Old Empire Motorcycles ... the right handgrip on its droopy board tracker-style handlebar: It's thinly leather-wrapped, and features a reverse brake lever, a custom-machined thumb start and ...

For example, once upon a time, a Cyclone board track racer earned its place as the world's most expensive motorcycle, only for it to be dethroned years later. Created by the Joerns Motor ...

The oval race track is only 1/16th of a mile long, and it’s coated with syrup from Dr Pepper soda to make it sticky. On Friday, motorcycles, minibikes and mopeds will rip around that track at ...

However, at one point in history, over a century ago, motorcycle racing had quite a different face. Specifically, a face made up of angled wooden planks. This was the era of board track racing ...

Race officials and the motorcycle manufacturers that sponsored racing teams tried to implement measures to slow down the bikes, but that went nowhere. By the early 1930s, board-track motorcycle ...

Board Track Racing at the Murderdomes! In 1910, the nascent motorcycle industry turned to competition to not only improve their products but to publicise them to the ever-growing motorcycling ...

Better yet, you’ll be quite intrigued by one of Mecum Auctions’ latest listings: a barn-find 1914 Indian Board Track Racer formerly ... built “superbikes” in motorcycle history.

Photographer A.F. Van Order captured the thrills and spills of board-track motorcycle racing in the 1910s David Schonauer Many of the tracks A.F. Van Order frequented were built of wood and banked ...