The King of the Baggers race went off on Saturday and MotoAmerica posted the full 8-laps of Laguna Seca online. It's a heck of a race. Want to see a pro road racer backing it 800lb of tuned V-twin touring machine? Course you do. We were also sent these photos of the official S&S-prepared Indian, and part of me is nodding in appreciation. Are bagger road racers the new hooligan dirt trackers? I can guarantee they won't survive a crash as well as a Sportster. GI #Indian #Rolan

Some of our favourite companies have just on the crazy idea of racing bagger V-twins at the world famous Laguna Seca race track as a support class of the MotoAmerica series. S&S, Indian, Vance and Hines, The Speed Merchant, Saddlemen, Roland Sands Designs and others have built heavyweight race bikes and some have signed up serious racers, including former World Superbike racewinner, Ben Bostrom (above and below). The race takes place today (Saturday). We'll share highlights w

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

I tried to do this at Mablethorpe, when I helped make The Beach, but dropped the videographer's expensive sound recorder into the sodden salty sand and that was the end of that (and the £120 to repair it). This is Chris Wiggins, Icon and The Speed Merchant team rider, original SoCal Hooligan, Vance & Hines machinist and quite the shrinking violet. In this film he is racing at the DirtQuake USA round of the Superhooligan National Championship. That's Scott Baker, national #11