"Even Now the Great Escape" Cool Motorcycle Roots/ Vintage Bike America Article
10-25-2006, 02:16 PM
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"Even Now the Great Escape" Cool Motorcycle Roots/ Vintage Bike America Article
A pretty interesting read shared courtesy Integrator 43:
[QUOTE=LA Times]In the 1910s, '20s and '30s, Los Angeles was a hotbed of board-track motorcycle racing. The first Los Angeles Coliseum was a motorcycle racetrack, a high-banked wooden velodrome. It was followed by board tracks in Playa del Rey, and even Beverly Hills. But it was after World War ll that motorcycling as a sport, and a way of life, took off in L.A.
It's as if the place was built for riding. What other city has a twisting, swooping racetrack like Mulholland Drive running along its spine? Endless stretches of desert just an hour from City Hall, where you can ride until you run out of gas, stamina or both? An octopus of canyon roads in Malibu, high above the Pacific, that add up to a street-bike-riding theme park? And a broad-shouldered, big-sky landscape that seems to seduce a rider right into the sea?
[/LA Times]
http://www.latimes.com/classif...story
Maybe if you've ridden the Crest, Mulholland, or other local canyons you've thought the same thing. I know I have.
[QUOTE=LA Times]In the 1910s, '20s and '30s, Los Angeles was a hotbed of board-track motorcycle racing. The first Los Angeles Coliseum was a motorcycle racetrack, a high-banked wooden velodrome. It was followed by board tracks in Playa del Rey, and even Beverly Hills. But it was after World War ll that motorcycling as a sport, and a way of life, took off in L.A.
It's as if the place was built for riding. What other city has a twisting, swooping racetrack like Mulholland Drive running along its spine? Endless stretches of desert just an hour from City Hall, where you can ride until you run out of gas, stamina or both? An octopus of canyon roads in Malibu, high above the Pacific, that add up to a street-bike-riding theme park? And a broad-shouldered, big-sky landscape that seems to seduce a rider right into the sea?
[/LA Times]
http://www.latimes.com/classif...story
Maybe if you've ridden the Crest, Mulholland, or other local canyons you've thought the same thing. I know I have.
10-25-2006, 04:18 PM
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Re: (bad-monkey)
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by bad-monkey »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">
more proof that LA > NOVA?
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Oooh snap. At least I didn't say it.
more proof that LA > NOVA?
:D</TD></TR></TABLE>
Oooh snap. At least I didn't say it.
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