Love letter

Jason forwarded this letter to us. It's from his friend Chris in the USA. It makes me laugh.
I got my copy of SB2 today. It is great. That XR of yours is incredible. where is it now? Did you really "flog the rest of the Wood at a loss"? I'm glad you were at least able to use the wheels and tires i sent. The wheels really did come from Joe Kopp and it is ironic that I got the shipping crate from Kenny Roberts Jr after his wedding. The whole mag looks great. I know Kenny Roberts, Max Schaaf and the guy who owns that road rocket XR1000. Who cares! I wanna know where to get a pink lame' bomber jacket and trick w650 so I can ride to heaven and hang out with that metro racing angel. My gawd is she HAAAAWT!!
You wrote on the note that the picture in the mag was of you. I assume yer the bloke carrying the tires right? I'm gonna have to have surgery on my knee at some point but for now I can walk and play guitar. Do you have any friends that play guitar? I'm selling two beautiful Gibson guitars. One is an electric 1958 Cusom historic reissue Les Paul junior and the other a cherry condition 1993 Gibson L-1 acoustic blues machine. If interested I'll send photos of both. The price would be cheap by British standards. Free health care, HAH!!
God Bless, Chris-sufferin-Sutherland
Here's another shot of a Metro Racing Angel just for Chris.

King Khan in London

Sideblog contributor, Adrian B tells us King Khan and the Shrines are playing London's Boston Music Rooms, Islington on December 11th. Wild dogs won't keep me away. GI

Roadgeeks Old Parks

Gave up the wild-goose chase trying to find THE flat track racing numbers font, when the designer Anna Butler stepped forward & put me straight. "Roadgeeks Old Parks is intended to approximate the font used by the US National Park Service on their highway signs." If anyone out there knows of others / better, please let us know. You can down load it from:
http://www.triskele.com/roadgeek-fonts
font freak BP

Ze Last Chance

Sonic Seb is someone we met through Sideburn, but know we'd have bumped into him eventually anyway. He's based in Paris, builds and races nice, old circuit racers and has a good blog. He also has this street tracker project on the go. He's decided against that swingarm.
Visit his blog at http://zelastchancegaragedu78.blogspot.com/

Street tracker for sale

Jan-Willem of the Dutch Brothers has just spotted this on US eBay. Scroll down a few posts to see how it could be shipped to Europe (that is, if you don't live in the US). We'd turn it back into a race bike. ,

Very nicely done, well executed and showing excellent worksmanship. This is a C&J framed Rotax street tracker special.
Titled and licensed in California, this bike is ready to ride and needs nothing. Ready for you to enjoy or add your own personalizing touches.
Assembled using top quality components.
Penske shock, Yamaha R6 fork with adjustable A&A billet triple clamps.
A&A hubs with a quickchange sprocket and brake rotor in the rear. Laced to Sun alloy rims with stainless steel spokes. Braking wave rotors, floating in the front with Brembo calipers and master cylinders. Maxxis DTR-1 tires, 27.0x7.0x19 front and 27.5x7.5x19 rear.
Stainless header with a Supertrapp muffler.
VDO speedometer and tachometer, Magura throttle and clutch lever. Alloy handlebars in a dirt track bend.
Custom bodywork consisting of a hand made alloy tank with aircraft filler, specially molded ABS seatbase, instrument cover and chain guard. Sale includes the molds for the ABS parts.
Fantastic playbike-canyon carver, this bike will get attention anywhere it goes. It's lighter and with a lower CG then Supermotards.
Just broken in with only 775 miles.
Not duplicatable at the reserve price.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Motorcycles___C-J-FRAMED-ROTAX-STREET-TRACKER_W0QQitemZ220314551549QQddnZMotorcyclesQQddiZ2283QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_motorcycles?hash=item220314551549&_trksid=p4506.c0.m245&_trkparms=72%3A727%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318#ebayphotohosting

Kustom tools

I like these. They remind me of some of the stuff what Von Dutch used to do. They're painted by Doug Dorr.
WWW.DORRSKUSTOMKREATIONS.COM

Ben's Yamaha

Hey Gary and Ben
Thanks for SB2-really dig that King Kenny thing. Gotta love of those '70s half-milers too!
My 'tracker is nearly done, just needs a bit of fettling. Not sure whether to spray it yellow and get some vinyl speed block graphics cut, or to leave it in the raw.
Will get the front wheel relaced to an alloy rim, stick a rear brake on then she's done. Oh, and Don Castro's No 11 on the front!
Later, Ben Charlton