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Tuesday, 8 September 2015

Sideburn 22: Out now

COVER STAR: Speed Merchant Harley-Davidson Street 750

BIKES: BMW R90/6, BSA B33 DTRA racer; Wood Rotax; Mule Triumph Bonneville; Dirt Quake USA misfits; Lloyd Brothers Ducati 'Scrambler' GNC racer; Redmax Harley XR1000 street tracker; Ronin Pikes Peak Special

HOW TO: Crash and walk away (with David Aldana)

PEOPLE: Kenny Coolbeth; Emroca; Troy Bayliss; Travis Newbold

PLACES: Costa Mesa, Dunkeswell, Moab, Rancho Deluxe

PAGES: 100

Buy a single issue for £6 plus post from Sideburn 22

Or eight issue subscription with a free exclusive Bultaco Astro blueprint shirt

Or the regular, old 3-issue Sideburn sub

Massive thanks to everyone who chooses to spend any of their hard-earned money with Sideburn. G

The art portfolio of Emroca

DIY bike olympics at Rancho Deluxe from 1980

Icon BMW R90/6 on a mission

Redmax XR1000 street tracker

Thursday, 29 January 2015

Wonderland

From Dan Bouchard down a rabbit hole...

When Alice turned around and cast her eyes on a couple of bad ass street trackers. She rode in to a wonderland beyond imagination.

Saturday, 17 December 2011

Red Max Streetbikes for sale

From our friends at Red Max Speed Shop

Storz XR1000 Harley £8750
And a XS400 Streetscrambler £2550

Wednesday, 3 August 2011

Ed's XR

Woah, this is something else (we agree with Ed's daughter though...) G

Hey Gary-
Here you go...pics of the XR that I am building. I think it's been four years. Thankful that I have something else to ride!

Engine is one of the NOS XR1000's that still surface every once in a while. It's got Phil Darcy heads, Branch manifolds, Axtell .500 lift cams, Cosworth pistons, and cylinders that are made from two sets of XR750 ones sawed up, stacked & sleeved for the extra stroke.

Frame is an NOS Terry Knight job with big Ceriani forks, and Sandy Kosman's wheels and adjustable triple clamps. Fuel tank is a one-off sort of Sportser/XR marriage that Fred at Race-tec built to my specs. Oil tank is the bane of my existence right
now, but I think I will get through it.

What else? Daughter recently came home from college and her comments about the taillight have me feeling kinda self-conscious. Street tires for inspection purposes, cool ISR levers, Oberon mirror, Alloy Art headlight. Exhaust is held on with string, but as soon as I get some more bends from Burn's Stainless, I will cut it apart and make adjustments for my tall cylinders.

Can't wait to see Sideburn #8
Best, Ed

Monday, 26 April 2010

1st Annual XR Meeting

More Amman Valley news. Be great to see a bunch of XR street bikes there. G

Friday, 1 January 2010

Michele and Giovanni's Christmas adventure

What was I saying about loving people who prove you don't need the 'perfect' bike for every occasion. This is Michele Lupi and Giovanni Bussei out on their bikes just before Christmas. Michele, editor of GQ Italy, is the one with some common sense. Giovanni is the one with the horse chestnut for a brain and Harley XR1000 keys in his frozen hand.

Read about when Michele and Giovanni went riding in the snow with Valentino Rossi in Sideburn 4. Written by Rossi himself. G

Monday, 2 November 2009

Dutch Brothers' V-twins

Those boys don't mess about. See these bike racing in Italy next weekend. GI

Sunday, 2 August 2009

Jan-Willem Jansen

Number 1 Dutch Brother says...

'Practice last thursday in Mühldorf was fun!'

Thursday, 2 April 2009

Bussei off-road master class

Michele, the editor of GQ Italy, sent these in. He went trail riding with Giovanni Bussei a couple of weeks ago. Michele was on his Yamaha 450. Nice bit of GoreTex, Cordura, all that. Giovanni was on an XR1000 in a wooly jumper, leather trousers, pisspot lid and goggles. Look how far he made it up the hill on that thing! And check out the number plate and lights. This is Giovanni's road bike. I met him in Torino when I was working out there and he turned up on this with a huge wicker top box basket on the back. Legend.
If you don't know who Giovanni is, he's the just about the finest character in world racing. Not short of a bob or two, he spurns hotels or fancy motorhomes, preferring to sleep in his car and shower with the same hosepipe the team wash his bikes down with. He's raced in WSB, AMA, BSB and now FIM Supermoto. And he wants to race flat track. GI

Grazie Michele!

Sunday, 22 March 2009

Marco the Magnificient

From Jan-Willem of the Dutch Brothers. Thanks J-W
Marco Belli on the Dutch Bros XR1000 at the training in Giavera del Montello.

This bike is featured in Sideburn 1.

Sunday, 25 January 2009

84 reasons to buy Sideburn 2

Kenny Roberts, Champion TZ750, the 1975 Indy Mile, SR Labo, Roberts BMX, Ben Miller, Jason's XR1000, Sundance carbs and Supertrapp exhausts, Fly TIpping, Douglas speedway bikes, Dan Mahoney, Amy Pruczinksi, Bultaco Astro, Houston Astrodome, Bubba Rush, John Hateley, Jay Springsteen, Ray Ninness, Lincoln indoors, Peter Boast, Mat Oxley, Wrench Monkees SR500, 1970s Speedway hair, Flakes SR500 from Japan, cross-continental Sportster odyssey, vicious sunburn, exhaust bodges, Mick Phillips, armadillo gloves, Auto Race, purple glitter jackets, Suzuki AR600 grasshopper bikes, Max Schaaf's chopper, Captain Highside's Skooter Farm KTM Transalp mutant, Ben Part, Rachel, Trophy queens, Gary Inman, Gary Nixon, Nixon's 650 Triumph...
Buy it here.

Thursday, 2 October 2008

Sideburn 2 Teaser

Spoke to the printers today and they've promised to deliver a week on Monday.
So if you want one in the first monster post-out we're taking orders now.
Here's some of what's in it. Go to www.sideburnmagazine.com then click Shop. Make sure you say ISSUE 2, because we're still getting orders for 1.

Heavy Metal
Is the XR the ultimate tracker?
Is this the ultimate XR?
& its road legal(ish) so you can use it for shopping.

Smokin'
Thats not a pet sausage on Art's leg, its a meat hook to keep him on stop his Douglas and stop it careering off over the boards and killing innocent bystanders.
Sideburn's private collection of cigarette cards depicting men who were men that smoked.