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btrider

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The AMA is celebrating 100 yrs and covering some history in their magazine. I'm amazed at the very early bikes 1900's, teens, 20's 30's the speed records, the board track speeds, the endurance runs just to name a few of the venues. Some of these early machines were not much more than bicycles and they went faster than I've ever been on a bike. You see the bikes at shows and maybe read a fact or two but it's just a tiny bit of what really went on.
 
As part of my genealogical research I review old newspapers and I enjoy reading about life 100+ years ago, and perusing the various automotive and motorcycle ads. Here are a couple of Indian ads from today's research.

Note the For Sale item at the bottom of the ad.
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70 mph on a motorcycle in 1916 was nothing to be sneezed at.
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