Tagged: board track racing

Classic Board Track Racing

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....

Wall of Death

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Board Track Racing Was Balls Out

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The Most Expensive Motorcycle In History – A 1915 Cyclone Board Track Racer

And it’s not a Brough Superior… Three years ago, a 1915 Cyclone board track racer sold at auction in the United States for US$551,000. You read that right, and it’s not a Harley, a Crocker, a Vincent,  an Indian or a Brough Superior. In fact, the manufacturer was a short-lived...