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@mattheide2775 8 минут бұрын

Great video and Channel. Boardtrack racing seems to be the most insane form of racing I can imagine. The Isle of Mann is a close second. Hard men indeed.

@ArchiveMoto 19 секунд бұрын

Thanks so much. Motordromes were a breed all their own, the TT back then was tame in comparison, but the nerve of the modern TT racers is unmatched. I imagine Dunlop and Seymour would be fast friends were they to live in the same era.

@slavetospeed 32 минут бұрын

Great vibes! >Murderdrome Cycles< loves it🤩👍🏻

@TamerX4 32 минут бұрын

bros got intros 🔥

@jpsother1183 Сағат бұрын

Oh, cool. first viewer! (edited to add) Nicely done.

@BustedNut- 6 күн бұрын

AMERICA use to be such an AMAZING place with AMAZING people, What the HELL HAPPENED TO US?????

@ShortstackEdits 10 күн бұрын

yippee

@bolo1263 12 күн бұрын

Wish I could find pictures or video or something of my grandfather who used to race for Harley-Davidson. Have an old picture of him with these sweater type shirts and told he raced the boards

@ArchiveMoto 12 күн бұрын

What was his name?

@bolo1263 12 күн бұрын

@@ArchiveMoto Floyd Hunt. I also have a picture of him I could send to an email address. I'm guessing maybe in the '20s? Along with that, he raced open-wheel dirt track at places like Indy and Daytona. Good dude

@ArchiveMoto 11 күн бұрын

Thats awesome, Id love to see a picture of him [email protected], may can turn up some more info

@MOVINGFORWARD-nb4bi 27 күн бұрын

This was very risky at that time

@ArchiveMoto 18 күн бұрын

Very much so

@davidbennett8933 29 күн бұрын

WISH WE COULD RACE LIKE THAT AGAIN MAN ❤SO COOL 100 MILES AN HOUR NO BRAKES THAT TOOK SOME BALLS 😁

@dougiequick1 Ай бұрын

Photo at about 35:03 one of the two bikes appears to have a DISK on the front wheel? WAY before disc brakes and these racers had no brakes so what are we looking at? Edit never mind it is part of the motor on other bike seen through the wheel...I was like WTF?

@ArchiveMoto 29 күн бұрын

These dudes were so tough they’d chuck the discs too if they had them.

@alihasan-lb5gb Ай бұрын

Good work

@ArchiveMoto 29 күн бұрын

Thanks so much

@jacquesduplaa237 Ай бұрын

L'époque change, l'exploit reste, une banalité me direz-vous, exact !!! VROOM RACING, Sud Gironde, France encore Libre et pour L'ETERNITE

@NotgerGast Ай бұрын

Was ich immer wissen wollte!👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

@ArchiveMoto Ай бұрын

It sure is.

@NotgerGast Ай бұрын

Wunderbar!!!👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

@13_13k Ай бұрын

Well made video. A couple of spots where your narration/storyline repeated itself unnecessarily but still very informative. I'm not possitive but I think I produced the first KZbin documentary about the the Los Angeles Motordrome at Playa Del Rey , back in 2013? Very amateur never having made a video before using still photos and printed graphics telling a brief history of the once fastest track in the world. I had no idea that there was a track in Playa Del Rey. Having grown up and living until I was 30 years old in Westchester/Playa Del Rey spending almost everyday at the beach there was never any mention or any old signage or plaque stating that property once was home to the top track in the world as well as home to air shows. So I did some researching, not a lot but some and pieced together a short video that is still on my channel with a small number of views. Lately I've noticed and been watching recently made and uploaded documentaries about the beginning of motorcycle racing in the U.S. and the L.A. Motordrome in Playa Del Rey gets a small mention and not at all the attention it deserves. Even though it was a short lived track due to a fire destroying it only four years after opening it was a very significant venue for motorcycles and automobiles and hosted the world championships before Indianapolis Motorspeedway became the premiere venue only after the fire at Playa Del Rey. Enjoyed your video very much

@Electriceye1984bySam Ай бұрын

Love your channel sir🥂👌🏻

@ArchiveMoto Ай бұрын

Much appreciated

@LucianosMindOverMatter Ай бұрын

I get Very emotional looking back at this history, these guys risked it all on those loud fire breathing bikes, an they where superstars in their day age , brave men in a deadly sport.

