*The Purebred*, the history of the Rare Indian Big Base 8-Valve Board Track Racing Motorcycle, the fastest motorcycle in America’s most infamous and sensational sports, motorcycle *Board Track Racing*.
What began with gentlemenly wagers at local horse tracks or sprints up the steepest road in town, scaled qucikly to national events, sponsored professionals, factory teams, and grudge mathces running at breakneck speeds around purpose-built venues. Jack Prince’s spectacular wooden stadiums, known as motordromes, were conceived and constructed nationwide amid the public’s increasing demend for more. Motorcycle companies quickly began adapting their road models to be competitive, or in some instances, developed factory works racers specifically for the new board track stadiums. It was in that moment that motorcycles changed, evolving into purebred racers capable of blistering levels of speed for the era. Among these early specials was perhaps the most coveted mythical racing motorcycles of all time… the Indian Big Base 8-Valve.
Indian’s Big Base 8-valve was the very concept of speed, raw and uncompromising, distilled by one of the most talented engineering pioneers specifically for the task at being unbeatable yet refined in its simplicity as only Oscar Hedstrom could accomplish. And for that, the Big Base remains a legendary machine, equal parts brutality and elegance, the embodiment of the thrilling age of the board track motordrome, … and in a word, a purebred.
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Written, Narrated, Edited, and Produced by Chris Price, Archive Moto.
Music:
Nagorno Mist – Vusal Zeinalov
Exactly Who – Raymond Grouse
The Inventor – David Celeste
Rendezvous in D minor – Trevor Kowalski
I Want You To Stay – Victor Lundberg
Elm – Martin Landh
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