A Real Formula for Disaster - Part III
Board track racing was an exciting opportunity for young men to gain notariety and make some serious money. They could earn $2,000 a...
A Real Formula for Disaster - Part II
Board track racers of the nineteen-teens and early nineteen-twenties were motorcycles on steroids. Most featured highly modified and...
A Real Formula for Disaster - Part I
As motorcycle engines increased in power, so did their speed. A modified V-twin of the nineteen-teens could produce 30 to 45 horsepower;...
Motoball... Where Have You Been Hiding?
Motorcycle Polo, or Motoball, as it is called in Europe, is essentially a soccer game where the players are on motorcycles. The ball is...
A Hero on Two Wheels
A newspaper clip from July 5, 1929, in the Philadelphia Public Ledger about the my Uncle Harry after he was severely burned during a...
In the Beginning
Motorcycling has been in my family since the 1920s. Pictured is my Uncle Frank and my dad sitting atop my Uncle Harry's 1926...
