The History of the Motorcycle Hillclimb

Archive Moto presents A Brief History of Speed - Part 5 looking at the history of motorcycle hillclimbing in America. By the early 1920s, motorcycle racers had kicked-up tails of dirt and dust on flat tracks, kept crowds breathless and on the edge of the motordrome bleacher, and stretched out to the limit the capabilities of iron and rubber on the colossal board track speedways. The first two decades of the sport had been a sensation, but as its popularity waned, a small and dedicated group of competitors continued duking it out in front of spellbound crowds. Like the rodeo cowboys before them, the men of the motorcycle hillclimb, America's slant artists, and slope jockeys pursued glory on the finest line between chaos and control.
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This video is the fifth in the series, _A Brief History of Speed: Part 5_, based off of accompanying articles by the same title published exclusively at 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.
Read each part of the series, and countless others now, only at ArchiveMoto.com.
The Thumbnail photo is of Indian co-founder Carl Oscar Hedstrom with his prototype racing single, possibly the first factory works Indian racer, in front of the Ormond Hotel, March 1903.
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Written, Narrated, Edited, and Produced by Chris Price, Archive Moto.
Music: I Will Remember - @GavinLuke
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[@jamestregler1584]

Great job and hill climbing is still going strong especially in France 😎 Thanks from old New Orleans 😇

[@blindlemonpiesky]

Very well put together. Great sound track and narration is five star.

[@ArchiveMoto]

I appreciate the kind words, happy you enjoyed it.

[@noverguy]

Another fantastic presentation! Where else yah gonna find this interesting info! Great work! Thank you so much!

[@ArchiveMoto]

Thanks again!

[@DetroitMicroSound]

👍Excellent work! ...I'd love to see one about the entire history of Henderson.

[@danielnewman3441]

This is an awesome video. I enter at least 3 hill climbs a year.

[@ArchiveMoto]

That is awesome! I have no business on anything very capable but I’d love to give an old flathead a go up a hill one day.

[@glennjudd2467]

Nice , love it !

[@MrKalashnikov47]

Very well put together,you have a naturally good voice for narration. Thanks.

[@ArchiveMoto]

Thank you kindly!

[@PatrickTowers]

no mention of mt garfield

[@justin-mg8bi]

These guys have balls of steet

[@ArchiveMoto]

Not to mention calves of asbestos with the flames that would shoot out of their cylinders.

[@PatrickTowers]

@@ArchiveMoto or listening to the wife when you get home