Exteme Performance Bike Weekend

This weekend, the 9th and 10th October, sees the finals of the Straightliners drag race championship and ACU drag bike championship, as well as the Straightliners Stunt Championship, at Santa Pod Raceway.
Both ACU and Straightliners classes (but not RWYB) have the Eurodragster.com / Speedflow 'Perfect Light' award with £50 for the first person to run a 0.000 reaction time, and the Eurodragster.com / Gold RV 'Perfect ET' award to the first rider to run a prefect bracket or dial-in time (ie a 10.100 in the Straightliners 10.10 class) and there's fifty quid up for grabs there too, although to qualify the bike must carry a Eurodragster.com/Gold RV sticker, available from the siging-on office.
The running order is here

Streetfighter Trophy up for grabs at Brightona!

This weekend (10th October) we're sponsoring the Streetfighter Trophy in the custom show at Brightona, which will be held this Sunday (10th October) in - yep, you guessed it - Brighton.

Brightona's a huge event and raises lots of cash for the Sussex Heart Charity (in 2009 it raised over £21,000), and one of the star attractions is Harrison BILLET's custom show. If you want to enter your pukka fighter in the show and be in with the chance of a trophy, just find a marshal when you arrive and tell them that you want to display your bike.

Other attractions include live bands, hot rods, trade stands and a Wall of Death, whilst entry is £5 on a bike (or free on foot).

More details on the event at: http://brightona.brighton-rock.net/

Ohm, Ohm On The Range...

One of the most impressive sights on the quarter mile is that of Top Fuel motorcycles, with Larry 'Spiderman' McBride being the most famous, and most successful, contender in the sport.
As such, Larry was drafted in to ride a bike that is almost the antithesis of the nitromethane-breathing, earth-shaking, bowel-moving Fuelers - an electric drag bike... The sound is strange, the numbers impressive!

Due to the low sound level of the electric motor, in comparison to a nitro motor, you can actually hear how hard the rear tyre is working!

Charity Build

Those of you who have been following the progress of the Little Lives GSX-R in the pages of the magazine will know the reasoning behind its build.
The driving force behind the project is Dave 'Emoe' East, and with the generous support of various members of the streetfighting community, he's building a tricked-up GSX-R 750 which will be raffled off to generate a fat wad of cash to donate to the neonatal unit at Milton Keynes hospital.
Now, the plan was to raffle off the bike, plus varous goodies donated to the cause, on the 1st November, with the lucky punter collecting the bike from the International Motorcycle Show at the NEC in December.
However, due to Emoe's baby son, Hayden, having some serious health problems, the project has (rightfully) taken a back seat for a while, and while the raffle will indeed take place on November 1st, the bike build may take longer than originally intended...
Even so, the winner will gain himself (or herself) a fully-finished bespoke 'fighter, with stacks of trick goodies, as the build-up thread on Emoe's website shows (here). There's also additional pruizes in the form of a pair of his 'n hers Sartso jeans from Wildandwicked.com, a tee shirt and hoodie from Moorespeed Racing and a year's subscription to Streetfighters magazine. So, four prizes and a worthy cause to which to donate your money. Head here to get yourself your tickets.

SF201

Streetfighters #201 is currently running through the steam-driven, orc-operated satanic paper mills in deepest, darkest, errr, Wolverhampton...
Heading out to subscribers tomorrow, it'll be on newsagents shelves from Thursday 7th October, and will contain not only glorious technicolour pics and flowery prose describing the camo 7/11 displayed on the cover, but also numerous other feature bikes, project updates, sports reports and irrelevant ramblings from the barely-coherent editorial duo...

Uncovered By Full Cover Companies

It seems that those companies that broker or supply motorcycle insurance cover have realised that the far greater sector of their core business is blokes...

This first pic comes from Bennetts and shows two of their 'Bennetts babes' getting lathered up with 'busty beauty' (c. The Sun 1977) Lucy Pinder as part of Bennetts eightieth birthday celebrations...

And this second shows a sneak preview of the Adrian Flux 2011 calendar!

All Together... Aaaaah...

Some of you may remember Leigh 'Fish' Russon, either for his trick Bandit that was featured back in issue 163, or, more likely, the utterly hilarious video of him flipping the bike at Santa Pod, with his good lady Megan subsequently falling A-over-T in her rush to aid her stricken bloke.
After rebuilding his Bandit in a crystal white, even tricker form, Leigh and Megan tied the knot, and rabid snapper (and closet paparazzi) Everett, passed on the evidence.
Congrats to them both!

Show bikes needed!

On Sunday 3rd October at Santa Pod, the JapShow Finale is occurring. This isn't an excuse to gather round, eat sushi and compare your Hello Kitty handbags though. No, it's an event for all petrolheads, and especially those with a particular interest in those rapid vehicles which are Oriental in origin, to gather and watch these bikes and cars getting thrashed up the strip.

And there's a show n' shine too, open to Jap-based motorcycles - and The Pod are after streetfighters to display, with trophies and prizes to give away to winners. If you're interested in displaying your bike, please contact Chris at chris@santapod.com or on 01234 782828.

