Kati Dalek is a superb photographer from Germany, and also one of the countless lovely people involved in this scene. She was bitten by the flat track bug after photographing races across Europe and ended up buying this vintage Honda racer after photographing it. We saw this photo of it hibernating before the European race season starts, and asked if we could post it. Kati told us: 'Ocho (meaning 8) is a 1979 Honda XL500S with a vintage plastic Fantic trial tank, a homemade s

German photography team Marc Hanchak and Christine Gabler shot a pair fo twin-shock short trackers, built by Hombrese Bikes, for Sideburn 45. Marc also sent these scans of medium format, colour negative film. I'm sure there's an app to put these borders on photos, but these are the real thing. Well, a digital scan of the real thing. Read about these Hombrese Honda XL500 and Yamaha SR500 racers in Sideburn 45. #Hombrese #Sideburn46 #HondaXL500 #YamahaSR500 #photography

It was a last-minute decision for Charlie Davidson to take a ten-hour round trip to photograph her first dirt track event, and she chose a good one, the recent DTRA round at Greenfield. See Charlie's evocative images, and read how she ended up shooting at Greenfield, in the STORIES section of our website. #GreenfieldDirtTrack #DTRA #photography

Sideburn 44 is a Photography Special, and we asked out friend Ed Subias to give a few tips on how everyone can take better shot ps of bikes, no matter if you're using a smartphone, SLR or compact. Illustrations by Sideburn's new art ed, Andy Garside. BUY SIDEBURN 44 #Sideburn44 #photography #EdSubias