Our friend at Dirt Track Lelystad Training are organising lots of practices, and ready to host races again soon. The firs is a training weekend on 1-2 May. They say... Come and join us for the training weekend , where the track will be open for 5 hours per day. This weekend will also include evening training with the newly installed lights. After the day is done and everyone has had their fun on the track, relax and enjoy the BBQ, Music with all the other riders. Make sure yo

Somewhat late posting this, but there's news at the bottom that makes it relevant. Rotterdam Dirtride held its third running in September 2020, a successful, very Dirt Quakey event at an eye-catching location in the Netherlands' second city. Co-organizer Gideon Schipaanboord says, 'Just like in previous years, we wanted to make it an accessible and above all fun two-day motorcycle and family event, which was quite a challenge this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but it mor

Our pal Mikael Dijkstra, Dutch racer, Euro and DTRA race-winner, has set up a flat track school in his native Netherlands. The school recently welcomed a motorcycle YouTuber, Itchy Boots, for a lesson. So far, so normal, except Itchy Boots, a 30-something former round-the-world rider named Noraly Schoenmaker, has 621,000 subscribers on YouTube and her 19-minute report from the flat track school had been watched 41,000 times in less than 12 hours. Think of the crossover appeal

Yes, Sideburn loves the no-expense-spared factory race bikes, but deep-down budget bikes are what really do it for us. Taking something unfashionable, improbable, unloved and riding it hard is the kind of joy that the Pebble Beach collector crowd don't get. So, when we saw Dirtitis by Luuc of LM Creations we were all over it. It's a Honda XL500, bought cheap and modified for dirt track, and we have the full story and great photos in our STORIES section. Click LM Creations Dir