Motorcycle racing is a serious business. It?s time consuming, usually expensive, and always risky. But there are still a few folks willing to have a laugh while chancing an ambulance ride, and Grant Killoran is one of them.
Grant is the marketing manager for Motorcycle Parts Warehouse, based near Brighton on the south coast of England. ?In my ideas for marketing this year, I made a note,? he tells us. ?Take a scrapper, fix it up and take part in DirtQuake.?

DirtQuake, for those outside the small but passionate flat track fraternity in the UK, is an annual ?run what you brung? event owned by a TV company and open to all-comers.
There?s a festival atmosphere, and an air of frivolity as squadrons of mostly crap bikes line up in a series of loose classes.
Like most of us, Grant is saddened when bikes are consigned to the scrap heap, so he decided to rescue one and enter it in DirtQuake. ?Motorcycles elicit so much joy from their riders, it?s a shame to let them die an ignoble death,? he says.
?I wanted to prove you don?t need to be a motorcycle mechanic to breathe life into one of these heaps!?

So the hunt began. At MPW, there?s a bike graveyard?mostly populated by the remains of scooters, and the carcasses of old YZF-R125s that are bent out of shape.
In this pile, Grant discovered a 2015 Sinnis Scrambler. And if you haven?t heard of Sinnis before, that?s okay?neither had we. The bikes are made in China by the Jinan Qingqi Motorcycle Co., there?s a network of over 100 d...