The story of Sideburn's latest cover shoot starts with a conversation I had with Sarah, a lady at a company I was working with. She told me her boyfriend was a photographer and he liked bikes. I've seen a lot of photographers over my 25 years of motorcycle journalism, so I was polite, but didn't expect much. The partner turned out to be Ollie Porter (aka Ollie Portis) and when I visited his website, my mind began racing. This guy wants to work with Sideburn? The images were m

It was only two weeks ago (in a post about AFT's 2019 rules) we described AFT's Production Twins as a 'somewhat half-arsed stepping stone class for AFT Singles riders to get on twins'. Today the series announced that the class will grow from a frankly pitiful two race 'championship' it was in 2018 to a full 11-round series for 2019. AFT Production Twins is aimed at younger racers, brought up on 450 production bikes to get a taste of twins and custom built flat track framers b