Cyclepimps... whoever these gents were they certainly weren't strapped for cash. Those are some high end machines they are sporting around town circa 1913. A couple of Wagners, a couple of Yales, and an Iver Johnson there in the center.
Here we have a privateer Martin Schroeder of the Savannah Motorcycle Club with a slightly modified 1914 Harley-Davidson, too cool of a shot not to share.
You may have seen this iconic image of two men going head to head on a motordrome's steep angled boards. A few may even point out that it was taken at the Springfield Stadium Motordrome, but unfortunately it has been captioned incorrectly. It is in-fact a moment captured on the high-banked turns of the oval shaped Los Angeles Coliseum, America's first motordrome built by Jack Prince just prior to the construction of the Stadium track at Springfield in 1909. A result of an honest misidentification by the original source, the vast photo collection of Mr. A.F. Van Order. The error has been published countless times, myself included, with the wrong information, but hopefully my upcoming trip to Springfield will produce an equally triumphant photo of a hero or two blasting around the Springfield drome.
GET AT IT! American motorcycle racing pioneer Arthur G. Chapplle blasting down the road course during the New York Motorcycle Club's annual Spring Run held on Sunday May 9, 1909. Chapplle was arguably Indian's second in command behind Jake DeRosier when it came to working magic on the track and he held a lengthy tenure with the Springfield company. Chapplle also served as the Captain of the NYMC and can be seen here with a rooster tail of dust flying off of his factory "torpedo tank" Indian twin.