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

We featured Paul Hartman's Racewear and his supercool Triumph Bonneville hooligan racer in Sideburn 38 and saw he had a new firebreathing bike so asked for the story on it. This is what he told us... Kind of a crazy deal, and sometimes I still don't believe it. I won this bike in a raffle that Davis Fisher did to raise some money.  Last summer Davis announced on his Instagram that he was going to sell raffle tickets for his Kawasaki 700 Twin AFT racer. Tickets were $50 and h

MY FAVOURITE THINGS Framers on short tracks And Brindley on fire Smell of the hot dogs and fat, sticky tyres Scottie Toepfer and his photos of kings These are a few of my favourite things Black, yellow race shirt by Sideburn magazine Kolkman and Gauthier And B-Rob’s trophy queen A Honda RS that has worn piston rings These are a few of my favourite things Classic Trackmasters, thick oil in their frames Local track heroes beating the big names Ohlins and Race Tech and Penske re

The 2016 champion was missing from the So Cal Half-Mile on Saturday, the second race he, or his team, have decided to sit out this season. Giving the Super TT a swerve was somewhat understandable if they were struggling, and they seem to be. Bryan Smith's weakest discipline are TTs, but missing this half-mile was harder to fathom. Smith is well known to be a mile specialist, but in his title-winning season he scored a first, second and fourth at half-mile tracks. He did fail