Sideburn is a big fan of Royal Enfield's innovative Build.Train.Race programme, covering it since it was announced in 2019. The series is open for US-based women to apply to Royal Enfield to join their dirt track race series (now expanded to dirt and road race). If they are chosen, the rider is given an Interceptor 650 Twin to modify, and a place to race in a season of events as a support race for American Flat Track. The bikes are transported from race to race, the riders tr

Guest post from Build. Train. Race rider, Nean Kiskela. You can read her first blog post here So I finished my Royal Enfield INT650 flat track bike build. Not without running into some issues, but ain’t that how custom builds go? Time and money was my biggest constraint on this project. Without the advice and parts coming from my sponsors at Royal Enfield, S&S, RaceTech/Z Moto Suspension, Johnson Engineering, and Maxima, among a few others, I don’t know how I could have even

Guest post from Dee Hardwick Cheeky Bid... That’s usually the start of the conversation when I'm dragging my other-half to pick up some random bike/frame/engine from some random bloke in a random part of the country. It's currrently vintage BSA bits. I love bikes, always have done since I was kid growing up on a farm in Lincolnshire. I used to leave AutoTrader (remember it? 45p from corner shop) open with rings around field bikes that my parents chose to ignore. They hated bi

We've been following Royal Enfield North America's Build. Train. Race programme since it launched in late-2019. The idea is a group of women are given an Interceptor 650 twin (referred to as the INT 650 in the USA) to modify for flat track racing. They build it, they train to race, then they compete. The programme has doubled in size for its second year, with eight riders: six new joined by the returning champ Jillian Deschenes and Lana MacNaughton. Because of Covid, last ye