I've only just learned about WWII era glider snatching, so I'm assuming some of you won't know about it. Watch this short film, from 1949, and learn. It's flipping brilliant. #WWII #aircraft #offtopic #milspec #military

Around this time last year regular Sideburn contributor Dave Bevan was dropping 'a tab of genuine SF junkie acid' in preparation to research a report about El Rollo and Wheels and Waves for Sideburn 34. For the new issue, SB37, we sent him to interview our hero, inspirational guru, entertainments officer and de facto spirit animal, Dave Skooter Farm. If you don't know much, or anything, about Dave Skooter Farm you are missing out, but Dave Bevan's feature in a great primer to

Earlier this year I spent a day on a motorcycle event like none I've tried before. Organised by Past Tracks MC, the premise was to honour the skills and abilities needed to become a WW2 Armed Forces Despatch Rider, a role no longer required of course. Based at the fabulous Sammy Miller Motorcycle Museum in the New Forest, the day consisted of four tests. Riding skills - slow speed stuff round cones at a nearby mo'bike training school. Off road riding - a couple of miles on fo

Until retro really became popular, ironically, around the start of the 21st Century (boy), motorcycles were about aiming at the future, stretching the throttle cable as tight as a banjo string and not looking back (except to see if that blue BMW you whipped past at 120mph was an unmarked police car). Now the headline-grabbing bikes are as likely to have been styled with 40, 50, or in this case, nearly 70 year-old design cues as truly modern thinking. Royal Enfield is a compan