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    Lelystad Training
    • Apr 3

    Lelystad Training

    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
    Rotterdam Dirtride
    • Dec 23, 2020

    Rotterdam Dirtride

    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
    Itchy Boots
    • Dec 14, 2020

    Itchy Boots

    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
    Dirtitis By LM Creations
    • Oct 26, 2020

    Dirtitis By LM Creations

    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
    The Edge
    • Jun 9, 2020

    The Edge

    Father and son bike builders, AMP Motorcycles, converted a 1999 Yamaha WR400 to short track spec to ride and race it at Dirt Track Lelystad in the Netherlands. We have the exclusive story and photos by Christine Gabler and Marc Holstein. To see the story click The Edge by AMP Motorcycles #Yamaha #Netherlands #Lelystad #EuroFlatTrack #EuroDirtTrack
    Lelystad Round 3
    • Sep 23, 2019

    Lelystad Round 3

    This weekend... The last Round of the Dirt Track Lelystad Flat Track Series is gonna be the real deal! On Saturday evening we have a BBQ with a live band and on Sunday we salute the first champions of the DTL Series while enjoying a live commentator! Camping will be free during the whole weekend. The Saturday training will be from 14:00 till 18:00, on Sunday the races will start at 11:00. You can register below at dirttracklelystad.com #Lelystad #Netherlands #Euroflattr
    Dirt Track Lelystad Race Series
    • Jun 15, 2019

    Dirt Track Lelystad Race Series

    More Euro Flat Track! This time in the Netherlands. Due to the overwhelming positive response to Hells Race we are now organizing a series of three weekends at Dirt Rrack Lelystad so you can keep your racing blood pumping. All weekend BBQ and music! Camping will be free during the whole weekend. The Saturday training will be from 14:00 till 20:00, on Sunday the races will start at 11:00 You can register below. More info at dirttracklelystad.com #Netherlands #Euroflatt
    DTRA European Champs
    • May 4, 2019

    DTRA European Champs

    Kicks off this weekend at Dirt Track Lelystad! #DTRA2019 #Euroflattrack #Lelystad #HellsRace #Netherlands
    Hells Race 2019
    • Apr 24, 2019

    Hells Race 2019

    Coming up soon. One of the best vibe races at one of my favourite race tracks, Dirt Track Lelystad. They are hosting the first round of the DTRA European Championships. If you're going you'll have a blast! Find out more at Hells Race Lelystad. Poster art: Ryan Quickfall We had Black Dots Video shoot this film there last year. #HellsRace #Netherlands #RyanQuickfall #DTRA2019 #DTRA #BlackDotsVideo
    Rusty Gold Swap Meet: This Weeekend
    • Jan 23, 2019

    Rusty Gold Swap Meet: This Weeekend

    Swap Meet Poster art by Sideburn regular contributor Lennard Schuurmans #Netherlands #LennardSchuurmans #RustyGold
    • Nov 4, 2018

    Robbie Maddison Does it Again

    The over-caffeinated brains of Red Bull HQ have come up with another incredible stunt to promote one of their events. This time Australian stunt legend (no, really, he is a legend), Robbie Maddison is dirt biking around the canals of the Netherlands. So good. #RobbieMaddison #Netherlands #Stunt
    Indian Sponsor Dirt Track Lelystad
    • Oct 30, 2018

    Indian Sponsor Dirt Track Lelystad

    Indian continue to support top-level and grassroots flat track and have announced they are sponsoring one of our favourite ovals, Dirt Track Lelystad in the Netherlands. This is from the press release... Lynda Provoost, Marketing manager for Indian Motorcycle Benelux said of the deal, “We have a really good relationship with the team at Dirt Track Lelystad. It’s not just sponsorship, but a true partnership and we are really looking forward to organising exciting events togeth
    Hooligan Hearbeat
    • May 18, 2018

