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Offline Accolay

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"The Early, Deadly Days of Motorcycle Racing"
« on: April 04, 2011, 08:15:20 AM »
Interesting article in Smithsonian Magazine.

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It was in 1911 that a livery worker named Ashley Franklin Van Order moved from Illinois to Southern California so he could ride his motorcycle year-round

Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/The-Early-Deadly-Days-of-Motorcycle-Racing.html#ixzz1IZG2xRnG
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Re: "The Early, Deadly Days of Motorcycle Racing"
« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2011, 04:02:58 AM »
Thanks! I can't imagine being impaled by track splinters. :o :o
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Re: "The Early, Deadly Days of Motorcycle Racing"
« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2011, 09:44:17 AM »
I got to see Jim Davis, and hear him speak..at the Del mar Mile in 86.. he was  pretty well known on the boardtracks..
 and we got to see the Mile dirt track.. too bad the bikes were muffled..
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Re: "The Early, Deadly Days of Motorcycle Racing"
« Reply #3 on: April 08, 2011, 12:11:54 AM »
There was a board track once near where my wife grew up. They still call it the racetrack subdivision. There is a construction company on a part of the former track now. They have dug through layers of straw and wood buried where the track was.
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Re: "The Early, Deadly Days of Motorcycle Racing"
« Reply #4 on: April 08, 2011, 01:01:11 PM »
That is an interesting article, thanks. Our local council's website has a couple of photos from a 1923 sprint that was held locally, I do like the atmosphere of them.

The start:

http://www.noah.norfolk.gov.uk/ShowImage.aspx?Img=http://image1.norfolk.gov.uk/full/photo/30129028196120.jpg

The paddock:

http://www.noah.norfolk.gov.uk/ShowImage.aspx?Img=http://image1.norfolk.gov.uk/full/photo/30129028196088.jpg



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