I was trying to track down Dan Stanley, a Washington state rider and national #60, then #10, between 1992 and 2009, and came across this photo. It's the late 1980s and Dan is looking sharp. Custom D's leathers, sponsored by Budweiser, white SuperVictory boots, white Simpson Bandit lid. He's sat on a TT spec Panther Rotax framer. I posted the photo on instagram, Dan saw it and replied. 'That Panther was one of the best handling bikes I've ever rode [sic]. The bike next to it [

Ed Subias, above, is a regular Sideburn contributor, he shot Jarod Vanderkooi's factory H-D XG750R and interviewed Terry Vance for Sideburn 39. He remembers the first ever Superhooligan race. Las Vegas. The night Hooligan racing jumped the shark, we just didn't know it yet. I failed to make it out of my heat race and into the main so decided to let loose. A few of us did in fact, upsetting the nearby pit entourage that was with Roger Lee Hayden who was participating in the il

The landscape of, let's call it, alternative motorcycling has changed so radically over the last few years that when a friend and Sideburn contributor, Ryan Quickfall creates a motorcycle zombie-themed beer can for an independent brewery, it doesn't cause much more than a 'Oh, that's cool'. If this had happened ten years ago, when Sideburn started, I'd have been freaking out that someone tied the strands of indie motorcycling, art, beer, zombies together. Now tie-ins with lef

UPDATE: I was trying to write this while I was half-asleep, having travelled back from America today. It was riddled with typos. Sorry. Hopefully I've got them all now. Guy Martin isn’t much of pub regular, but when he found out the local in the village he grew up in was closing, he acted decisively and bought it. The Marrowbone and Cleaver, in Kirmington, North Lincolnshire had gone through two or three managers recently and the brewery that owned it had called time on the i