48 MPH, held by Indian, and a 100 MPH mark timed by Lee Humiston on an Excelsior. Dre also owns Tip Top Tattoo Parlors that specialize in Traditional American Tattooing. Dre owns and operates Tip Top Barber Shops in Southern California. 1920 Harley Davidson Board Track Racer. For more recent exchange rates, please use the Universal Currency Converter. By author Daniel Statnekov. 001-inch crank end float. These signed Open Edition prints come ready to frame and will fit into any 30"x 20" store bought frame. The current owner bought the bike from that museum. 1913 Harley-Davidson 9B Single Cylinder Board Track Racer. This bike is equipped with a Bosch Type ZE1 magneto which appears in good cosmetic shape but of which the mechanical prowess has not been tested.
Frame not included). The overall effect is strikingly beautiful. Made to last a lifetime. This fantastic and rare early Harley-Davidson has been built in the style of a board track racer complete with a direct chain-drive mechanism, iconic downward sweeping board track style handlebars, locked out pedals, and lacking brakes. In its debut year of 1913, factory development riders JA McNeil and Larry 'Cave Man' Fleckenstein were timed at 108 MPH in a Minneapolis motordrome. The first Board Track built for motorcycle racing opened in 1909 in Los Angeles. Not much is known about the first 100 years of this machine's life but around 20 years ago it was built by a gentleman in Texas in the manner it is presented today. An all-around enthusiast, he co-sponsored the Long Island chapter of the Harley Owners Group, the world's largest with 1700 members. This is a very rare Thor Board Track Racer. The following year Hedstrom and Hendee opened their own hometown, pine board motordrome, thus providing Indian with its own test track and works rider Jake DeRosier – one of motorcycle sport's first superstars – with a stage to showcase his immense talent.
Since the debut of the first motordrome, the Los Angeles Coliseum in 1909, nearly 30 of the perilous, steeply banked, wooden saucers had been erected across the country. This Harley-Davidson is typical of the machines that flew around those wild and woolly board-tracks, albeit finished to a much higher state of presentation than the hard-working, often-crashed race-bikes would be back in the day. Solid production numbers and massive success on the race tracks meant that more motorcycles were sold which provided them more money to invest back into the production of new models and technology. The oval board track racers regularly saw speeds of 100mph and better, which is pretty impressive for a machine that put out just a hair over 15hp.
There being no purpose-built motorcycle racetracks in the sport's pioneering years, the first competitive events were held on existing velodromes built for bicycle racing. With original board track racers exceedingly rare and in high demand today, the motorcycle offered here deserves attention. For 1913 Harley-Davidson offered 2 versions of their now tried and true single-cylinder machines, the Model 9A which was belt-driven, and the Model 9B which had a chain drive. Please Note: This motorcycle is being sold on a Bill of Sale only. 2:25pm Cardo Introduces Packtalk Custom And Pay-Per-Feature Packages. There is some spotting and minor pitting present on some of the metal surfaces with a slightly larger pitted section located on the right-side cam cover as well as on the left base of the cylinder. But as the sport grew in popularity, sometimes amassing crowds of more than 80, 000 spectators, so did the technology being incorporated into the machines that were run on these tracks, with these innovations having a direct correlation to the machines that manufacturers were selling to their slightly more mundane everyday street rider. This car is currently located in: Philadelphia, PA. Fire up your imaginations; can you begin to believe what these races must have been like?
8:02pm Ola S1 Scooter Is Best-Selling Electric Scooter In India For February 2023. 3:29pm Indian Unleashes 2023 Challenger RR King Of The Baggers Edition. The restoration still presents very nicely, with the correct colored grey paint laid down smooth and seamless over the tank, frame, and fenders. The connecting rods weighed a delicate 6 and 8 ounces for the plain and forked rods respectively, and the crankcase halves were machined with a mating lip, making it possible to assemble the bottom end with no shims for all those bearings, while maintaining a tight 0. 34 horsepower and featured magneto ignition. This 9B wears a fantastic reproduction Messinger seat which is in great condition and hard mounted to the frame, as you would expect from a board track racer. Crowds were immense. This didn't help a whole lot when a crash occurred on the speedway, where riders would sometimes (gird your loins here, friends) end up with twelve-inch splinters from the wooden track. By 1914, the sensational sport of motorcycle board track racing had become one of America's most popular and controversial past-times. The races themselves were visceral, with upwards of eight men running elbow to elbow at speeds nearing 90 MPH. Baron was known to sling dirt on flat-tracks from time to time but this bike appears to have been built as a showpiece, and in fact, it has been on static display for many years.
The Joerns Manufacturing Co. was under-capitalized and barely managed to sell road machines; racing came first, and racing was very expensive. 1 MPH at the Omaha, Nebraska, board track, which was nearly 20 MPH faster than the internationally recognized world record of 93. N78 MMW 23, 23 WITH NEW MOTO MAGS. Few of us can afford it but that doesn't mean we can't look at the pictures! This beautifully rustic example maintains the throttle and decompression controls on the dropped handlebars, along with Indian's signature rigid fork and Bosch magneto. "Most of all, though, Gene Baron was a gentle soul in a sport that was rough around the edges, " said friend Bob Lowery, past director of the HOG chapter.
The example on offer here is a 1913 Harley-Davidson 9B Single Cylinder, engine number 934D. The current owner and consignor, an early Harley-Davidson aficionado, purchased the motorcycle approximately 15 years ago at which time it joined his collection of numerous other early Harley-Davidson machines. Officials at the Federation of American Motorcyclists (FAM) simply could not accept the 111 MPH figure. Weak points included the exhaust valve, valve stirrups, steel pistons, and the frames, with breakages common enough that few Cyclone board trackers still use their original chassis. "When people think of Gene Baron, the word 'gentleman' always comes to mind. Unlike its direct-drive Big Base predecessor, these standard 8-Valve racers maintained the jackshaft primary configuration. These quality pomades have been developed by experts of their craft.
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Now, as a part of the Motorsport Network we reach 62 million+ in market shoppers and automotive enthusiasts worldwide a month. The effect produced flames emitting from nearly every angle of the engines, requiring riders to protect their legs from burns, a common injury in the sport. In 2016 The Journal, brought to you by, was celebrated as the SECOND MOST INFLUENTIAL automotive blog in the world by NFC Performance. There's certainly nothing rough around the edges about this 74-inch JD-powered board-tracker, spectacularly turned out in Harley olive green with red coach-lining and lettering. 's first-class Customer Support team with a Stevie Bronze Award in 2019, celebrating the team's skills as exemplary customer support specialists.