Jimmy's 50 Quid Jawa

From James in Devon, UK.

A few photos of the latest project for the blog maybe. 
Bought it standard off a guy at work for £50, hacked it up one evening and unseized it with a block of wood and a hammer and this is the result! 
It's slow as shit at the minute, needs a rebore and pistons I think, my mate on the Bullet had to push me along at anything over 45! 
Worked well on the beach though...
Cheers 
James

Deus Bike Build-Off

Plenty of fruit and nut bikes were produced for the Deus build-off. Here is 'the peoples choice' top 20.
This (below) is Shannon Snows 8th placed XT200 mongrel.

My bike started life as an early 80's Yamaha mono shock dirt bike frame that I found on Craigslist for free, it also came with an unknown bultaco gas tank. The engine is a 82 Yamaha XT200 for $300. I rode the bike up and down the street twice, then promptly pulled the motor. I had to hack, weld and shoehorn the motor into the 2 stroke frame. I modified the rear swing arm and frame to accept an R6 shock that I paid $20 for. I cut about a foot off the front forks and springs. Not having a lathe to re-thread the tube, I drilled and tapped the caps for pipe plugs and then welded the caps to the fork tubes. I added mountain bike shocks as helper springs to stiffen the front end, which gave my bike it's iconic face. The light is a Piaa fog light . The handle bars are mini apes flipped. The seat foam came from a Kawasaki 440ltd. My mother in law did the appolstry. I made the tail from a stainless steel bowl from Walmart. The ignition module and regulator are housed inside. The paint is spray paint, not quite as nice as I would have liked but just ran out if time! I did it all in my garage for under $600. Hauled it 1000 miles in my 93 ranger and had a blast through the whole process!! Thanks Deus for putting in such a great event!!

But Lincoln Black's - 19th placed Suzuki GS125 (above) is my flavor fave. BP

A little 'Dirt Quake Style' from Poland

From Slawomir in Warsaw. Fantastyczny!

Hi guys
I'm still working on my SR500 so I need something to ride around the city, to work etc so I buy small Suzuki GN250, but i want to make it little crazy, little "Dirt Quake style" so i put enduro tires and handlebar, paint it properly and here it is :D, enjoy

See more Polish shenanigans at Slawomir's blog, Pin-Up Motorcycles

Peter's Budget XT500

From Peter Jansen in the Netherlands

I have built a street flat tracker from a crashed XT500 using used parts to keep it low budget. Yamaha cross swing arm, Harley seat, FZ600 front fork, 17inch wheels from a Italian bike, homemade header with used Megaton exhaust, headlight from a bicycle, rear light Norton, shocks from an old Honda, the painting was the most expensive thing about 350 euro's. 
Pictures (copyright) are made by Eric Scholten. 
Thanks, Greetings Peter Jansen Bemmel Holland (a 50 year old bloke from Holland)

Maximilian Funk

I saw these bikes on Instagram (search @sideburnmag if you want to follow us) and got in touch with Maximilian Funk (really)  in Berlin. This is what he said...

Here are some infos on my bikes as requested. The grey one is a 87 Honda XBR500 (cleaned the frame, CB200 fuel tank, 70s hercules 125 headlamp, custom seat, exhaust manifold is from a xr 400 dirtbike, the muffler is a shortened Kawa Z1000 part and so on. 
The blue one is a Yamaha TW125. 
The goal was to build a little custom bike for the city with a budget of 2000 Euro maximum. I've put a XS400 fuel tank on, headlamp is an original part from the 70s, Supertrapp muffler, rear fender is built out of an old skateboard, custom seat. 
These bikes are my first builds as I wrote on Instagram. Do you need some more technical informations? I've put you a little selection of pics together. 
Keep up the good work! 
Best from Berlin, Max

Photos by: Maximilian Funk and Lisa Wassmann

Poland

From Michal of Photoduda in Poland...

