Sideburn contributor Ed Subias sent this great hooligan update. Last Saturday, 1st February, some of the Californian hooligan racers came together at a race that was more of a low key test and tune session than a competition. The hooligans were a support race during the AMA National Pairs Speedway Championship at Perris Raceway. Sounds a little strange at first but paring the speedway and hooligan clans made perfect sense to me. Both groups are full of interesting characters

This latest concept drawing sneaked out of Milwaukee HQ and Harley themselves were linking the EV to their XR750, parlaying the future to Milwaukee's glorious old racebike. If that's what it takes to get people interested. More importantly, after decades of hoping for a real street tracker, not the models they eventually released, like the XR1000 and XR1200, it's laden with irony that Harley might actually build one, but with an electric motor. I'm in no way against the idea,

We shot Jarod Vanderkooi's XG750R at Lima last year, just before JV20 knocked himself out and put himself out of the race. We also interviewed Terry Vance, of the legendary Vance & Hines, about the bike and the state of the official H_D Factory flat track team. Read about it in Sideburn 39. #xg750r #harleydavidson #aft2019 #edsubias #jarodvanderkooi #sideburn39 #vanceandhines

Vance and Hines chose and otherwise quiet Thursday in December to announce some huge news, the line-up of their 2020 team. And it's exciting. Jarod Vanderkooi is retained and joined by 2019 AFT Singles champ Dalton Gauthier and 2016 AMA Twins champ, Bryan Smith. Smith's long-time crew chief, Ricky Howerton joins Vance and Hines as crew chief. Howerton is quoted as saying, 'I think the Harley-Davidson Factory Team has all the ingredients in place to field bikes that can win ev