Sideburn tester and poet, Travis Newbold has finished a new project and supplied this blog post that was written in chunks over a year and posted on his own 747Rider blog. I was just starting to settle in to my new shop, filling up wall space with posters, arranging my motorcycle feng shui, of course feeding my constant fetish for hoarding junk. Now that I have my own yard the first thing I did was go drag my Pop's old 1956 Willys jeep out of the field and start to finish wha

The UK flat track scene has attracted interesting people from a broad range of backgrounds and occupations for a long time. There are the tradesmen you'd perhaps expect of a grassroots, grubby bike sport, but the numbers are bolstered by a fashion designer, pilots (numerous), artists, tattooists, set designers, a doctor, photographers (numerous) and the owner/founder of an internationally renowned design consultancy. The latter is Adam Brinkworth - who races in both vintage

Two nights in Los Angeles, one day riding the new Indian FTR 1200 S, and a free day to kill before flying home. My old mate Kirk was on night shifts so he could pick me up and the idea was to visit Nico, Ornamental Conifer, at his base within Race Service HQ. We were a bit late, so we didn't have as long as we hoped but it was still great to see the emigrant. Race Service is a motorsports media agency and 'content creator' that works with brands to generate social media adver

Despite living in a Formula 1-mad country I've never watched an F1 race all the way through. I've watched the first few laps now and then, perhaps five times in 40 years. Compare that to GP or WSB races I've watched (hundreds) or soccer matches (thousands). Why? There's no overtaking. Races are won or lost on 'fuel strategy'. Ugh... I'd rather listen to cricket on the radio that watch F1 in full Technicolor. Or so I thought. I was having my haircut at the local barbers (£10,