Rollie Free Returns?

If so, he's living in India...

Closer To the Hedge?

I was lucky enough to manage to blag my way into the premier for the new TT film, TT3D - Closer To The Edge, last night. Not because I wanted to hobnob it amongst the stars and glitterati, but simply due to the fact that I'd seen the trailer (below) and knew that I just had to see it...



Rest assured, it's everything that you'd expect after seeing that trailer, and more. If you've never been to the TT then it gives you a true flavour of what it's all about, and if you have been, then you'll enjoy it all the more.
Focussing around TV's favourite canal barge pilot, Guy Martin, as well as the softly-spoken Ian Hutchinson, John McGuinness and bean pole Manx hero Conor Cummins, the timing for the filming couldn't have been better as, with the 2010 race results, and what happened to all four of those riders, it couldn't have been scripted any better.

My favourite film of all time used to be Mad Max, followed by Bladerunner and Dr Strangelove, but they've all been surpassed by this astounding film. The 3D element does add a certain attraction, but it's not really what it's about - it's the love and passion for true road racing in the world's most amazing race. Watch it.

It's on release, in 3D cinemas, from April 22nd.

Straightliners Round 3

This Sunday, the 17th March, sees Straightliners back at Elvington for the first time in 2011 for Round 3 of the championship, alongside Round One of the Terminal Velocity top speed championship, as run over the standing start 1/2 mile.
Entry for spectaors is a tenner, just follow signs for the Yorkshire Air Museum off the A64.

It's Czech, Mate

The Czech Republic isn't a country that is known for its motorcycle industry, but maybe this is the start?...

Not the most svelte of machines, the reason being that the FGR Midalu is shunted forward by a massive 2500cc V6 engine, claimed to make in the region of 240bhp!

The factory claim that that's enough to make it the world's most powerful production bike. Well, it will if it makes it into production, which will hopefully be the case within six months. More info in the next issue of Streetfighters...

Behind The Scenes at Bulldock

Whilst they were over in Japan last year, Boxer and his chum, Jason Fullington, called in to Bulldock Mototcycles in Tochigi. Regular readers will have seen the features of the gorgeous, and very trick, Zeds that Boxer photographed while they were there, and here's some video footage of their visit, sushi-side...

You can see more stuff from Boxer on his online telly channel - HoonTV, and the cool Icon gear that Jason is always seen wearing in such style (what is this, Hello?) will shortly be available in the UK through Parts Europe

SF207

Hot off the printers' presses today, Streetfighters 207 will be winging its way to subscribers within 24 hours, and well be on newsagents shelves on Thursday April 7th.
Never mind the bollocks, issue 207 contains the radical 'Punk Rod' Yamaha FZ, some astounding mini streetfighters from Indonesia, the Suzuki that we alluded to here on the blog a few weeks ago, a stealthy Honda X11, a tattoo'd Suzuki, a flat tracker Kwak from Lancashire, a TL Thou that's not for arachnophobes, plus much more, including a feature on how you can get insurance cover for your modified bike...

Brighton Peer

Live on the south coast? Bored?
Head down to Brighton next Saturdday (the 19th March), and you'll be able to see a shootout (swell, more like a 'drift-out') between Marc 'Sparky' Chenel and Belinda 'DriftHer' Challis in a two wheels versus four smoke-filled challenge!

It'll be part of the InCarNation show in Brighton, in cooperaton with the Ace Cafe London, and Sparky will also have his wheelie machine in attendance, and the Eastcoast FMX guys will also be there, doing daft stuff like climbing off a motorcycle while it's thirty feet up in the air...

Race Season Underway!

As from next Sunday, March 13th, the UK drag race season is underway, kicking off with the first round of the Straightliners championship at Santa Pod.
There's a Run What You Brung meeting the day before, giving people time to dial their bikes in before the opening round, and overnight camping is available.
It's also the first round of the Straightliners / Stunt Store UK stunt championship at the Santa Pod meeting, so expect world-standard stunting too!

The evening of Friday 4th March will see streetfighters and loonies descending on the Ace Cafe, North London, for the third monthly Streetfighter Night of 2011. Sponsored by Streetfighters Mag, Fighters Mag (Germany) and Bomber Mag (Finland), it's the premier streetfighter event in that there London Taaahhhhhn.

