Odgie's squat and purposeful BSA-based short tracker has had a whole heap of deep thought and shed-based finessing lavished upon it. And we feature it in the new issue, Sideburn 51. Odgie also supplies a supremely quirky look at his race day essentials in Right Stuff in the same issue. We profiled this English esoteric engineer back in Sideburn 29, when fellow occupant of the leftfield, Dave Bevan went to visit him. We have one or two of this previously sold out issue in the

It hasn't got any less busy at Sideburn HQ, so again, apologies for the dearth of posts. Here's one of my snaps from last weekend's race at Peterborough. I'm loving racing as much as I have for the last 15-16 years, possibly more. I'm not sure what to put this down to, except both my bikes are running well, I'm doing OK, I feel like I'm riding well, and except for home/days out with family, there's probably nowhere I'd rather be that the DTRA pits with my friends. The clickba

I meant to post this a few weeks ago, but things ran away from me. This is what Odgie, one of the organisers, says: Yes, the Dirt Diggers crew are at it again, with this year’s version of Dirt Diggers, subtly titled #5 Dig For Victory (spot the Roman reference then...?). All the usual fun and frivolity, with classes ranging from Chopper to Inappropriate Road Bike, Dirt Bike to Scooter, as well as full-on competition classes for the fastest flat track bikes in the country. Oh

From Odgie, one of the forces behind the Dirt Diggers event (and as journalist editor of Back Street Heroes and AWOL magazine. He (not this bike) was featured in SB29). This is what he says... Okay, lockdown’s ending, race dates are out, season’s coming... I’ve half-heartedly offered this up before, but now I actually want the money for something else, so this is a serious attempt to sell it. It’s a genuine Cotterell Brothers (C&J-style) Rotax framer built with all the right