Tickets for the event cost from just £12 for Sunday and £20 for the weekend, and to book call 01234 782828 or visit www.japshow.co.uk

Fighterama Show Entries

We had a number of people asking how they should go about obtaining a show bike entry to Fighterama, as they have modified bikes that they feel of a quality suitable for Europe's (nay, the world's) most prodigious streetfighter show.
So, for those interested, they should email bewerbungen@fighters-magazin.de with some pics and basic details of their bike and they can, of course, write in English.
Good luck, and we'll see you there!
More details on Fighterama can be found here

Icon Ography

Icon are an American manufacturer of alternative motorcycle safety wear - the sort of helmets, jackets, gloves and boots that really fit into the streetfighter way of life. And they've got a blog too, here, we especially like the 'Polaroid Fame' sections...

SF200

The double centenary issue of Streetfighters is, even as I type, being manhandled by posties the length and breadth of Britain as it makes its way to subscribers doorsteps.


The bumper issue, complete with gert big pullout poster, will be on newsagents shelves from Thursday 2nd September...

New Wheelie Record!

Shane Egan, aboard his Holeshot Racing-equipped turbo GSX-R 1000, broke the existing flying kilometre wheelie record with an astounding 181.6mph run on Saturday 21st August at Elvington airfield!
More details in Streetfighters issue 201!

Manx Grand Prix

Those of you in touch with the road racing scene will be aware that the Manx Grand Prix is currently mid-way through practice week, with the amateur races featuring not only classes for modern machinery but also classic and post-classic.
The post-classic is of particular interest as it's open to bikes such as early GSX-Rs, FZ750s and the like, includng a pair of Suzuki XR69s ridden by Micheal Dunlop and the world-famous bugger grips as affixed to Guy Martin.
Conveniently, for those of us who haven't ventured over the Irish Sea to the world capital of road racing, there's live coverage of the racing, and loads of other info, via the internet at MGP Festival

Stunt Bike Football

The Vertical Trix guys show off their skills for the BBC. Click the title for the link.

Just to be clear - this is the only kind of football that Streetfighters endorses. Anything else is for overpaid pansies. So if a stranger comes up to you in the street and tries to tempt you into a field with an inflated leather bag of wind, remember kids - just say no.

Clicky

Stunt bike football will be one of the disciplines at next weekend's Vertical Trix European Stunt Competition at the South West Motorcycle Show, held at Westpoint Arena, Exeter on Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th August. More details from South West

Ooh, look...

... what we found! We've had a bit of a clear-out in the SF office - thanks to some suits deciding that archive boxes couldn't be left underneath desks - and we've found a fair few old pics, including this one of the lovely Bobbi from South Wales! Unfortunately, this does mean that Will is now spending most of the day in the toilet with a laminated printout of this pic...

Speed & Wheelie Weekend

Only handful of days left to go before this year's Wheelie and Speed Records weekend at Elvington airfield, just outside York.
With the wheelie speed record currently sat at 174mph, and with at least four turbo Gixer Thous set to compete, plus Dodge on his supercharged Hayabusa, could 2010 see a new record at last?

With regards to the top speed attempts, we've seen over 250mph at ELvington before, courtesy of Jarrod 'Jack' Frost of Holeshot Racing, and with a greater numberof landpseed specific bikes being built of late, it looks like we'll be seeing plenty more machines capable of over four miles in a minute...
Elvington plays host to mono and two-wheeled speed freaks on Saturday 21st August and Sunday 22nd August, and the airfiled can be found just off the B1228
here
More details on 200mph

Bulldog Splash

While the heavy police presence of the previous two years was pretty much absent, the overbearing presence of rain-laden rain clouds wasn't...

this was as close as most people got to the drag strip! More Bulldog news in SF201, out October 2nd...

Dirty Speed

While the boys in blue consider any speed to be naughty, especially anything over 70mph, just have a think about how fast 252mph must feel like. Then think about what it must be like when that speed is achieved when riding, not on supersmooth runway-type tarmac, but on the dusty, dry dirt surface of El Mirage in southern California...
That was the speed that John Noonan (main main at JE Pistons) recorded on the 1.3 mile dry lake bed course of El Mirage, when he rode the Hayabusa prepped by Brock Davidson of Brocks Performance.
The final tally was 252.035mph, which is the fastest speed for any vehicle this year at El Mirage, and the Big CC turbo-equipped Suzuki now holds the record for the fastest bike speed on dirt (albeit 20mph lower than the top speed acheived on tarmacadam).
More info at Dragbike.com

Pic by Zane McNary

A Busy Weekend Ahead

With one of Europe's biggest biker parties kicking off on Thursday, as the Bulldog Bash kicks into loud and raucous life, most of the UK's Superstreet drag racers already on their way to the NitrOlympics at Hockenheim in Germany for perhaps the biggest drag race in Europe, England's famous Donington Park circuit being reborn with the Classic Revival and Round 5 of the Straightliners drag race series at North Weald on Sunday, now is the time to be checking the weather forecasts and deciding where you're going...
More details from Bulldog, Hockers, Donington and Straightliners

Better late...

After a few days delay, the subscribers issues of 199 have been delivered, and newsagents shelves will be displaying the issue from tomorrow, for those not-yet organised enough to sort out a subscription...