I left home at 4.30 yesterday morning to drive the 110 miles to the lair of artist Maxwell Paternoster. The early start was to miss the horrific London traffic (I did) and give Maxwell the best chance to paint three 6x4ft panels that we're going to use for backdrops for our show booths, starting with Motorcycle Social in Leeds next weekend. I left Maxwell for most of the day, cycling over to Brian 'Bonafide' McGinn's new workshop/office in Clapton (which he has desk space goi

Alastair K sent us this nice email... What a delight to get the back numbers of Sideburn I ordered - it has reminded me of the superb quality of the magazine. The graphic design, photography and art are all a marvel, and so perfectly judged. And the content – fascinating and inspiring – is a London Review of Books for biking. While I admire flat track, it’s not my primary interest, so I particularly value the peripheral stuff. For example, I loved the pieces about Lorenzo Er

These two are our old friends Geoff Co-Built and Wilky at our recent winter party/camp-out. Geoff arrived on a Honda 450 enduro (wearing Vans hi-tops!?) and Wilky decided the perfect vehicle for such a trip was his 70-year-old, survivor Harley flathead chop. I don't think the old 45 had run since it featured in the video for the very first Dirt Quake promo video back in 2012 (below). And it didn't run very well that day. Wilky worked out that he was adjusting the Linkert carb

Last weekend's SB x Hebtroco Winter Party and camp-out was nearly scuppered by, er... winter. Attendees dropped out left right and centre, some turning back as the weather and conditions got just too bad, but a hardcore few promised to come, meaning we had to go ahead with it. The rules were, two wheels only. No vans or cars. Ed from Hebtroco wrote the report, Tom Bing took the photos (though the ones in this blog post are mainly mine). Read a Winter's Tale. Hebtroco are a gr