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For those of you who dont know, board track racing was an early form of motorcycle racing dating back to the turn of the last century, more specifically 1910/11 to 1922 or so. the basic premise is you have a racetrack up to two miles long, made out of boards, with turns banked up to 60 degrees and these guys would race around them at speeds up to and over 100 miles an hour with no brakes, no throttle, no safety equipment and balls of steel
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Today the board track era motorcycles are some of the rarest and most valuable bikes out there. and in my opinion are works of art on wheels and marvels of early 20th century engineering with things like the indian 8 valve Vtwin and excelcior overhead cam super X paving the way.
OK! now that you have the backstory on to the project! i will be starting with a western flier trophy bike that i bought from my grandmas neighbor years ago. its a classic cruiser style bike, not quite boardtrack frame style but its still going to look very much period proper when i'm done with it
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sitting in the frame you can see the 2-3hp tecumseh 2 stroke i'm going to be working with on this bike, it will get some cosmetic tweaks and some minor performance improvements (tuned pipe and proper moped type carb with oil injection) i will post more details on the project once i have some stuff to show off, in the meantime who else is workin on something cool with a motor on it!