Taken from a report by Claudia Meza on Oregon Public Broadcasting. As Iggy Pop’s “Lust for Life” played loudly, people couldn’t help but bop their heads. Gary Inman gave more than a bop. He snaked around his table, accenting drum hits with jump-kicks and air headbutts. That’s what first caught my eye. As I approached his table mesmerized by his off-kilter dancing and fully intending to find out everything about him, a spread of colorful magazine covers soon distracted me. Inm

Todd Marella reports from the One Show and its races. It’s early February in Portland, OR, and to many, there is but one event in town: The One Moto. Brainchild of Thor Drake, and labour of love to many, the motorcycle builder’s showcase has become one of the premier moto shows, the world over. Accounts flourish, rightly so, accurately reporting on the builders, their bikes, and the stories behind them. This is not one of those reports. This is a look through a very small ape

Next month's One Motorcycle Show in Portland, Oregon is hosting the country's first electric 'national' flat track race. We featured electric flat track back in Sideburn 29 when our test animal Travis Newbold raced an Alta flat tracker at the One Pro races at Salem in February 2017. For the first time in its 11-year history, the show and races will be in the same venue, the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Portland. Get tickets for the One Moto Show. We were also at the Alta's d

An update from Todd Marella on the 2019/2020 amateur winter race scene in Salem, Oregon. It’s December 26 and the rush from Christmas is dissipating (damn it, I love Christmas), and it occurred to me that I still hadn’t summed up last week’s activities in the 250 Vintage class at Salem Speedway. The class feels a bit skeleton like, to be sure, as the defending champ, Chris DeSanty, has been absent since the first race getting his Panther outfitted with a two-stroke motor, rep