History of Motorcycle Racing in America....

budman

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Man... I want to watch.

My monitor took a shit today and had to scrape up an extra from the office.. it does not have speakers. Now I have to scrape some of those up. :devil
 
Killroy1999

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ST Guy said:
Haven't watched it yet, but it looks interesting:

The first of five episodes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V8xFmfjV4o
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That's really good. This is really common, because most people are not historians or from the 1800's, its important not to forget pedal bicycle racing. Where do you think those banked tracks came from?

Bicycle racing back in the "Gay '90" (1890s) then was like Formula 1/ NASCAR today. A lot of technology (mentioned a little) and the assembly lines for cars and motorcycles came from bicycles. Bicycles played a large roll in the national highway system, equality, women's suffrage, ect. It took a while for the internal combustion vehicle to catch up to the land speed records set on bicycles.

Obviously, motorcycles were the natural progression.
 
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fufo47

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OaklandF4i said:
Thanks STGuy! More stuff to watch during SIP. :thumbup
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Perfect timing! I had just finished watching the Marc Marquez RedBull championship videos (AND I HATE MARC!) but was running out of options and have alreay watched re-runs of every season dating back to 200.

Great videos, watched the first 2 last night...
 
firstbuell

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Killroy1999 said:
That's really good. This is really common, because most people are not historians or from the 1800's, its important not to forget pedal bicycle racing. Where do you think those banked tracks came from?

Bicycle racing back in the "Gay '90" (1890s) then was like Formula 1/ NASCAR today. A lot of technology (mentioned a little) and the assembly lines for cars and motorcycles came from bicycles. Bicycles played a large roll in the national highway system, equality, women's suffrage, ect. It took a while for the internal combustion vehicle to catch up to the land speed records set on bicycles.

Obviously, motorcycles were the natural progression.
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well, I actually am somewhat a former kinda M/C historian, & it's not only that pushbikes progressed into motobikes, it's that here in U.S. the behemoth ICE contraptions which paced multi-day endurance bicycle races became the inspiration for the 1st Indian motocycles (this preceded H-D startup)
 
fraz

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Killroy1999 said:
That's really good. This is really common, because most people are not historians or from the 1800's, its important not to forget pedal bicycle racing. Where do you think those banked tracks came from?

Bicycle racing back in the "Gay '90" (1890s) then was like Formula 1/ NASCAR today. A lot of technology (mentioned a little) and the assembly lines for cars and motorcycles came from bicycles. Bicycles played a large roll in the national highway system, equality, women's suffrage, ect. It took a while for the internal combustion vehicle to catch up to the land speed records set on bicycles.

Obviously, motorcycles were the natural progression.
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As a guy who has been completely enamored with board track (motorcycle) racing forever, I love to see every bit of history on motorcycles and bicycling. The bicycle board trackers were indeed the origin and the evolution of bicycles at that time. The most amazing to me was the earliest board track bicyclists. They all ran on high-wheelers (aka Penny-farthings) and that is straight nuts. No knee dragging there :)
 
gixxerjeff

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Thank you again ST Guy for finding and providing that link.
I am beyond impressed by the detail and production quality of this series.
:thumbup
 
budman

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Watched 1 & 2.

Good stuff. Seems our host spent some solid hours researching his film. :thumbup
 
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