Early Motorcycle Photos thread

[Indian Man]

 

[New Mexico Brant]

A Flying Merkel from the History San José Collection.

 

[DaytonandElgin]

Boston, Mass., about 1960. Note the small child on the big motorcycle.

(Northeastern University Library. Image donated by the Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston.)

 

[New Mexico Brant]

 

[New Mexico Brant]

Flying Merkel Racer at a track in Dover, Ohio.

 

[DaytonandElgin]

John Steele's Indian shop, Paterson, N.J., 1927.

(Paterson Museum, Rutgers University Libraries.)

 

[New Mexico Brant]

The early teens Triumph spring fork that bicycle companies copied years later:

 

[DaytonandElgin]

Motorcycle officer in Maryland, 1924.

(U.S. Dept. of Commerce, and National Archives.)

 

[New Mexico Brant]

"William J. Teubner and Joseph Merkel after Teubner won the 10-Mile F.A.M. National Championship trophy at the old Point Breeze track in Philadelphia on August 13th, 1910."

Archive Icon: William J. Teubner — Archive Moto

Born on Christmas Day, 1889 in Akron, Ohio William John Teubner became one of the country’s most beloved racing pioneers during his brief career. One of the more fetching champions of the early dirt and clay speedways, the tall, brown-eyed Teubner was described as one of the “cleanest, gamest, and m

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