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Inman Column: Running a Marathon in Clogs

Nov 24, 2020

Inman Column: Running a Marathon in Clogs

Regular blog readers will know I've been a columnist for magazines including Café Racer, GQ Italia, Rolling Stone Italy and Bike over the years. Some I packed in, others dried up with editors changed. I still contribute to Café Racer in France as I have for over ten years. Every now and then I repost the columns here. This one is from 2019. Type Inman Column into the search bar to see the others. GI Three years ago I was at the first Dirt Track Riders Association race of the

Triumph to Race AFT in 2021

Nov 4, 2020

Triumph to Race AFT in 2021

I posted a somewhat flippant comment on instagram the other day under super photos of Mikey Martin on the Bonneville Performance Triumph twin, from a feature in Sideburn 11. I wrote, 'We’ve been making Sideburn so long we remember when Triumph used to race.' The bike we featured competed in the 2012 season, but the last time, we believe, a Triumph scored points in the GNC was at Springfield, 4 September 2016, an 8th with Jake Shoemaker on board. AFT commentator Scottie Deuble

Danny Hard9 Tiger Cub

Oct 22, 2020

Danny Hard9 Tiger Cub

We've featured so many neat bikes in the 12 years and 42 mags we've been doing this. Every now and then I'm going to post up a few tasters from back issues we still have in stock. First up is this neat 1958 Tiger Cub from Sideburn 8. It was built by Danny Hard9, at a time few people were building custom vintage racers, especially not 250s. We shot it at the Motorbike Expo in Verona. BUY SIDEBURN 8 Photos: Ben Part #Triumph #tiddler #Italy #MotorBikeExpo #VeronaShow #DannyHard

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

Inman Column: Black Lives Matter

Aug 11, 2020

Inman Column: Black Lives Matter

This is one of the occasional posts where I share a column I wrote for French magazine, Café Racer and it is shared here with the kind permission of Café Racer's editor and owner, Bertrand. I wrote this on 4th June and it appears here unchanged. There is a reference to BAME (Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic), a phrase widely used in the UK (including by the BBC) but has also been questioned in recent months. The former Triumph PR staffer I referred to is Lance Jones, that's him

HookieCo Tiger - Before & After

May 7, 2020

HookieCo Tiger - Before & After

One of the dream race bikes in Sideburn 40 is Hookie Co's 1967 Triumph T100R. German firm Hookie Co are better known for their transformative bolt-on bodykits for modern bikes, but they don't limit themselves to just that. As you can see, the Triumph twin has great poise. Other than being in SB40, there is another link to Sideburn. Hookie explain that they found the basis to the bike on this very blog. It was one of the many flat track bikes reader Kev H feeds our way and we

Inman Column: Beginner Friendly

Nov 4, 2019

Inman Column: Beginner Friendly

Regular blog readers will know I've been a columnist for magazines including Café Racer, GQ Italia, Rolling Stone Italy and Bike over the years. Some I packed in, others dry up with editors changed. I still contribute Café Racer in France as I have for about a decade. Every now and then I repost the columns here. This one is from earlier this year, referring to a launch I attended in December 2018. It's still relevant. Type Inman Column in the search bar to see the others The

DTRA Vintage Finale Report

Sep 25, 2019

DTRA Vintage Finale Report

Held under the vast, cloudless Lincolnshire sky at George Pickering's Greenfield oval, the final round of the DTRA National Championship was also the ultimate round of the inaugural DTRA European Championship, which meant that we had a bumper 30 bike entry in the Sideburn sponsored Vintage Class. With riders coming from Germany, Switzerland and France to join most of the British regulars (and some welcome irregulars). There were going to be 18 disappointed riders not making

Brad Pitt (The Sideburn Connection)

Sep 19, 2019

Brad Pitt (The Sideburn Connection)

This month's US edition of GQ magazine has a cover story interview with actor Brad Pitt. The leading men's style magazine yet again reanimated the corpse of Steve McQueen by having Pitt dressed like McQueen once did, sat on a motorcycle. GQ needed a bike as a prop, and rather than going the easy route and using a modern Triumph Scrambler, they tracked down Hayden Roberts of Hello Engine, who is one of the leading authorities on 1960s desert racers, and borrowed the TR6/B Hayd

