Download or read book Riding the Wall of Death written by Allan Ford and published by Tempus Publishing, Limited. This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wall of Death, a circus sidewhow, has thrilled and entertained audiences in the United Kingdom since the 1920s. This work offers an insight into a part of entertainment folklore.
Download or read book The Wall of Death Carnival Motordromes written by David Gaylin and published by Postcards of America. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wall of Death Carnival Motordromes written by David Gaylin and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1911, the operators of Coney Island's Luna Park premiered a miniature, radically banked racetrack for staged automobile races that seemed to defy gravity. For a fee, patrons would watch from the perimeter of the 85-foot wooden saucer as daredevil drivers raced on the steep angle of the tiny track. The attraction created a sensation and was quickly copied with a show that featured motorcycle riders performing breathtaking stunts. When portable versions were made available, every traveling carnival owner in the United States rushed to have one. Motordromes with perfectly vertical walls soon followed, which permitted riders on their Indian motorcycles to climb, sometimes to a height of 20 feet, with nothing but centrifugal force between them and a trip to the trauma ward. And when full-grown lions were added to pursue riders in the arena, no one could resist buying a ticket! The "Wall of Death," a name these shows received in 1917, remained a staple attraction on American carnival midways until the 1970s.
Download or read book The BSA Bantam Bible written by Peter Henshaw and published by Veloce Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2008-06-15 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BSA Bantam is the most numerous and popular small classic British bike on the market. There are some Bantam history books, but none that include a practical guide to buying secondhand. A complete history of the Bantam, with buying advice and 250 photos.
Download or read book Uncle John s Bathroom Reader Vroom written by Bathroom Readers' Institute and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncle John will get your motor running with this all-new edition dedicated to cars, trucks, trains, buses, motorcycles, mopeds, roller coasters...and of course, the Wienermobile. Uncle John has the need…for speed! (But he always uses his turn signal.) Hop on in and let the Bathroom Readers’ Institute take you on the ultimate road trip. From the first motorized vehicles to the flying cars of tomorrow, you’ll race around the world to learn about some great sets of wheels and the gear heads who make them go. And not just cars, this book has planes, trains, roller coasters, yachts, and massive machines that literally move mountains. So strap on your seatbelts--it’s going to be a fun ride! Read about... * Secrets of Hollywood car chases * The original Cannonball Run * Taking a ride in the hot-tub limo * The drag queen * The history of airships * The Black Beetle: a New York Central train outfitted with jet engines * The yacht that cost more than some countries’ GDP * Around the world in 25 ways * A car without a driver * A look at how a jet engine works * Ghost planes and haunted ships * Pal Newman buys a Beetle * The origin of crash-test dummies And much, much more!
Download or read book Gravity Defying Stunt Spectaculars written by Paul Harrison and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2009 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes various life-threatening stunts, including tight-rope walking, BASE jumping, and human cannonballs.
Download or read book American Motorcyclist written by and published by . This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Motorcyclist magazine, the official journal of the American Motorcyclist Associaton, tells the stories of the people who make motorcycling the sport that it is. It's available monthly to AMA members. Become a part of the largest, most diverse and most enthusiastic group of riders in the country by visiting our website or calling 800-AMA-JOIN.
Download or read book Guy Martin When You Dead You Dead written by Guy Martin and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The maddest 12 months of my life. The journey starts with an oddball race up an American mountain and ends with me checking myself out of hospital with a broken back. Again ...' As Guy’s Latvian grandfather frequently reminded him, ‘When you dead, you dead’. So before it’s all over, Guy Martin is making the most of the time he’s got. In this past year alone, Guy has raced the Isle of Man TT and finished on the podium; bike trekked through India; competed in solo 24-hour bicycles races; flown a stunt plane; broken a go-kart speed record down a French mountain and attempted to break the motorcycle land-speed record at Bonneville Salt Flats. And he’s done all this around his day job as a truck mechanic. But let Guy tell you about it himself: ‘This book starts in a Transit, ends in a Transit, and in between I’ve raced a few pushbikes, raced a few motorbikes and got a fair few stories to tell you.’ Spot on.
