American Flat Track hosted its end of season awards night in New York last night and the big news announcement was that Bryan Smith will be back on a Kawasaki for the 2019 season. The 2016 champion sewed up his one and only championship win on the Howerton Motorsports Kawasaki at the final race of the old AMA Pro Racing era, before it was rebranded as AFT. He narrowly beat Jared Mees (who, at the time, was racing a Harley XR750) at the Santa Rosa Mile after the pair went into

The story of Bryan Smith's second season as an important part of the Indian Wrecking Crew is an interesting one. At this point last year, the Indian team's first full season, it was a toss up between Smith and Mees who was going to be the champion. This season Mees has 7 wins, one second and one disqualification from nine rounds. Smith has none and is sitting in sixth in the title race, behind his team-mate Baker (sitting in third) and three Indian-mounted privateers - Wiles,

It took until round 4 of the AFT Twins season for Indian to score their first 1-2-3 sweep of the year. I know, total disaster, heads are going to roll for this... Last season they did it by round two, and there were only three Indian FTR750s in that whole race. At Calistoga, last weekend, nine entered (there would have been ten, but Bryan Smith is injured, see previous post). It was an incredibly impressive night for Indian's racing bike. Here's why... Indian filled the top f

I had seen this recent Texas Half-Mile crash on Instagram, but couldn't find a version I could post on the blog until I looked again today. It's worth posting for those who limit their social media intake to just the Sideburn blog. The surface at the Forth Worth track sounded like it was causing problems for some riders. Brad Baker crashed out in the heats, but was discharged from hospital later the same weekend, Sandriana Shipman had a ugly crash in the Singles class and nee