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Dec 22, 2020

Advertiser Profile: 5Special

We first ran into 5Special at Wheels and Waves and now they're an advertiser in the magazine. We also featured Lucia's trusted kit, in Sideburn 42's Racewear. We asked Lucia (above) a few questions about the 5Special. Who are 5Special? We are a small company, brother and sister, Sito and Lucía, from the Galician coast, Spain. Sito (below) is a professional in the motor sector, off-road driving instructor. Lucia is a marketing manager, fashion and web designer. Our brand was b

#98 Eric Rausch

Nov 30, 2020

#98 Eric Rausch

Our friend Sammy Sabedra sent us this... Pretty cool moment. Just weeks ago I was checking out Eric Rausch in Sideburn 42 wearing these exact leathers. Fast forward to yesterday - Eric got reunited with his old leathers when former racer Mike Varnes was cleaning out his dad's house and found them. Mike brought them over to the shop and Eric had zero idea he would be getting his old leathers back. It was a few minutes of good laughs when Eric took em off the hanger to try on a

Jonas's Co-Built XS650

Nov 21, 2020

Jonas's Co-Built XS650

Not since issue 1 and 2 have we had one person have two bikes is consecutive issues. Back at the launch of the mag it was Jason and his Bonneville Performance Hinckley Twin framer followed by his XR1000 street tracker. Now it's Jonas Hendrix (the Mexican, Dutch, Spaniard, Argentine) and his Harley-Davidson MX250 short tracker in SB42 and his Co-Built XS650 in SB43. Jonas's Co-Built XS (the only one in the world) is fitted with Sudo Cycles Deluxe fork guards, which we have in

Быстро и влево

Sep 28, 2020

Быстро и влево

That's fast and left in Russian by the way (which might upset the original Fast and Left). These are the Anker Company guys from St Petersburg, Russia, whose Trackmaster Triumph we feature in Sideburn 42. Read about the T100C went from California, to Russia, via Poland and Finland (because it's so hard to import bikes into Russia) in Sideburn 42. This track is Мототрек, Спортивное поле. 130Km, south-east from Moscow (the opposite side of Moscow from Anker Company in St Peter

Racing for the Bling

Sep 15, 2020

Racing for the Bling

I'm not a jewellery wearer, but I might change that for one of these. If you watch AFT's live feed you'll have heard Scottie Deubler mention the rings that Thom Duma, Fine Jewellers, one of the series sponsors, makes for the champs. These are the 2020 rings awaiting the class winners of SuperTwins, Singles and Production Twins. Thom Duma is also one of the Rookies Class of 79 charity that helps injured riders, and a national level racer in his day. That's him below, wearing D

Moroney's Fast Hogs

Sep 9, 2020

Moroney's Fast Hogs

When Sideburn launched, in early 2008, it was difficult for non-Americans to find out about flat track. US fans could travel to races and buy Cycle News, but there wasn't much more. Social media started to change that, then came Fanschoice.tv, introducing live racing to not only foreigners, but loads of Americans too. American Flat Track's website became a massive improvement of the former AMA Pro one, then regular podcasts appeared - Off The Groove and Tank Slappin'. Since l

Brelsford on the 750 Triple

Sep 2, 2020

Brelsford on the 750 Triple

Scott Brelsford shared this photo with us today. He's racing the Erv Kanemoto Champion-framed Kawasaki H2R 750 two-stroke. The bike he's racing against is a far more famous 750 two-stroke, and I'm pretty sure it's at Indy (UPDATE: It's not, its the main at San Jose). We interviewed Scott about the triple he raced and have a blueprint feature, drawn by Mick Ofield, of the Kawasaki in Sideburn 42. Brelsford shares what it was like racing the big two-stroke before Kenny Roberts'

5 Steps To Sudo

Aug 25, 2020

5 Steps To Sudo

Some, perhaps most, custom motorcycle magazines have a very 'insert tab A into slot B' of writing about the bikes they feature. 'I bought this bike from a guy for not very much money/loads of money, then me and my buddies chopped this and bolted that on...' That's fine, and it might be exactly what people want, but it's becomes too repetitive for me. I want to mix that approach with other themes, like how does a chopper-riding, tattoo-shop owner, who used to ride BMX professi

#42

Aug 17, 2020

#42

Sideburn 42 is coming soon and available for pre-order now. Why pre-order? Because Sideburn is a small, family-run company and this allows us to get your envelope addressed and ready to go, before the mags arrive from the printer and allows us to concentrate on stuffing envelopes and doing post office runs when they do arrive. It gets pretty intense when the pallets of magazines land. Oh, and because you're supporting a magazine against the unstoppable forces of facebook, ins

Breakfast of Champions

Aug 12, 2020

Breakfast of Champions

Breakfast of Champions. I'd read and repeated, the saying for years. British F1 star James Hunt famously had a patch on his racing overalls proudly claiming it was 'Sex'. Kurt Vonnegut wrote a book of the same name, but it was actually US breakfast cereal, Wheaties, who coined the phrase. To hammer home the link between sporting success and a first meal of the day consisting of wholegrain flakes, the makers of the cereal emblazoned their orange box with a photo of an athlete.

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