In the last warm weeks of 2012 I sat in my garage and annoyed the neighbors with an angle grinder. Here's what came out of it. There's still a lot to do, and I got some ideas, definitely gonna make a new seat and maybe swap a tank for an old WSK one. But I think it's ready to show it to the world. 
Plus I wanted to ask you a favor to call out to any Polish viewers of your blog that like to go fast and turn left, so we could get in touch and try to organize some rides or events this coming year. 
Thanks in advance! Happy New Year, 
Michal
info@fotoduda.com

Alex's XS650 Street Tracker

From Alex in the UK

Hey Sideburn
Just wanted to say love the mag, so cool it inspired to street track my XS650. It's a 1980 heritage special, spent a couple of G's on it but worth every penny I love it and everybody stops to ask about it! Gonna put some actual flat track bars on it but I already had these so saved a few £'s, I learnt how to weld and built it in my grandads garage with a few hand tools and absolutely no mechanical experience whatsoever! 
Anyway hope you like the pics, keep up the good work on the mag 
Cheers Alex

Petrol Food Beer

Brand new short about our friend Austin Vince and his brother Gerald. G

DucRat

From our friend Marcus Moto in Sweden...

Here is my daily ride of 2012, DucRat. Scratched and leftover bits from the F1 Tracker build (see below) added to my basic yellow 748 I bought off a friend last year. It is a UK bike from the start. 

It could use a proper paint on the plastics and a proper carbon fibre repair instead of the patching up with leftover carbon bits of the workshop floor. But it is freedom to put something like this together once in a while! :-) 
 Cheers, Marcus

What could possibly go wrong?

I started racing about the same time as big Stu, but he's had a few breaks. He's ready for another comeback.

Hi Gary
Thanks for issue #10 and the stickers . High lights for me are the articles by Dan Walsh and Jason , with the others close behind.

I've enclosed a before (below) and after of the bike I'll be riding this year. It's an Ebay special, ex-field bike that had been used and abused . Honda spent a few bob developing a bike to race thousands of miles across deserts , so I reckoned it'd be ideal for 8 laps of a speedway track. Not at all overweight , or too big with suspension that'd cope with jumps at top speed .I thought it showed potential for £720, and deserved a better life.
Co-Built waved their magic wand at it over the winter.
Can't make the practice at Rye House , so after owning it for 6 months the first time I'll ride it will be at Leicester next week. Shake-downs are for pussies, I say. What could possibly go wrong?
Cheers , and see you next week
Stu

We like cheap bikes

And one is being built over at the Rusty Nail Racing blog. Looks perfect for Dirt Quake's street bike class. G

Cagiva Dazzler

Our old friend Simon in North Wales has been building bikes for years, but Sideburn has inspired him to build his first street tracker. It was never going to be normal. It's a Cagiva Gran Canyon (Ducati engine). He made his own petrol tank and did his own 'dazzle' camouflage this morning.

He says 'Mission a) completed, out and back without breakdown, onwards and upwards'

Here it is before. The dazzle scheme might make an appearance on my Triumph Cockroach. G

Deathbox Update

From Thomas in Wisconsin

About a year ago you put up a picture of my ratty yamaha (89 FZR600) in all black. Made a little more progress this year. This was/is originally inspired by your stories of the Mablethorpe sand races.
The tyres (tires in the US :)) are Pirelli Scorpions. They have held up really well. Probably not sticky enough for track day, but great 50/50 rubber none the less.
Our blog is Killin It
Thanks again and take care!
Thomas

Mablethorpe Mega-Post

We had a family day out at the beach a week ago. The UK sand race scene is based at Mablethorpe on the Lincolnshire coast. The town, a tacky little pit that stinks of blocked arteries and despair, has next to eff-all going for it, except for the racing. But that's still more than a few places on that coast. Anyway...

Big Jim runs a Triumph 900 triple in an old Armstrong/Harley ex-Army frame (above). There are no noise regs on the beach.

This used to be the all-conquering Neil Tuxworth's bike. Now Les, who does our powder coating, races it.

Carl from CFM was racing his remodelled TDR250. He had a good day getting 2nds, 3rds and 4ths.

I'm not even sure you could get away with this outfit on Miami Beach, never mind Mablethorpe.
The track. It was actually a lot brighter than this. The last weekend of October and there was a fella on the beach in shorts and sandals and a T-shirt. And he didn't even look mental.
Short track hot shots Ben Baker (and Ben Wells) were out on the beach and racing like demons in the 450MX class.
CB500 racing in the road bike class (I think).
Big Kwak.
Another big Kwak.
Grasstrackers, the fastest things on the beach.
Benly racer. Rice puddings could rest easy.
Love the DIY number font.Is this why the season is so late in the year?
Tiki lid.
Specialist ambulance required. There were a lot of crashes at this meeting.
Pre-historic PB sticker.
It didn't take Columbo to work out this fella towed his race bike behind this...
Rover SD1 (with later model grille), not P6 as I first wrote. Colour coordinated.
Spares.

The next race is on Sunday. G