847 km/h On a Motorcycle | World's Fastest Motorcycles of All Time
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Back in the day I followed the exploits of Craig Breedlove and his speed record runs in the hot rod magazines.
I visited the Curtiss Museum in up state New York and saw the bike he set the Daytona Beach record.
I believe it's a replica, but looks exactly like the original. That was 15 years ago so I'm not sure about that.
I visited the Curtiss Museum in up state New York and saw the bike he set the Daytona Beach record.
I believe it's a replica, but looks exactly like the original. That was 15 years ago so I'm not sure about that.
You wonder how a bike like that being so low tech could get up to speeds like it did. Once thing it must have been very scary doing it on something like that.
It has an aircraft engine with very short exhaust pipes that had to be ear-bursting at speed.
Curtiss was a mechanical genius and assisted with the first plane to fly in Canada shortly after the Wright brothers flew their plane.
The Curtiss company also built the WWII Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter plane. There is one on static display at the museum painted in the colours of the Flying Tigers.
Curtiss was a mechanical genius and assisted with the first plane to fly in Canada shortly after the Wright brothers flew their plane.
The Curtiss company also built the WWII Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter plane. There is one on static display at the museum painted in the colours of the Flying Tigers.
