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Chasteen Tops Oakland Class “C” Meet

The Oakland Speedway lay etched, crystal clear, under a November sun that gave glorious promise of warmth and failed to deliver as per... more
Hornell Hillclimb: Where Fast Competition Determined the 1935 National Champions

The National Hillclimb Champion of 1935 is Joe Petrali! Winning a second place in the 45 Class A, and first place in the 45 Expert, at the... more
The Motorcyclist Pictorial | September 1935

View photographs from this September 1935 issue of Motorcyclist Magazine. more
Streamlining as an Ideal

With our streamlined tanks and fenders the most of us are willing to concede that our present-day American motorcycles are about the last... more
A Review of the Isle o’ Man T.T | After-Lights

This year’s Tourist Trophy meeting in the Isle of Man was the most sensational on record. So sensational that only now, writing a week... more
Pan-American Trails part 3

The intrepid motorcycle adventurer has taken a loop route through Mexico which brought him back to the Coast near the United States line.... more
Twilight Racing: Night Stands

A discussion of leading night speedway stars is hardly necessary over and beyond the figures given on their riding averages. In the... more
Traveling With a Troupe

We sailed for Yokohama on the Rio de Janeiro Maru, leaving from Wilmington, California. Eleven people comprised our troupe and we were... more
Two Thousand Pounds of Junk

Mr. Thad Belton swung his shiny, lumbering roadster out of the yard and threaded his way through the morning traffic downtown. Visibility... more
Motorcycle Photography | Shooting the Fast Ones

In a previous article in The Motorcyclist (see the July issue), I pointed out the marvelous opportunities which lay in store for the... more
Jim Young Wins 200-Mile Class C Speedway Title

“Shades of Old Ascot, Tacoma and Dodge City.” Such might have been the thoughts of any old-timer as he gazed over the field of riders and... more
Pan-American Trails Part 2

Last month Jose Porta told of starting his long solo tour to Central America. When we left him he was hard put to find shelter during a... more
Indian Announces New Four

Up and down the reaches of the grapevine communication system of motorcycling the question has gone. “When is Indian coming out with their... more
Pan American Trails | Part 1

It was on the eighth day of May, nineteen hundred and thirty that a lone motorcycle rider brought his machine to a stop in front of the... more
Racing With the Old Timers

Mine was not an office boy to president sort of racing career. Contrary to the experience of many racing men, I had not spent a lot of time... more