American Motorcycle Flat Track Racing History!
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Archive Moto presents A Brief History of Speed - Part 6 looking at the history of motorcycle racing in America. What started with Indian’s Oscar Hedstrom on the sands of the Floridian coast in Part 1 of the Brief History of Speed series will end on the very same shores a half century later in the upcoming finale, coming full circle after birthing a vibrant culture of motorcycling in America. Take a trip back to the last days of the first Golden Age of motorcycle racing in America and the rise of a new era with the creation of the AMA’s Class C.
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This video is the fifth in the series, _A Brief History of Speed: Part 6_, based off of accompanying articles by the same title published exclusively at ArchiveMoto.com.
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The series revisits the exhibition first created and displayed for The Race of Gentlemen on the sands of Wildwood, NJ, and later featured in an exhibit at the Indian Motorcycle Museum of Australia in Melbourne.
Read each part of the series, and countless others now, only at ArchiveMoto.com.
The Thumbnail photo is of Indian factory champion Ed “Ironman” Kretz following his win of the first Daytona 200 in 1937.
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Written, Narrated, Edited, and Produced by Chris Price, Archive Moto.
Music: Muddy Waters - @GavinLuke, Decision to Leave - @AnnaLandstrom, Wolfpack - @JohannesBornlof
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Outstanding!
@ArchiveMoto
10 ай бұрын
Happy you dig it.
These presentations are SO GREAT I think I'm gonna have to watch them all. So much great info and photos. Excellent narration. Superb editing. Great background music. Well done.
@ArchiveMoto
22 күн бұрын
I appreciate all of the kind words and am happy you have been enjoying the videos, more to come. Take care
@noverguy
22 күн бұрын
@@ArchiveMoto Thanks for all of your great work. I will stay tuned for more!
You know it's going to be a great day when there's a new Archive Moto video! 😃
@ArchiveMoto
10 ай бұрын
I appreciate it, this one kind of got away from me at 17 minutes, probably should have been two, but I hope you enjoyed it.
@magellanicspaceclouds
10 ай бұрын
@@ArchiveMoto Very much so. This paired with my Art of the Racing Motorcycle book is the perfect way to spend my afternoon.
Beautiful clip. Wonderful music. A romantic period of truely gorgeous machines and adventures.
@ArchiveMoto
5 ай бұрын
Many thanks!
A very iconic photo of Jim Davis on the vid. Have you heard the partial audio interview of Jim Davis I think back about 25 years ago. Awesome to listen too. If you know of any other archive audio interviews of Jim, that would be great to know. Cheers.
Great!
Did ya write this? Very cool!
@ArchiveMoto
10 ай бұрын
Thanks, I did, I expanded the series from articles I wrote on my website ArchiveMoto.com. There are a few hundred others there and more videos to come.
Great content as always!
@ArchiveMoto
10 ай бұрын
Appreciate it!
Nice! Really well done!
@ArchiveMoto
6 ай бұрын
Thanks @gregbeierwaltes1884
It would be so nice to have collector books on different manufacturers as in those historical days. But most on amazon or similar are 2nd hand ones released. Quite expensive, but nevertheless great to own.
Beautiful.
@ArchiveMoto
10 ай бұрын
Thank you!
Thank you .
@ArchiveMoto
6 ай бұрын
Happy you enjoyed it, thanks
Least we forget Harley Davidson's XR 750 😇
Why did the AMA designate certain races "TT's", is it purely a hommage to the Isle of Man races, or is there something more to it? Does anyone have a definitive answer?
@ArchiveMoto
7 ай бұрын
My understanding is that the TT, or Tourist Trophy designated a “touring” bike class, essentially street bikes today as they used to be called touring bikes. The Steeplechase TT wasn’t all that common in the US, but featured an irregular track with jumps, so it was somewhat like horse races and open to more road going motorcycles. Reaching way back to the teens pre-AMA they classified the touring class as Stripped Stock, which if you look at the Isle of Man or even later Brit cafe culture, that was essentially the method.
@original1951
3 ай бұрын
A lot of riders died on the wooden tracks