Switzerland has a very strange relationship with motorsport. The country banned virtually all forms of motorised racing within their borders, after the 1955 Le Mans 24-hour tragedy, that resulted in the deaths of 84 people*. In the decades since there have only been time trial hillclimb events, where one vehicle is on the course at a time, until a relaxation in 2015, that allowed electric vehicle racing (how very Swiss). Somehow, the imaginative Swiss Dirt Track Association (

Q&A with David Maric, owner of Moto Candy, a store and Sideburn stockist in Switzerland. When did Moto Candy open? Originally it was in April 2018, but due to a poor location choice and not stocking the big brands, people did not really come over, so I decided to leave that place in November. So for a while everything was stored away. For a while we had a shop in shop concept, but after summer we had to leave that too, but have now the showroom we see on the pictures. I am ve

Off-topic Sunday on a Sunday. Sideblog nerds will know my fondness for overtly masculine shows of peacockery that crossover into closeted flamboyance. The drum majors, the Indian border guards... This is next level, though. FC Luzern are a Swiss football team with, like many European, and even US, teams, a group of fanatical 'ultras'. Ultras used to be short hand for politicised Italian hooligans, often right-wing, but sometimes not (depending on the team). They gained notori