Next month's One Motorcycle Show in Portland, Oregon is hosting the country's first electric 'national' flat track race. We featured electric flat track back in Sideburn 29 when our test animal Travis Newbold raced an Alta flat tracker at the One Pro races at Salem in February 2017. For the first time in its 11-year history, the show and races will be in the same venue, the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Portland. Get tickets for the One Moto Show. We were also at the Alta's d

Update from Todd Marella on the Salem indoor winter series over in Salem. Saturday at Salem was a pretty dreamy night for flat track, whether one was racing or spectating, or both, the sparsely attended night had no shortage of action. Skyler Goar put on a clinic in the vintage open class. He is so pure, watching him lulls you into a state of suspended disbelief. Standing just on the other side of the Jersey barrier from where back straight becomes turn three, Todd Hill (Mich

An update from Todd Marella on the 2019/2020 amateur winter race scene in Salem, Oregon. It’s December 26 and the rush from Christmas is dissipating (damn it, I love Christmas), and it occurred to me that I still hadn’t summed up last week’s activities in the 250 Vintage class at Salem Speedway. The class feels a bit skeleton like, to be sure, as the defending champ, Chris DeSanty, has been absent since the first race getting his Panther outfitted with a two-stroke motor, rep

Chris DeSanty (below) began the 2019/2020 Salem indoor series as he ended last year, as the leader in the points standing in the Vintage 250 class. He did so with little trouble within the field, winning both heat and main events, going away. The rest of the group in the class couldn’t be happier for him. The consensus is that he looks tough to beat. We’ll see… Skyler Goar rode as flawlessly as anyone I’ve ever seen, easily defending the #1 plate he earned last season in the