@ArchiveMoto Ай бұрын

It was quite an era

@michaelgrabner-fk9pg Ай бұрын

Thank you very much from Germany, One of the best documentarties about vintage and antique motorcycles ever! An uncle rode a late 1929 JD in the races after 1945. the bike is not here anymore, to sorry... Old Harleys and Indians were very common in the years after 1945, the "Daredevils" use them still nowadays in the "Wall of Death". They are everywhere, big show, spectacular!

@13_13k Ай бұрын

Thank You for creating this video and sharing it with the public. Well written and narrated. I actually made a video of the Playa Del Rey Motordrome about 10 or so years ago for KZbin. It is the very first effort of mine trying to create a video using sill photos and producing a slide show with amateur graphics and only music no narration. I made the video because I grew up in Westchester/Playa Del Rey, born in 1965 and have always been curious about the history of that area and how it used to be oil fields and the mansions built for movie stars and directors of films, with Culver City being next door and it being the actual film capital of the world as much or more so than Hollywood. Also with the incredible history of airplane manufacturing and air shows and the automobile racing industries all within the same neighborhoods in about a 4 mile radius. I then discovered that there was a board track at one time off Culver Blvd just as you were in the Ballona Wetlands and entering Playa Del Rey and its hidden gem of a beach town. It is so strange that there is absolutely no indication that there ever was a world class board track that held the world championships of motorcycle racing and car racing as well as air shows and racing that drew thousands of spectators between 1909 and 1912 when it burned down. There also seems to be some kind of need to supress the racing history of Los Angeles and the neighboring cities . There were so many race tracks as this video mentions, somewhere around 22 tracks in the 1910s thru 1930s or '40s then they mostly all disappeared. Again, thank you for providing this history of racing in L.A. My very terrible video is still on my channel here on KZbin. Check it out and hit the like button

@ArchiveMoto Ай бұрын

Thank you Ken for the kind words as well as your contribution to keeping this history alive. I watched your video when I was beginning my interest in the history and thanks to folks like you taking the time to compile information and preserve it here my fire was stoked. From my vantage point, LA has always been the epicenter for the gas and oil set in America, despite manufacturing being elsewhere, you Californians really injected the culture and heritage into motoring. The area is a wealth of history, and I hope to dive in a bit deeper in the future to do my part to help preserve it for those to come. Thanks again and take care.

@ico7909 Ай бұрын

Would love to see this sorta modernized concrete. But with the affordable replicas. ....would be great fun.

@ArchiveMoto Ай бұрын

I agree, the thing I here the most is how cool it would be for folks to see this in person again. My neighbor Billy Lane has his Sons of Speed for the wild ones that like to run the heavies, and some fine folks in Germany get together from time to time on an old velodrome I believe. I actually looked into trying it myself in Atlanta but the velodrome there is just too small, even for lightweight replica bikes. Great fun indeed.

@erskasuurland5518 Ай бұрын

Great loook at early racing in the big three......I never knew the 'wrecking crew' started with HD and not Indian.......another school day has emerged

@davidbennett8933 Ай бұрын

GET IT ON IM READY ❤

@davidbennett8933 2 ай бұрын

BOARD TRACKING WAS THE COOLEST ❤

@josephgiri2398 2 ай бұрын

I was unaware of this sport till I saw a painting by Robert Williams, a friend of Von Dutch and that whole genre of creators.. Look it up, it's an epic depiction of the sport.

@crazyredhare 2 ай бұрын

Don't know if they held night races, that would be a site to behold. Screaming cycles with flame shooting out of barely if any exhaust pipes.

@ArchiveMoto 2 ай бұрын

The night races were lit with arc lights, with exposed wiring on wooden posts which led to one of the nastiest incidents ever on a motordrome at the Ludlow track in 1913. Odin Johnson’s bike hit one during a crash, clipping the wire and igniting his fuel throwing flames onto the crowd. Very grim stuff.

@crazyredhare 2 ай бұрын

@@ArchiveMoto I'm going to research. Thanks.

@skyricq 2 ай бұрын

How did they measure the speed of the bikes?

@ArchiveMoto 2 ай бұрын

Stopwatches and timing devices for the record events

@chrismoody1342 2 ай бұрын

I shudder to think of those primitive tires and nail construction of the track mixed together. Yikes.

@ArchiveMoto 2 ай бұрын

Thankfully the boards were nailed from the sides instead of the tops… but the tires were way worse than we can imagine and the track surface and even rough mess. Tire failure was the leading cause of incidents at the time.

@eddiea1213 2 ай бұрын

Thank you, best film I've seen about Board Tracks

@ArchiveMoto 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for the kind words, happy to hear you liked it.

