Old School Square Off – Hot Rod vs Motorcycle

Posted: June 13, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment »

Old School Square Off – Car vs Motorcycle

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Classic Board Track Racing

Posted: June 13, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment »

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During the years between 1910 and the end of the 1920s, thrill-seeking motorcycle riders from rough-hewn roots converged on circular or oval race courses built from planks of “green lumber”.

This type of track, often enormous and bracketed by grandstands filled with yowling, well-lubricated fans, was often called a motordrome. Less sanguine scribes of the day referred to them as “murderdromes” for their penchant to produce spectacular, high speed racing. The breakneck racing on them also resulted in vicarious thrills and regular, grisly casualties among riders. In a few notorious incidents, swaths of spectators were injured (and even killed) as the riders left the track and scythed them down in their seats.

The majority of the American national championship races were contested at such venues across the nation during the 1920s from California to Ohio to New York.

While board tracks were relatively inexpensive to construct, they fell apart with alarming speed and regularity. As a result, they lacked durability and required a great deal of maintenance to remain rideable.

Tracks survived for as little as three years, and were summarily abandoned.

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Pitcher Bob Feller Blows A Fastball Past a Police Motorcycle

Posted: June 12, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment »

I had a friend was a big baseball player
back in high school
He could throw that speedball by you
Make you look like a fool boy

- Bruce Springsteen, Glory Days

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The Fastball vs. Motorcycle Race begins at the 1:00 minute mark…

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Matt Olsen’s 1923 Harley JD Board Track Racer

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Matt Olsen’s 1923 Harley JD Board Track Racer

Matt Olsen lives the midwest and restores old motorcycles at Carl’s Cycle Supply with his dad and two other employees.

If you need to contact him for information, please email him at amcayouthprogram@hotmail.com or check out their website at www.carlscyclesupply.com

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Born-Free 5 Invited Builder Series-Matt Olsen of Carl’s Cycle Supply from Born-Free on Vimeo.

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When BSA Ran With the Pack

Posted: June 6, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment »

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The Birmingham Small Arms Company Limited, or BSA, was an enormous industrial operation which churned out, among other items, military and sporting weaponry; bicycles; motorcycles; cars; buses, coach work; steel; iron castings; tools of all stripe; coal cleaning and handling plants; sintered metals; and hard chrome processes.

At it’s glorious apex, BSA was the largest producer of motorcycles in the world.

But as is the way with all grand enterprises over time, flagging sales and a series of ill-conceived new products in the motorcycle division, (read Triumph Motorcycles) led to the ultimate dissolution of the conglomerate.

The British armed forces chose the 500 cc side-valve BSA M20 motorcycle as the preferred machine and at the onset of war the Government requisitioned some 690 machines BSA had in stock – and placed an order for another 8,000.

Times were good, but within the next couple of decades, the largest motorcycle producer in the world was overrun by an assault wave of superior and forward-thinking products from Honda and Yamaha.

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The Bobber Motorcycle As Art

Posted: June 6, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment »

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The bobber is as essentially complete as a carbon molecule. Nothing else is required for the pure adrenaline pumping thrill of riding.

A bobber is Scarlett Johansson without makeup or a Victoria’s Secret pushup bra.

The bobber, in it’s pure form, is a machine stripped down to the absolute essentials of what a motorcycle needs to be to function at its mechanical best…

Read more about The Evolution of the Bobber Motorcycle here…

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The Bogie

Posted: June 4, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

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Photos by Todd Halterman, MotoFotoStudio.com

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You Meet the Nicest People On a Honda

Posted: June 4, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

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Photo by Todd Halterman, MotoFotoStudio.com

Grey Advertising, at the time a major player in the U.S. ad game, came up with a campaign anchored by the catchy slogan, “You Meet the Nicest People on a Honda,” and it
was peopled by an unlikely array of “bikers” such as housewives, a parent and child, young couples and other “respectable” members of society.

Referred to as “the nicest people”-the fantastic depiction of these invented Honda 50 devotees struck a chord among those who would otherwise have recoiled in horror at the thought of buying, much less riding, a motorcycle.

Against all odds, this cornball bit of salesmanship…worked.

Mothers who once were sure to respond to their adolescent child’s plaintive keening for a motorcycle – any motorcycle – with a dismissive snort, suddenly found themselves closing out the argument with, “I’ll buy you one, if it’s a Honda.”

Feel free to blame the Honda 50 for becoming the ultimate “gateway motorcycle,” as ownership of one led thousands of otherwise sensible children to become my kind of Scooter Trash.

While you may meet the nicest people on a Honda, it takes a machine of considerable more displacement to bring out the Sausage Creature, but once that inner Mad Dog is released beside the wild centerline of the Lost Highway on two wheels, it’s so long to being a citizen…

Scaled Down Indian Thunderstroke From Glynn Kerr Motorcycle Design

Posted: June 3, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Indian Motorcycle needs to take a hard look at this design. After all, Indians used to be hot, stripped down machines for hard riders.

Note to Polaris: The world doesn’t need more Harleys, it needs an American-made alternative a working man can afford. And it needs to go fast and take corners at speed.

Just sayin’…

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Moby Dick – The Immaculate Brough Superior

Posted: June 3, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

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