Expect gorgeous bikes, naughty ladies, delicious grub, no jellied eels, cold beer and top prizes including, for this month only, a pair of tickets to the single evening screening of I, Superbiker, at the Apollo Cinema, Piccadilly on Monday 14th March.

See you there.

SF206

Subscribers with efficient postmen will have received their copy this morning, but the rest of you will have to wait until it hits the newsagents' shelves next week. Unless, of course, you happen to be going to the London International Custom Show at Alexandra Palace this weekend, as we'll have copies on sale on the Streetfighters stand.

Aside from Marie's marvellous Martek, the new issue contains features on Frank's fantastic 7/12, a tremendous Taylornmade VMAX, Magpie's magical ZXR, a brilliant black Fazer, a perfectly painted Polish Gixer, and, err, lots more too...

No, It's Not Australian...

The Nembo is, in fact, an Italian creation and, as you'll see if you scrutinise the pics, designed around an engine that is, in the covnetional sense, upside down.
The reasoning is that the crankcases atre the strongest part of the engine assembly so, when using the engine as a stressed member of the chassis, the assembled bike is stronger of the engine is mounted thus.
Although we think that the Nembo engineers have been on the grappa as, after all, this cofiguration will make for a top heavy bike that requires additional oil pumps and will be a bugger to check the valve clearances on...

Project If Only...

You may remember the Project If Only SV650 that Yantosh was building last year? Well, Yan finished the wee beastie although, due to general editorial lethargy, we've not actually managed to get it photographed yet.
To prove that it was finished, and that it lives, here's a video...

SF205

Fresh off the press and winging its way to subscribers' doors right now is the new issue of Streetfighters.


With the wondrous Holly Peers utterly naked, bar a pair of boots, and adorning the centre spread minimalist GSX-R, issue 205 also contains an ultra-trick Kawasaki, mono-wheeling antics from a KR-1S, B-King and turbo Gixer Thou, a cafe racer-cum-flat tracker from the US, a clever Bandit/Gixer hybrid, an elaborate GS750 and all the usual race reports, project updates and irreverant ramblings.
SF205, on sale in newsagents on Thursday 3rd February.

Zed's Not Dead

Over the last year, we showed you a number of extremely trick Kawasaki Zeds built by the Bulldock concern in Japan. To give you an idea of just how big the air-cooled musclebike scene is like in the Land of the Rising Sun, here's a video of a Zed meeting...

Future Shock

Many members of society are firmly of the belief that the future of personal transport lies with electric vehicles. If this is the case, then we should soon be seeing electric bikes that could, loosely, be labelled beneath the 'streetfighter' banner, much like this design project undertaken by Dan Anderson.



The 'Volta' is a design study by Australian Dan, undertaken during his industrial design degree.



Consequently, there's not actually a running Volta as yet, but with electric vehicles very much in the limelight, it's only a matter of time before we see a production electric bike along these lines.





Of course, there are those people who say that the so-called green electric vehicle is no such thing, given the environmental debt inflicted by the mining of the rare metals required to manufacture the high tech batteries, and the fact that those batteries will need to be regularly charged too. Of course, time will tell what happens with private transport...

Road Kill

As you'll know by now, having scrutinised each and every page of the most recent issue, SF204 features Paul 'Sideshow Bob' Kyle's fat-tyred FireBlade.

Since the bike was photographed for Streetfighters, Paul has decided to upgrade various parts of the Blade, and you can follow his progress on the Custom Fighters forum

Finishing On A High

Following on from our feature on French hill-climbing a couple of issues ago, here's a short video of a young man on a GS750-powered hillclimber - a young man who obviously starts out meaning to take it easy but, by the time he gets to the top of the hill...

High Plains Drifters

While car drifting is far too 'Top Gear' for our liking, we do like Kawasaki ZX-10Rs with stretched swinging arms, we do like Nick 'Apex' Brochta and we do like the guys at Icon clothing, who commisioned this here video...

Those Long Winter Nights Must Be Flying By...

Take a couple of disposable lighters...

Take them to bits carefully...

Stick them back together in a different way...

And you end up with...

Something that you'll not be able to use to light your bifter...

There's Fast... And There's FAST!

And this is most definitely fast!
Bill Warner, pilot of the turbocharged Hayabusa in question, clocks 278.6mph on this run. Just check out how fast it's accelerating when the bike passes through the 270mph mark...