AFT has announced Yamaha as title sponsor of this weekend's Atlanta Short Track. It led me to wonder how much we should read into Yamaha's increased interest in flat track. There is a possibility it's all a marketing precursor to an MT-07 based modern street tracker, that resembles the Estenson MT-07 DTs of Johnson, Beach (above) and Carlile? Or is the radically modern MT-07 DT so far away from the traditional view of a flat track race bike that the MT range of road bikes wil

You love to drink deeply from the dirt track knowledge well, but you don't want to pay the postage for the physical magazine or perhaps you risk an anaphylactic shock if you touch premium weight paper and top quality printing. So, now you can buy the digital version of the current issue, SB35, for £2.50, to keep forever (or until the world descends in a soup of chaos and the internet is turned off). BUY DIGITAL SB35 This is the run down of the contents... COVER: Steph Bolam o

The 2019 American Flat Track season will have one less manufacturer involved than in the 2018 season, because the Lloyd Brothers have called time on their Ducati project. In a personal email to Sideburn, team boss and co-founder, David Lloyd wrote... Thank you so much for the amazing space in the current Sideburn magazine. I truly appreciate your passion for the sport and the interest in our team. It is with a very heavy heart that I inform you that our Ducati project is dea

We love nerding out on the bits of AFT data we can get our hands on or reading between the lines of rule changes and wondering what cause or effect they'll have. The 121-page 2019 AFT rulebook was published recently and there are a couple of interesting changes that caught our eye. 18 into 16 Perhaps the rule change fans will notice the most is reducing the number of riders in the Main from 18 to 16. There's always a chance a rider can use a 'provisional start', the get out o