It has taken three and a half seasons for the Harley-Davidson XG750R to win a National level flat track race. It finally happened last night, but not in the premier class. In only his second race on the Black Hills H-D (supported by Vance and Hines) liquid-cooled twin, Dalton Gauthier took the win at the Sacramento Mile in AFT's Production Twins category. The bikes Gauthier and Rispoli are racing, under the Black Hills banner, are recent factory XG750s, with the single overhe

A rain-filled weather forecast has caused the promoters of this Saturday's Sacramento Mile to postpone the race until 10 August. That means: A. The next Twins race is the Springfield Mile 1 at the end of May (with the singles racing the TT the day before). B. Teams will have four races in less than two weeks in August. 4th Buffalo Chip TT, 6th Black Hills HM; 10th SacMile; 17th Peoria TT. That is really going to benefit the bigger teams with resources, budgets and manpower to

The 2016 champion was missing from the So Cal Half-Mile on Saturday, the second race he, or his team, have decided to sit out this season. Giving the Super TT a swerve was somewhat understandable if they were struggling, and they seem to be. Bryan Smith's weakest discipline are TTs, but missing this half-mile was harder to fathom. Smith is well known to be a mile specialist, but in his title-winning season he scored a first, second and fourth at half-mile tracks. He did fail

Just over a week until the Daytona TT kicks off the 2019 season. We read a good interview with Dan Bromley on the AFT website. He won the singles series with very little support, racing half the events with only his girlfriend to help him, no mechanic, nothing. His reward for winning the title is a place on the official KTM team for 2019. This anecdote really stood out. A quite memorable one happened at the Sacramento Mile. I started the day crashing in my second qualifier an