We featured the all alloy Zaeta DT 450 of El Solitario on the cover of Sideburn 26, back in 2016. I asked the Spanish provocateurs why the bike was called Pluto. 'The smallest planet orbiting the sun (like a dirt track) is made of cool ice and black rock and loved the fact that they retired its planetary status,' replied El Solitario's founder, David Borras. Borras, rode the 450 single from Spain to Dirt Quake V at King's Lynn in 2016. How was that... 'Pluto is a primitive an

Photo: Heidi Lieberman Jimmy Hill’s business card reads ‘Can backflip, will travel’. He’s a moto stunter for hire, travelling the world, risking his neck, always with a smile under that bumfluff ‘stache. He was also the King of Dirt Quake USA one particular year when he turned up in his dad’s 40-year-old leathers, won the jump style competition on his father’s flat track Yamaha 500, a bike that hadn’t run for years (and his dad didn't know he'd 'borrowed'), then won the Super

Next week, one of our favourite companies, Davida, is launching its first ever full-face helmet. There are no still images and details are scant, until the launch at EICMA, Milan next week, so you have to just do with this video. It looks interesting though. The Koura is, Davida says, 'a race-bred, retro-inspired, high performance helmet, clearly identifiable as a Davida, with an exceptionally low profile and a strikingly bold styling that will be impossible to go unnoticed o

The incendiary Spanish outfit have released this new video, ostensibly to highlight Pluto, the Zaeta they modified. It's an avant garde mash-up of raunchy perfume ad out-takes, John Cale soundscapes and a reminder that front fenders are a very good idea if you want to ride under anything but blues skies. Contains tits and nuts. Viewer discretion is advised. Pluto made the trip from Spain to the East of England for Dirt Quake V. The memorable report of the road trip, the race,