[BigWilly]

This might be a repost but I thought it was cool. Still cant get my head around how many 2"x 4" boards it takes to build one of these tracks.

http://www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-films/screening-room/beverly-hills-board-track-racing-1921

 

[S.G]

It sure did, great film

 

[GRHebard]

nice find! thanks for sharing it

 

[need louvers ?]

Damn, I can never get enough of the board track stuff! "Burns escapes the hospital swathed in bandages and covered with splinters to start the fifteen mile race" Just flat crazy!!!

 

[truegrit]

We just watched a couple of hours on youtube a couple nights ago, I love it! Bakersfield had a mile dirt track and I was reading they had 25,000 spectators coming out and watching. They were doing over 100 mph laps on those old bikes! The banks in the turns were crazy!

 

[Cali Kingpin]

Very cool...thanks

 

[Basket Case]

love it. They had balls of steel.

 

[Puttete]

love it. They had balls of steel.

Balls of steel - Yes
Any brains at all - No

Very cool post, thanx....

// Patric

 

[Soulfur]

http://player.vimeo.com/video/26459539?byline=0&portrait=0&color=f2f4f5

I recut a bunch of that footage a year or so ago and set it to some Hot Five...
So much fun to watch...

 

[Soulfur]

I remember reading somewhere Hollywood was finally going to do board track racing in all its glory...anything on this?

 

[DEZEL INGEN]

over the top. thank you

 

[BigWilly]

I was riding some roads last night thinking of those things screaming around the boards...must have been madness during the last few laps hoping nothing came apart.

 

[texas rattler]

awesome!