{"id":24921,"date":"2012-01-19T13:46:03","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T13:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=24921"},"modified":"2022-06-30T15:29:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T14:29:00","slug":"rollerburn-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/features\/rollerburn-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rollerburn!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Images Sideburn \/Jonny Wilson\/Subsculptures<\/p>\n

Britain has some great motorcycle events, but many are as stale as the last supper\u2019s leftovers. A few years after first launching our own independent motorcycle magazine, the Sideburn<\/strong> team started thinking about bigger events. We were jealous of cross-genre shows in Yokohama and Brooklyn and knew British riders needed something more stimulating than sitting in a field wearing a jester\u2019s hat while listening to an AC\/DC tribute band.<\/p>\n

The result was Rollerburn. Held last November, in Nottinghamshire, it mixed a broad custom show with a slalom skateboard race. It threw in a full, all-girl roller derby match and an art show. Thirty dealers and three bands set up. A couple of Arctic Monkeys paid on the door. Comedian Charlie Chuck<\/strong> destroyed a drum kit. Donkey!<\/p>\n

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Sideburn magazine focuses on motorcycles that \u2018go fast, turn left\u2019 from the worlds of dirt track and speedway, and also the road bikes loosely inspired these worlds and the DIY ethic, but we wanted Rollerburn to have much wider appeal.<\/p>\n

The roller girl connection came from feature we did on the cult 1970s movie Rollerball<\/strong><\/a>. Roller girls go fast and turn left too. And a lot of them are better looking than the majority of people who turn up at British bike events. They were in.<\/p>\n\n\t\t