"pics By Michael Fordham/Influx
Gary Inman, Dirt Quake organiser and editor, publisher and general kingpin of Sideburn Magazine told us a couple of years ago that he'd never do it again. We never believed him.
And as the fifth "
Unless you’ve been living under a rock lately you will have noticed that there’s a new wave of bike culture happening.
All over the planet a new generation of people are getting turned on to motorcycles – and many of them are rejecting on the whole, the offerings of the mainstream bike industry. We’ve documented this shift over the last few years, with the help of Gary Inman – our bike correspondent and one of the chief commentators on and definers of this new way of being a biker.
It made sense to us, then, when Gary asked us if we’d be interested in getting involved in the Dirt Quake 3 – the event that he has created these last few summers with Sideburn Magazine at Kings Lynn dirt track raceway.
What started as a strictly turn left, go fast race event has evolved into a bit of an alt.bike festival, where anyone can come and race and compete – no matter who you are and what you’re riding.
There’s loads of music and other good stuff going on too, naturally.
Great party band MFC Chicken will play straight after the DTRA racing on Friday night, with other good stuff going on in the bar. Inventor and stuntman Colin Furze will be blowing wigs off with his jet bicycle. Guy Martin will race a Harley Chopper on Saturday.
In this spirit of open mindedness, Influx are sponsoring the ‘Inappropriate Bikes’ race category – and we’ll be including a special prize for the person who competes with the most…panache.
It’s not always the person crossing the line that wins.
"In case you hadn't noticed, there's a lot to be said for the simple joy of racing a motorbike around an oval dirt track.
While the noble sport of speedway may be the root of these things, the shale is "
"They said it might never happen again.
And despite protestations to the contrary from INFLUX writer and Sideburn Editor Gary Inman – the riding fast, turning left world is due to descend on Kings Lynn once again this summer.
As usual, "
"There's been a theory wending away our consciousness for a while now that actual, real culture doesn't exist any more. With so many instantaneous communications berzerking its way around the planet, it seems that anything that attaches itself to anything: "
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Our friends at "
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