We buy books in to sell on every now and then. Some are motorcycle-related, others aren't. Sheer by Viva Van Story, clearly, isn't.
High quality, coffee table (if you haven't got kids), beautifully printed, erotica, hardback, 176 pages: £25 plus post from the Sideburn shop.
Over-18s only... G

I've been playing The Cramps regularly lately. My five-year-old likes them. When I used to buy records every week I'd keep the receipt and put it in the plastic sleeve. Nerdy, I know. I also used to put relevant gig tickets in with LPs. I noticed that  the current Mrs Inman and I went to see The Cramps play in Leeds 21 years ago this week (I think they were touring The Creature from The Black Leather Lagoon Stay Sick LP, a bit past their peak and in a venue that didn't suit them, but still glad I saw them). Tempus fugit... G
According to an online inflation calculator, £8 in 1991 is the equivalent of £14.32 now.

Category busting hairstyle from 1971. BP

LAZER TITS is blog of the week. BP

Jason Roche is a medically tidy welder and fabricator. His surgery Special '79 is in Worcester Massachusetts. This is his fork-leg shaving video.
There's only one TT race (that normally warrants a front brake) running in the UK at King's Lynn, even then not all short track UK regulars run it, so soap up! No one likes a bird with prickly legs. BP
UPDATE: The UK Short Track TT doesn't allow front brakes. G

That's Italian for boots.

The Stags: Incomparable.

Ambled to my local tool shop this morning, to pick up some regular wood screws and sanding discs, came back fully laden with second-hand quality bargains, including a large bench vice for my new shed, and this beauty - I don't even know what you call them but I used to have a crap one. Particularly love the time-served blue Hammerite finish. Well handy. BP

Not as universally handy as a Leatherman in combination with a Specialized mountain bike mini fold-out EMT Allen key set, in my 'don't hit the road without it' tool kit, but my King Dick, established in 1856 is my most prized piece. Just the weight of it is stimulating. There is virtually no slack in the jaws. I painted one side day-glo so as not to loose it fumbling in the dark at the roadside (no idea why both sides didn't get the treatment). You can pick them up for a couple of quid at car boot sales, this little fella is only a few inches long, but they make a big whoppas too. BP

Co Built Geoff knocked this hot shoe together for me. It's on my desk and I can't stop staring at it. I can't work. How do I break the news to my wife? BP

Fear not Sideburn magazine will not become some la-di-da fashion rag, but we would like to do some 'fashion' shoots. Aiming for slightly more practical outfits than shown here. Do you have a leather boot fetish? Is your cupboard full of old bike jackets? Do you have a thing for vintage T-shirts? We are looking for a stylist for photo shoots. You don't have to be motorcyclist. BP
Email me via the contact shown over on the lower righthand sidephoto: Ben Part; styling: Katelijn Verbruggen; make-up: Ed Tijsen; model: Tabara

Eyjafjallajokull an Icelandic volcano blows up and world jet travel is crippled over night. It sounds like a bad pulp fiction intro. The reality is I'm marooned in Amsterdam indefinitely. There are certainly worse places to kill time, but I've got a young family in tow and we've run out of nappies. And my son shits for England (anybody within a 50 yard radius can vouch for this). Schiphol, one of the busiest airports in the world is eerily tranquil. All the departure - arrival boards are blank. Plenty of time for window shopping. BPGrey suede lederhosen, green motocross T-shirt at Lab13.

We're flattered with propositions from around the world, for new stories '....that may be of interest to Sideburn?', as way back when we printed the first issue, we were seriously worried how soon the well of suitable and original material would dry up. Plus, it's no good just banging a magazine together with 4"-b'-2" and a few rusty nails, we decided from the beginning we would only include stories and photography of worth, and make a magazine we'd want on our own coffee table. So how to sort the wheat from the chaff? Sideburn is not Wikipedia.
Would a Wiki' researcher cross-dress as a pensioner in piss-stained nylons, just so they could go deep-cover and gain access to restricted MI5 files on a Lady speedway star from the 1920s? A Sideburn researcher would. - Well not me personally, but Mick Phillips would. And did. He has written the inside story on infamous Fay Taylour for SB#5. And we even had to go as far as New Zealand to get the photos.

Incase you are wondering, 3/4s of the next issue is now completed; we will trickle feed you teasers as we finish it off. BP

You wouldn't want to get you goulies on the wrong side of this steel log-splitter. Mick Phillips had another close shave.

