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Showing posts with label Bimota. Show all posts

Monday, 28 October 2013

Knoen Blog

The Sideburn blog has been running since 2008 and is well over 4000 posts old. There were some good moto blogs before we started, but not tons. Then there were thousands, but recently the gadflies have flown over to facebook or instagram. We, through loyalty to and love of the blog format, have stuck with blogger, serving up at least one post every single day. So, we still love blogs and this one is a beauty, though it is very rarely updated. 

http://knoen.blogspot.co.uk - subtitled Time You Enjoy Wasting Is Not Time Wasted - is created by Martin P, a Swedish Sideburn reader living and working in Japan. He's employed as a designer for a major motorcycle company. He serves up event reports from classic and modern road racing and vintage scrambles. Go check it out.

And leave us a comment telling us, or reminding us, about really good blogs, please. G 
And I'm pretty sure Luigi is Martin P, the man behind the blog. Could it get any better?
Martin also designed this Bikenstein for Dirt Quake II. 

Friday, 12 June 2009

Gone but not forgotten


That garage is gone. So is the Bimota. I crashed it in the wet at Silverstone. I was flying, tucked in behind one of the instructors, overtaking mates who normally leave me for dead. The instructor didn't know I was there and he braked 30m earlier into the first corner, than he had on the previous four laps. I got on the brakes too hard and lost the front.
Still we've got an FT500 now. Who wouldn't swap a Bimota 1100 for that bad boy?
Photo: Matt Howell