The drag racing news site eatmyink.com has reported that Vance & Hines will not be running the factory Harley-Davidson flat track or NHRA drag racing teams in 2021. We have contacted Harley-Davidson for confirmation but have not received official confirmation yet, so we must stress this is nothing more than a rumour at this stage. While unconfirmed, if it is true it wouldn't come as a surprise. Vance & Hines has run the factory team since, 2017, the year the factory committed

Earlier this year, UK racer and friend of the mag, Nathalie Legrand spent a week at Johnny Lewis' Moto Anatomy school in Florida. She supplied a diary of the intense week. After a couple of months going to practice with my KTM 250, that George Pickering set up for me, I realised that if I wanted to be safer on the track and take on good habits, I needed some help. It can be overwhelming to hear different tips from different people when you start a new sport and you end up bei

We shot Jarod Vanderkooi's XG750R at Lima last year, just before JV20 knocked himself out and put himself out of the race. We also interviewed Terry Vance, of the legendary Vance & Hines, about the bike and the state of the official H_D Factory flat track team. Read about it in Sideburn 39. #xg750r #harleydavidson #aft2019 #edsubias #jarodvanderkooi #sideburn39 #vanceandhines

As much as we are fans of the XG750R (and we really are, featuring it in Sideburn 39) it is gaining something of a reputation for knocking a nail or two on the lid of some long racing careers. Very few riders have climbed off the water-cooled Harley and looked back at the experience fondly. The latest rider to move on from the official H-D Vance and Hines team is Sammy Halbert. Sammy scored two rare podiums for the bike, at the 2019 Perris Half-Mile and 2018 Buffalo Chip TT,