The History of Board Track Speedway Motorcycle Racing

Archive Moto presents A Brief History of Speed - Part 4 looking at the history of motorcycle racing in America. This episode picks up as the legendary but volatile board track motordromes in America began closing their gates for good. Road racing and flat tracks were the next, most obvious focus for the industry and sport, but a new, massive type of track would soon take the country by storm. This is the motorcycle racing at its most glorious in the remarkable age of the board track speedway.


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This video is the first in the series, _A Brief History of Speed: Part 4_, based off of accompanying articles by the same title published exclusively at http://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.

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The Thumbnail photo is Harley-Davidson Wrecking Crew member and American motorcycle racing icon Ralph Hepburn on a background image of a race held at the Beverly Hills Speedway in 1921.

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Written, Edited, and Produced by Chris Price, Archive Moto.
Music: Wolfpack - Johannes Bornlof


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