Download or read book Adventure Travel written by Ian Usher and published by Wider Vision Publishing. This book was released on with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Burt Munro written by Neill Birss and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2016-06-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously unpublished interviews with Burt Munro, legendary Kiwi motorcycle rider made famous in the movie The World's Fastest Indian. Colourful tales of a life well-lived. Invercargill, at the far southern end of New Zealand. It's the late 1960s and two blokes sit in a modest shed drinking tea. The old bloke is telling stories about his life; the young bloke, a junior reporter, is typing earnestly on his Olympia portable typewriter. Dramatic tales abound – of youthful scrapes, motorcycle races and ingenious repairs, of international travel and friendships and road trips, of high speeds and accidents and meetings with dutiful policemen. Burt Munro became known around the world through the 2005 movie The World's Fastest Indian, but had long been known to motorcycle fans as a colourful character and speed record-holder. Our young journalist, Neill Birss, moved away from Invercargill and the interviews he had typed out were never published. In fact, they were lost during the move and only resurfaced under strange circumstances many decades later. Here they are in this book – the lost interviews with Burt Munro, legendary Kiwi motorcycle rider – his voice as fresh and his stories as vivid as the day he told them to the young reporter.
Download or read book The MotoLady s Book of Women Who Ride written by Alicia Mariah Elfving and published by Motorbooks International. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alicia Mariah Elfving, founder of TheMotoLady.com and the Women’s Motorcycle Show, dishes profiles of more than 70 women past and present who ride and wrench as well as anyone, and in the process have proven every bit as indispensable to maintaining and growing a positive motorcycling culture.
Download or read book Freedom s Rush II More Tales from the Biker and the Beast written by Foster Kinn and published by Hugo House Publishers, Ltd.. This book was released on 2017-06-19 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lady Long Rider written by Bernice Ende and published by Farcountry Press. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -
Download or read book Clem Beckett written by Rob Hargreaves and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clem Beckett was fourteen when he first rode a homemade motorcycle over the cobbled streets of his hometown. It was the start of a lifelong love affair with speed and machines. For Beckett, the motorbike was a means of escape from the uncertain future of Oldham’s stricken industries in the aftermath of the First World War. Beckett’s zest for life, his natural exuberance and determination to be a winner, overcame the disadvantages of a poor home bereft of a father. As a pioneering Dirt Track (speedway) rider he broke records galore, and as a volunteer in the Spanish Civil War he broke down class barriers. Whether as a tearaway teenager, an outspoken sportsman, or a member of the Communist Party, his life was characterized by broadsides of irreverence towards authority. To Beckett, the appeal of revolutionary politics was youthful rejection of ‘old fogey’ values and the dominating role of of tweedy gentility in motorcycle sport. Reviving faded memories and anecdotes of his career as a pioneer speedway rider, this book traces Beckett’s extraordinary rise from blacksmith’s apprentice to superstar, in a new sport which typified the energy of the Roaring Twenties, and was characterised by risk-taking and serial injury. Ever the showman, and banned from the Dirt Track for trying to protect his fellow riders from exploitation, Beckett took to riding the Wall of Death. Observing the rise of fascism on his travels in Europe, Beckett’s increasing involvement with politics led to marriage to the mysterious Lida Henriksen, and inexorably to volunteer service in the British Battalion of the International Brigades in Spain. A narrative spiced with anecdotes and new revelations about Beckett shows why from boyhood to the poignant circumstances of his death in battle, Clem Beckett inspired love and loyalty.
Download or read book American Motorcyclist written by and published by . This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Motorcyclist magazine, the official journal of the American Motorcyclist Associaton, tells the stories of the people who make motorcycling the sport that it is. It's available monthly to AMA members. Become a part of the largest, most diverse and most enthusiastic group of riders in the country by visiting our website or calling 800-AMA-JOIN.
Download or read book Ride the Blazing Rainbow written by Quentin Van Marle and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2006 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thousand mile journey across South Africa..... by bike! The follow-up to the successful Boomerang Road
Download or read book Wall of Death Theatre of Motorcycling written by Olaf Tamm and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
