I was interviewing AFT privateer Shawn Baer a couple of days ago and he mentioned the Mega Mile race. We ran some photos from it in the magazine years ago and I couldn't remember why the race hadn't gone back there. I did remember it was a 1.25-mile oval out east, but had forgotten it was called Colonial Downs and was in Virginia. A search threw up this pretty incredible race footage from 2014. There are lots of familiar names in the race, being only five years ago, but lots

American Flat Track champ Briar Bauman proposed to all-time number 1 singles racer Shayna Texter yesterday and it seems the answer was yes. Congratulations to the pair of them. Photo: @briarbauman14 #briarbauman #shaynatexter

We worked with Glasgow-based clothing company Red Torpedo to make a special edition cover of Sideburn 38. Red Torpedo sponsor a bunch of real road racers and now the two of the most successful flat track racers in the sport - Shayna Texter and Jared Mees. It's Mees that's on the cover, a shot from Lima 2019 by Ed Subias. Sideburn flew out to Lima, a race that Jared and Nichole Mees promote and run, to follow the two Red Torpedo riders. You can read the story in Sideburn 38. R

The digital edition of Sideburn 38 is now online to purchase for £2.50. You get to keep it until our future robot overlords turn off the human internet in favour of their own machine-only web system. We always show a few free pages to try snag the window shoppers, but for issue 39 we have uncovered the whole Lima Half-Mile story, that we made in conjunction with clothing brand, Red Torpedo, We flew to Ohio to follow their sponsored riders Jared Mees and Shanya Texter at the i