SB38 PRE-ORDER

Sep 4, 2019

SB38 PRE-ORDER

The magazine won't land until next week, but we're putting it up on pre-order now if you want to get in now and be sent out with the first wave. ORDER SIDEBURN 38 Some issues of Sideburn include dashes of film, art, adventure or leftfield moto culture with a core of flat track. Others are pure flat tracker and street tracker. Sideburn 38 is the latter. Page after page after page of dirt track racing with a dash of jawdropping street tracker in the middle. COVER: Koolt Yamaha

DTRA Vintage - Redcar Report

Aug 23, 2019

DTRA Vintage - Redcar Report

August meant Redcar, the most northerly track the DTRA visits. A lovely 300m speedway track with wide, long, banked turns and decent trackside facilities. We had an added incentive to make the long journey up country with a Friday evening show of 'sickle & surf film shorts put on by DTRA photographer and film maker Tom Bing and his pro surfer partner Sally, in a fine old Victorian Lifeguard museum on the coast at Tynemouth (see the blog post). On Saturday evening we were trea

DTRA Vintage - Amman Valley report

Jul 27, 2019

DTRA Vintage - Amman Valley report

Note: John is such a stereotypically modest Englishman he didn't want to write about his first ever win in the DTRA Vintage class, so he wrote using a nom de plume. This, of course, is ridiculous, so I edited his copy back from the third person. Congrats John, you rode like a demon. GI June's Vintage DTRA round became a non-championship points-scoring at the Greenfield TT because the scheduled Saturday was rained off and a key championship contender couldn't make the reschedu

DTRA Rnd 2 Sideburn Vintage report

May 23, 2019

DTRA Rnd 2 Sideburn Vintage report

The Peterborough round of the DTRA Championships is an event with a different atmosphere to any other round. Being part of the MCN Festival there are big crowds, lots of motorcycle industry involvement and the DTRA Flat track racing is the main live attraction. The Sideburn Vintage Class entry lined up 18 riders vying for a place in the 12 bike final. French Sideburn Ambassador Hubert Bastie #2 was back with his Husqvarna running reliably at last and was full of confidence af

Stansfield Triumph

Apr 26, 2019

Stansfield Triumph

A couple of years ago I decided it might be a good idea to build a bike specifically for flat track/Dirt Quake type events. I'd competed at four Dirt Quakes, three on my old Triumph chop, but I fancied something a bit more suitable/faster. As a small pensioner, a vintage two stroke should be ideal, nice and light and pretty affordable in comparison to old British stuff. A couple of Bultacos and a Honda Elsinore caught my eye but passed by. I only really fancied the Honda as I

DTRA Vintage 2019: Round 1

Apr 19, 2019

DTRA Vintage 2019: Round 1

The long awaited 2019 DTRA Flat track season kicked off in fine style in King's Lynn at the weekend. It's a great venue that always produces fine evening races under floodlights. This year was no exception, the setting sun making the whole event wonderfully atmospheric as the inters, pros and Hooligans battled heroically into the dark on Saturday evening. The Sideburn Vintage class ran on Sunday. It was cold, but the racing was hot. Lots of new old bikes and some familiar and

DTRA King's Lynn Vintage Metal. Pt.1

Apr 16, 2019

DTRA King's Lynn Vintage Metal. Pt.1

I wrote about my excitement for the new DTRA season last week, and didn't touch upon that added bonus of tons of new bikes turning up. We'll be posting snaps of them. First up is Dave Webb's Triumph T120. David has raced with the DTRA Vintage class for two or three seasons now and is quite a regular on the podium. There were 24 entries for the King's Lynn race. There are championships for two-a dn four-strokes, but the class runs in mixed heats, all machines combined into gri

Krazy Horse Flat Track Night: MEGAPOST

Apr 9, 2019

Krazy Horse Flat Track Night: MEGAPOST

Krazy Horse themed their first late Thursday night of 2019 as a flat track night. The late nights, the first Thursday of the month from spring to autumn, are big, everyone's welcome, bike nights. There's a huge barbecue, a band and Krazy Horse work with their neighbours to allow loads of parking for the crazy variety of vehicles that turn up. Mark brought his beautifully turned out Trackmaster Triumph. This used to belong to Guy Sutherland, and Rob will be debuting it in the

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