@donaldgrant9067 2 ай бұрын

Sure beats working in a factory somewhere.

@ArchiveMoto 2 ай бұрын

The money was good, when the promoters paid up of course.

@donaldgrant9067 2 ай бұрын

@@ArchiveMoto Still beats working at a factory. Have you ever actually worked in a sweety factory job?

@charlesross1682 2 ай бұрын

imagine getting dumped at 100 sliding down the track on some highnail heads!

@ArchiveMoto 2 ай бұрын

Thankfully the boards were nailed from the side not the top, but even still, it was a really bad day to dump it on a board track.

@johnpetrakis379 2 ай бұрын

At 10:20 3 oil derricks in the background. Been a long time since I lived and visited but are "donkeys" still pumping there?

@ArchiveMoto 2 ай бұрын

The site is in the heart of Beverly Hills, so no derricks but Im sure a few donkeys can be found ;)

@josephgimenez9192 2 ай бұрын

They should have concrete raceway instead of wood which is dangerously. 🙂

@ArchiveMoto 2 ай бұрын

Given how old concrete is you would think, but the tech then couldn’t make it work at scale or for the same cost as wood. Happy they figured it out by the 1930s though

@asteele911 2 ай бұрын

Beverly Hills looked so much nicer then

@ArchiveMoto Ай бұрын

Definately a faster crowd for sure, and so much racing.

@johnnyfreedom3437 2 ай бұрын

How many of them live to see 30 years old?

@ArchiveMoto 2 ай бұрын

Quite a few, many went on to work in the oil and gas industry, others in automotive. These early 1920s races brought about a changing of the guard as well, with many if the remaining pioneers bowing out of the game

@AgustinCastillo-k4o 2 ай бұрын

Excellent documentary, keep it up!

@ArchiveMoto 2 ай бұрын

Thank you kindly, I appreciate the kind words

@williamzander9708 2 ай бұрын

What’s amazing is how California has changed imagine a 1 mile and 1/4 track dam wood industry that built that design. The work to build that .

@ArchiveMoto Ай бұрын

Its a shame too to think how short such a structure lasted as well. Who knows, I'm sure a lot of those boards are still around out there though, hiuding behind walls and holding up porches.

@lp4619 2 ай бұрын

Amazing, rare video of a time gone by in motorcycle history. Thank you!

@ArchiveMoto 2 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@steelwheels327 2 ай бұрын

I ride a motorcycle and of course never want to think of an accident , but i couldn't imagine wiping out going 100 mph on a wooden track that's been nailed down . I could only guess like a wooden deck at your home the nails have a tendency to pop back up . YIKES you would be torn up from that as well as friction burns

@theobserver9131 2 ай бұрын

I've always wanted a bike like that.... early days. A heavyish bicycle, with a motor.

@theobserver9131 2 ай бұрын

Yeesh....wiping out on wood....splinters and nails.... scary stuff.

@jamesboardman7048 2 ай бұрын

Just the amount of wood blows me away

@ArchiveMoto 2 ай бұрын

It is staggering for sure

@DavidBostock-ti2fv 2 ай бұрын

3:48 "... 275 acres of land." BTW - 1 Square mile = 640 acres 275/640 = 0.4296875 1 mile X 0.43 miles = 275 acres BTW BTW Roadway banking is called superelevation. A bicycle or motorcycle straight up perpendicular to 60 degree banking would be experiencing 2 G of downforce. You standing on sidewalk experience 1 G of downforce. 165 Lbs on sidewalk is 330 Lbs on 60 degree banking at speed matched to bank.

@prusinwj1131 2 ай бұрын

100 mph on a motorcycle with no transmission and no brakes. How cool is that?

@ArchiveMoto 2 ай бұрын

Wild no doubt

@bobsullivan5714 2 ай бұрын

This really is dangerous.........I lost consciousness three times before this was done.

@ArchiveMoto 2 ай бұрын

Oh boy

@williamwintemberg 2 ай бұрын

Perfect!

@rick-kx7gy 2 ай бұрын

and a century later the snowflake soy boys of today would be scared shitless just being in the grandstands . With the noise and dust and exhaust fumes .WTF happened America ?

@kriseckhardt5148 2 ай бұрын

@Swayzeo 2 ай бұрын

😮

@ChrisHogan-x3j 2 ай бұрын

Outstanding documentary, watched it with "Why We Ride" Thank you.

@ArchiveMoto 2 ай бұрын

High praise and great company, thank you kindly

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