Sideburn and Indian Motorcycle UK are collaborating to build a wild Indian FTR street tracker. We have partnered with world-renowned customiser, Toshiyuki "CHEETAH" Osawa to make it a show-stopper. Claire D’auria from Indian Motorcycle UK says, ‘We’ve always had a great relationship with Sideburn and when the idea for this FTR build was first discussed, we all knew it would be a very special project. It’s also very exciting to have Cheetah involved in the project bringing his

Sideburn art ed, Andy Garside, tests the Herald Brute 500. As a full-time van-lifer… gah, I don't like that tag. Let me start again. We don’t live in a house, we live in a self-converted-camper van, and now spend our time travelling between the UK and Europe in Brexit-allocated 3 month blocks. It was during our late-autumn/early-winter visit back in Wales that the opportunity to have a bike on test arose. As a relatively new rider my experience of ‘road’ bikes is quite slim.

This is our final best of round-up, following the Best Spreads and Best Artwork of 2022. Photos are much harder to choose, because we use far, far more of them. Like previous years, this is our third at choosing Best ofs, I've decided not to use old photos, even though we run some very evocative ones. These are either specially shot for us, or contemporary photos we've tracked down and used. If you haven't seen the posts already, take a look at the Best SB Spreads of 2022, ch

When we made Sideburn issue 1 people asked me about running out of material to fill the issues. I didn't really worry about it, because A, I didn't have a plan for the future. B, Even though we are a magazine focussed around dirt trackers and street trackers we cover current stuff and history, winners and losers, legends and nobodies, plus art and culture (and films and adventure and the industry...). That's a lot to go at. Which leads to Sideburn 51 and this bike. Is it the