Win a Mutt

One of stockists, Monday Mo Co (in the West Midlands No-Go area) has a great offer on at the moment. Spend £100 or more with them and you'll get entered into a competition to win one of the neat Mutt 125s. Benny Boneshaker developed this little Chinese made entry level bike. I've ridden on around the green lanes on trials tyres and it's a fun little thing.

They stock Deus, Red Wing, Pike Brothers... It won't be hard to spend £100 if you've got it. It works for online purchases.

Closing date is the end of June... Got to Monday Mo Co. Good luck! G

No-Go Area

In December Sideburn went to the new Monday Mo Co shop in Birmingham for a low-key shindig and mag launch. Little did we know we were braving a Al Qaeda hot spot, a no-go area for non-Muslims and were at risk from a beat down from a 'police' force enforcing sharia law. If only we'd seen this well-informed and expertly researched Fox News report before (below).

We weren't the only people to dodge the fundamentalist snipers' tracer fire and flag-burning mobs. Luke came down to check out the scene and wrote a little report for We Are Union. These photos are from there.

We steer clear of politics on this blog, but in all seriousness, watch the clip below and realise it's not a joke.
It's obvious all mainstream news is some kind of propaganda, but can you believe the shit fed by 'serious' news channels.

Birmingham is great! Long live Monday Mo Co, too. G

Monday Mo Co

Thanks to everybody who braved Baltic temperatures and came down to the Monday Mo Co SB#19 launch party on Saturday. It's an impressive set-up. Theres a great vibe going on in Digbeth, The Custard Factory was buzzing. They will of course be stocking Sideburn from now on, so if you are local go check em oot. BP

Sideburn 19 Launch TOMORROW

Don't forget, we're all over at Monday Mo Co in Birmingham tomorrow afternoon.

We put out the wrong postcode before, it's B9 4AA.

We will also have, hot off the press, the overdue blueprint of Metro Don's Bultaco Astro featured in Sideburn #14, meticulously drawn by Mick Ofield.
These will be available from our webshop next week.

Sideburn 19: Launch

UPDATE: NOW WITH CORRECT POSTCODE - B9 4AA

Don't forget NEXT SATURDAY.

WHAT: Sideburn 19 launch + official shop opening + free motorbike film festival until 11pm.
WHEN: 1-6pm, Saturday 6 December
WHERE: Monday Mo Co, Birmingham, B9 4AA, UK

Plus prizes for best bike and furthest travelled.

That means there's a new issue of SIDEBURN due any day!

Order yours from sideburn.bigcartel.com

Sideburn 19 Launch Party

WHERE: Monday Mo Co, a new shop in Birmingham,  B9 4AA

This brand new shop is co-owned by a few people including Benny Boneshaker and people from the creative agency, I Love Dust. It sells Biltwell, Deus Ex Machina, Sideburn magazine and a bunch of other stuff including their own T-shirts.

WHEN: 1 - 6pm, Saturday 6 December. With motorcycle films being shown in the Mockingbird Theatre and Bar next door till 11pm.

WHAT: We don't do a release party for every issue, just when the opportunities arise and this one is perfect.
We wanted to do something with the Monday Mo Co in Birmingham and they had just announced Black Top, a film festival of bike movies.
Visit the new shop, pick up some stuff from Monday Mo Co or the Sideburn stall, check out a film, some music, some drinks...

Prizes for best bike and furthest travelled.

Hope to see you there.

Poster artwork: Jonathan Niclaus at I love Dust 

Anglo-American

I inherited some tools over the summer, all sorts, but these two go well together, a Transatlantic brutal twosome, damaging in the wrong hands. Pre-Irwin Vise Grip, made by Petersen in DeWitt, Nebraska (patented in 1924, the British Mole version didn't appear until more than 30 years later). King Dick adjustable made in Birmingham, England. King Dick (settle down at the back) started off as The Abingdon Works Co. in the mid-19th century and over the years built various single and V-twin motorcycles and engines under the Abingdon and King Dick names until the early 1930s. MP