian wins, two to Mees two to current #1 Briar Bauman. Out of the 12 possible podium positions so far in 2020, only one position has been filled by a non-Indian rider, Bryan Smith's third place at the second Indy

This Indian FTR750 appeared on a facebook marketplace for sale yesterday, posted by an Estenson mechanic and former national racer, Brandon Bergen. The price is $53,000 (£41,750, €46,500), but maybe you could haggle down to $50K. It doesn't give many details in description, but perhaps this is the bike Jake Johnson won the Buffalo TT and came third at Peoria at in the 2018 season (when Estenson allowed Jake to swap between the Yamahas the team is more linked to and an Indian

Cory Texter is not only the 2019 AFT Production Twins champion, Sideburn columnist and podcaster, he's a total flat track nerd. Who better to recommend flat track race highlights on YouTube to watch? The Daytona Short Track in 2002 was nothing short of epic. Flat track was in a weird transitional period at that time. Many of the top riders were still riding Rotax-powered racebikes, but the emergence of the motocross-framed DTX bikes were being put in production as seen with J