Just something about these CCM through-frame 'poke it out the window' stubby silencers, that's ticking my box. When I first saw Rusty 'Preisendorfer' Hodgsons Suzuki engined F-35, I thought Hmm that's novel, but after a bit of homework I found out they've employed this trick since their early days BSA-engined scramblers in the 70s. BP

UPDATE: Dynomax UK have told us 'The can is a Remus Powercone. Dynomax developed it for CCM on their FT’s. CCM then placed an order with Remus, but all those cans are sold. Unless they place another order for 20 min. (I think) we can’t get them. So we’re abit stuffed really.'

I bet Co-Built could make you a replica. GI

Fresh satin black powder coat by CJ Powder Coating, Grimsby for the Sideburn project FT. Can anyone offer a virgin, a goat, and some candles to the cause? Then the ceremony can begin. BP

Skidding around the internet for a while already, somehow as is often the case with such chinese whispers, it's origins were not so readily apparent. Used by Chanel in Paris as a dumb clothes horse it seems to have picked some forum slander on the way. I've only now discovered that this svelte creature is the love child of threesome Frank Charriaut and Vincent Prat; our French chums behind the South Siders mc blog, and Daniel Delfour (of Norton Ala'verda fame). Tritons originally concocted in the 60s as a back-street cross-breed, that was a marked improvement over any single marque factory bike aimed at caff racing, the consequent re-runs tend to be a very formulated same-old same-old check-list. The CP Project One is a refreshing re-think, more French Praline than Cadbury's Creme Egg. Savour it by nibbling, don't scoff it. BP'What can a featherbed, a Tyrannosaurus Rex & Batman have in common? Since visiting in California the Legend of the Motorcycle International Concours d’Elegance in June 2008, French designers Frank Charriaut and Vincent Prat had a dream to build their own Motorcycle. There, they met with the Crème of Motorcycling experts & enthusiasts.
As English Motorcycles fans, Charriaut & Prat made the choice of a featherbed frame and a Triumph 750 engine. Of course when you start like this, the only point you can reach is to build a Triton. But they did not want to make another Café racer or name-it Triton; they wanted to make something more personal which could match their cultural backgrounds. That led them to forget all about the British bikes standards and follow their own destiny.
Charriaut & Prat started sketching and quickly found out what should be the final aspect of their bike. A mix of Batman’s motorcycle with a T.Rex fastback and a overwhelming feeling of Cat Woman’s dreamful body. Inspiration came directly from comic book culture.
From designing to manufacturing can be a hazardous path. The duo was lucky enough to be joined on their project by maker Daniel Delfour who knew how to read into their cads and make their dream come true. Inch by inch, meeting after meeting, working together as a trio, made the project become a reality: the bike was born. As a mix of classics, custom, vintage and dirt track bikes. Some “purists” could say that is a sacrilege. But this project is about Great Fun. The length of the fork tubes! A front wheel without a brake! Big deal: these were just options for more fun!
Frank Charriaut and Vincent Prat want to thank Daniel Delfour for his achievement, Momo from Momo Bikes Service, for the greatest paint job and the exhaust pipes. Finally, the duo wants to send their very special and great thanks to Benoit Gerry [the 3rd member of the South Siders] from Studio Ze for his outstanding pictures and longtime support.'The Southsiders will shortly be selling the bike, after a new paint job to cover over the gash Chanel livery (as shown in most web snaps).

Never thought of desert wellies (that I used to wear when I was 6 years old) as being performance footwear. BP

So GI and BP are pretty much agreed on the major and minor styling points of our FT, but what rubber to wear? Olde worlde Dunlop K70; el cheapo Cheng Shin C186; fashionable Firestone Blackwall; trad Dunlop K180; or modern Maxxis DTR1?

By the time all the bikes were loaded and the PA for the Chris Carr do wound up, it was after midnight. Sign-on for his flat track school at the Rye oval in the morning was at 08:30, and two hours drive south. So we decided to make the miles that night and rough it in the paddock. However with Jason on-board, he suggested maybe we weren't such hardmen and how about a hotel? Hanbury Manour looks like kind of place Hugh Hefner would stay at when golfing in Hertfordshire. The maid had kindly left out some masks for us. Now we only had to decide who got which colour. BP

Now SB#4 is at the printers, I decided to take a long overdue day off with the Mrs. Amble into town, have a frothy coffee, do some shopping, hell maybe even take in an art gallery. But something much more exciting happened. We came across this Ariel 500 single - guaranteed 100 mph performance in 1932 (or so the factory claimed). A bit too shiny for my taste, but the detailing is amazing. I just had to go down on it. "Go on take my photo!" I demanded. Then the owner came out and caught me, just as I was about to squirt it with Brasso. BP