Jared Mees is a polarising presence in 21st century dirt track. Five National titles, and 53 National wins, put him in the third in overall wins behind Scott Parker and Chris Carr. Perhaps it's this dominance that people don't like, but he's not dominating now, due to a combination of Briar Bauman and injuries. Perhaps some of the animosity is due to the time he made an indiscretion (let's say cheated) when he was found to have run a doped tyre at Atlanta in 2018. He was caug

Following on from last weeks Best SB Photos of 2020 post, here are my ten favourite illustrations of the four issues we made in 2020. Sideburn has always used a lot of illustration, with some artists have only one appearance in the mag, others becoming regulars. Eight of these pieces were commissions, two were supplied as part of portfolio features. I've purposely only chosen one piece of work from each artist, and not included artwork we've used on our merch (which we also l

We have a great interview with Nichole Mees (Cheza when this photo was taken) in Sideburn 41. She was 5'1" tall and 15 years old when she started racing XR750s, crossing the border to Canada where the rules allowed her to race twins at that age. Buy Sideburn 41 #Sideburn41 #NicholeCheza #NicholeMees #XR750 #HarleyDavidson #womenwhorace

AFT pulled out the stops to create a full 18-round 2020 season, despite losing four months of it, but Covid-19 is giving them another runaround. The rescheduled Lima Half-Mile, which was going to be the second race weekend, has been postponed due to the virus. There is still hope the race will be rescheduled a second time. Lima is one of the races on the schedule that is promoted by a third party promoter, in this case Jared and Nichole Mees. We don't know the details of thi