The UK flat track scene has attracted interesting people from a broad range of backgrounds and occupations for a long time. There are the tradesmen you'd perhaps expect of a grassroots, grubby bike sport, but the numbers are bolstered by a fashion designer, pilots (numerous), artists, tattooists, set designers, a doctor, photographers (numerous) and the owner/founder of an internationally renowned design consultancy. The latter is Adam Brinkworth - who races in both vintage

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

The story of Bryan Smith's second season as an important part of the Indian Wrecking Crew is an interesting one. At this point last year, the Indian team's first full season, it was a toss up between Smith and Mees who was going to be the champion. This season Mees has 7 wins, one second and one disqualification from nine rounds. Smith has none and is sitting in sixth in the title race, behind his team-mate Baker (sitting in third) and three Indian-mounted privateers - Wiles,

Our good friends at Biltwell thought they'd enter a Harley Sportster 883 in the NORRA Mexican 1000 Desert Race. Why? Why not? They're a chopper company, but nearly everyone who works there also rides dirt bikes, of various ages, XR400s being big favourites. They regularly mess about at dirt track too, going on race schools together. Anyway, with the help of their in-house mechanic, and adventure mobile fiend, Rouser Rob, they've made a monster and called it Frijole - Mexican