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Bike Shed Unlocked

This time last year we were getting ready to open the doors at Tobacco Dock to 17,000 people, gathered to see over 250 curated custom motorcycles, alongside live music, a wide selection of great food, half a dozen bars, tattooing, curated retail brands, photography, film, live art and barbershop, with everyone enjoying in a festival atmosphere in the heart of London - all backed by the manufacturers. It was our tenth show, and our best yet. If it wasn't for the lockdown, we'd be welcoming you all again to another world-class event, but sadly that wasn't to be. However, we...

Sideburn at The One Moto Show

I’m croaking. Not dying (well I am, we all are, but let’s not get existential). I haven’t even done a full day of One Moto Show duty and my voice is going. It’s not the show’s fault. Well, not entirely. It’s Portland’s. I’ve been visiting the city, once or twice a year for the One Show or Dirt Quake USA, since 2013, and I both know my way around and know lots of people in the city and, even though, I am NOT a party person. I’m a morning person, yes, one of them, that sense of familiarity is a...

One is Not the Loneliest Number

For three hours I stared at the darkened highway just beyond the glow of the headlights, used one finger to hold the steering wheel straight, and stayed silent so as to not wake Shaun Guardado of Suicide Machine Co., curled into a ball in the fully reclined passenger seat. I listened to the audiobook version of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, Or the Evening Redness in the West for the fifth time, and as the sun climbed out from behind the Sierra Nevadas I was stung by words I know too well: “The way of the world is to bloom and...

DTRA 2019 Season Awards

Last weekend I attended the Dirt Track Riders Association awards presentation for the 2019 UK Flat Track National Championship. As Indian Motorcycle is the series sponsor the event was held at the new Krazy Horse Farm House facility in the cotswolds. Krazy Horse are one of the leading Indian dealers in the UK and have been supporting flat track racing in the UK for the last few seasons. It was great to see the new venue and hang out with racing pals, and celebrate the 2019 champions. I barely completed a race last season and with this new crop of...

Bike Shed Festival 2019

Ever since we did our first custom bike show in 2013, we've talked about doing an event where bikes are ridden and not just static - and not just for custom bike aficionados and fans. Events like DirtQuake, El Rollo, the Punks Peak Sprint Race at Wheels & Waves and The Malle Mile were an inspiration, but we felt something was missing. ... Not everyone has the skills, or the right bike, to slide around a dirt oval next to some gnarly pros, and some of the sprint racing was getting a bit too serious for many of us. Meanwhile,...

Suzuka 8 Hrs Auction

Please, please can someone well heeled do the right thing and bid on some of these and ride them at the Bike Shed Festival. During this weekend's Suzuka 8 Hour race BH Auction have some mighty tasty machines going under the hammer. This 2018 Team Kagayama GSX-R 1000 powered Katana is simply stunning. Well, lose the orange anodised bits perhaps. And surely this 1988 Works GSX-R 750 would be the ideal contender for the Retro Racer Cup, in the right hands of course. But I reckon my pick would be this 1982 Honda RS1000. 135PS and 165KG would make for...

Bike Shed London 2019 - 10th Edition

Boom. Our tenth Bike Shed London show. Just like that, another annual weekend event seemed to be over, and while our team of Bike Shed staff, crew, members and volunteers began the long de-rig process the afterglow has already started to set-in. Bike Shed London was the foundation of our fulltime space in Shoreditch, and ten shows later it still carries the same spirit; – a home for motorcycle culture, and a celebration of the creativity and ingenuity that blends design with engineering to create machines that move the body and the soul. … A mode of transport that has...

DTRA 2019 Season Launch

Last weekend we hosted one of our favourite annual events - the Dirt Track Riders Association flat track season launch party. A chance for the riders to get pumped for the forthcoming rounds and to catch up with mates and adversaries, as well as providing a well needed line in the sand to make sure their winter projects are ready to do battle. Sideburn brought their merch and mag pop-up store and women's training school Days in the Dirt launched their academy based at the UK's premiere flat track facility, Greenfield Dirt Track. Greenfield founder George Pickering filled the corner...