    Hooligan Hearbeat

    Sideburn asked filmmaker James Cox to shoot Sideburn Hooligan racer Grant Martin at Hells Race, then explain his concept. This is what he said. it'll strike a chord with anyone who has raced motorcycles... 'Having shot a good number of flat track races in various locations over the last few years, one aspect of the day that always strikes me is that for the riders, their time is spent alternating between fairly long periods of quiet downtime and very intensive bursts of acti
    Hells Race Hooligans
    • May 16, 2018

    Hells Race Hooligans

    Photo: Ian Osborne. DTRA The only DTRA round to run at Hells Race was the Indian-sponsored Hooligan race. Having missed King's Lynn, because of a long-booked family holiday, it was my first hooligan race of the season, and boy have things progressed a lot since my last one. All the riders, except two, were from the UK. There were effectively seven 'sponsored' riders, those are riders on bikes they hadn't bought themselves. Photo: Ian Osborne. DTRA Lee Kirkpatrick (Krazy Horse
    Hells Race Road Trip Pt 3
    • May 16, 2018

    Hells Race Road Trip Pt 3

    I loved Hells Race in 2017, helped by good weather and a fun road trip with Anthony and Anna from the DTRA. Just about everyone who went last year loved it, word spread and twice as many people entered for 2018, riders coming from Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Spain, Switzerland and the UK (including Sideburn ambassador, John Harrison, above). And the weather was even better this year. The owners of Dirt Track Lelystad had changed the make-up of the track, adding, I
    Hells Race Road Trip Pt 2
    • May 13, 2018

    Hells Race Road Trip Pt 2

    After a super laidback drive from Bruges, we arrived in Amsterdam mid-afternoon. The first person we saw when we arrived at the Rusty Gold Motorshop was our mate Tom Bing, who was in the Dutch capital chasing down some stories in the days before the race on a borrowed Yamaha XSR900. Zoran handed out the Heineken. James had been slurping it in the driver's seat all the way from Hermanus, but this was my first little beer of the day and it tasted good. Rusty Gold's owner, Zoran
    Cool Kids Transalp
    • Mar 17, 2018

    Cool Kids Transalp

    This Honda Transalp 650 was built by Cool Kids Customs in the Netherlands and is the second Transalp I've seen this year that made me seriously consider buying one (the other was at SnowQuake). I saw the bike on Lenny Schuurmans'* Bubble Visor blog and he described the bike's components as 'Lego-coloured'. The distressed bodywork reminds me of flanks of an old fishing boat on a trailer. It could do with a front mudguard and rear fender to stop the rider being covered in Dutch
    Hells Race
    • Mar 2, 2018

    Hells Race

    Our Belgian friends are once again working with our Dutch friends again to promote the third annual Hells Race, the second at Speedway Lelystad, near Amsterdam. I went last year and had a great time. Practice Saturday, race Sunday. You need to buy a Netherlands race licence, it's a bit of a faff, but not too bad. Then pre-enter through hellsrace.com Then there's a whole series of race series for the rest of the year. Read our Hells Race Mega Post from last year's event. Post
    Arne's Arms
    • Dec 5, 2017

    Arne's Arms

    From Arne in Amsterdam... Nice to see Menze Kwint's art in the new Sideburn and how you continue to support the arts and its artists! Nice one! Funny enough both Menze and Lennard are my mates and I have a couple tattoos of their works. And somehow they are extremely related to Sideburn magazine. The first one I saw was Lennard's design and it was a Sideburn sticker and I loved it so much I got it tattooed. The other one I had done after I saw Menze’s sketches online. He was
    Bubble Visor at Flatlands Festival
    • Sep 25, 2017

    Bubble Visor at Flatlands Festival

    Blogs, remember them? Man, I miss the heyday of blogs. Instagram and facebook gone done killed most of them, but not all. We're still going at it, hammer and tongs, and Lennard Schuurman's Bubble Visor blog is still serving up dozens of photos at a time, both originals and those 'curated' from around the interwebs. These are just a handful of Lenny's own shots from the recent Flatlands Festival held at Lelystad Speedway, Netherlands. Raise your hands, type Yeah!, if you still
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