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Posted 06 October 2008 - 11:43 AM
I know nothing about this , but when I saw it , I thought it was to good not to post .
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Posted 06 October 2008 - 01:15 PM
looking at the age of the pic, that could be Rory riding
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Posted 06 October 2008 - 01:20 PM
looking at the age of the pic, that could be Rory riding
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Posted 10 October 2008 - 09:03 PM
isnt that one of those old bloody argh forget the name bikes where ya had to cheat death and bring ya hand down near the motor to change gears?
guess it would of been fun round a speedway track, imaging laying that over... hehe
...want one now damnit.
guess it would of been fun round a speedway track, imaging laying that over... hehe
...want one now damnit.
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Posted 10 October 2008 - 09:34 PM
couldnt get much closer had a look at a few of them and frame etc had changed over time, early model than this obviously... not the bike i thought
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Posted 11 October 2008 - 12:06 PM
That's a real piece of history , nice old photo !
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Posted 11 October 2008 - 12:25 PM
looking at the age of the pic, that could be Rory riding
Looks like he's going too fast to be Rory
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Posted 11 October 2008 - 02:15 PM
every day is
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Posted 12 October 2008 - 09:32 PM
ROFL HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHlooking at the age of the pic, that could be Rory riding
-Second funniest thing I've heard all day; funniest thing I've heard out of someone else's mouth
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Posted 29 October 2008 - 10:57 PM
couldnt get much closer had a look at a few of them and frame etc had changed over time, early model than this obviously... not the bike i thought
In dirt track racing, Harley-Davidson racer Joe Petrali begins a five-year consecutive streak of winning the AMA Grand National Championship. Petrali also wins the National Hill-Climb Championships for 1932 to 1935.
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Posted 29 October 2008 - 11:06 PM
I know nothing about this , but when I saw it , I thought it was to good not to post .
Just ask the Old Bloke..Here in lies a history lesson......
Guts and Glory on the Boards
12/26/2005
Story and Photos by Neale Bayly
As the sound of thundering V-Twin engines rips through the smoke-filled air, it is joined by the rhythmic clatter of wooden boards and the shouts of a large crowd. Racers clad in leather caps and cloth riding suits crouch with steely determination behind bent handlebars as they jockey for position, banging elbows at over 100 miles per hour. With exposed valve gear chattering, drive chains lashing and flames shooting from the barely muffled engines, riders brave flying splinters and the risk of high-speed get offs without safety barriers. Racing purpose-built single-speed machines, with no clutch or brakes, it is 1914 and these board-track racers are the heroes of the day.
Sitting under the Reading Standard is a 1914 Harley-Davidson, and Dale tells me that most of the bikes raced in this period were all purpose-built factory racers, ridden by the stars of the day. Much like today, privateers rode modified road bikes, and races were held all around the country at sanctioned events on the old board tracks from 1909 until 1928.
There is a myth circulating that the sport of board-track racing ended because it was too dangerous and too many people got killed. It most certainly is a fact that a lot of people did get killed, and on one particularly tragic day in 1912, eight people lost their lives at the Motordrome in Newark, New Jersey: Two racers and six spectators, with a good number of others suffering injury. The real reason for the disappearance of board-track racing, though, was the tracks began to rot out and it was much cheaper to build and maintain dirt tracks. And so America's fascination with going sideways in the dirt developed further with emergence of class C racing, and as many fans of this exciting sport will attest, it is still certainly still very alive and well today.
As dangerous as it was back then, board-track racing was still the most exciting spectacle the motorcycle enthusiast could enjoy, much like modern Superbike
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Posted 30 October 2008 - 06:32 AM
Good read Rory, hopefully it is not too blocky for some members, definitely worth their while to persist ...
I can recall a doco on TV about this. All I could think about is how dangerous that would be? Similar "helmet" and safety gear that was used in the F1's of the era, LOL.
I can recall a doco on TV about this. All I could think about is how dangerous that would be? Similar "helmet" and safety gear that was used in the F1's of the era, LOL.
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