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The Chicago Times-Herald race was the first automobile race held in the United States. [1] Sponsored by the Chicago Times-Herald, the race was held in Chicago in 1895 among six motorized vehicles: four cars and two motorcycles. It was won by Frank Duryea 's Motorized Wagon. [1] The race created considerable publicity for the motocycle, which ...
The Times-Herald motocycle race was run yesterday. [ 5 ] It turns out that Herman H. Kohlsaat, owner of the Times-Herald , and Frederick Upham Adams, a local writer with a mechanical engineering interest, ran a public contest for someone to come up with a unique name to replace "horseless carriage" that represented the new motorized transport.
Said to be one of England's oldest outlaw motorcycle clubs. Road Runners: 1978 Silesia, Poland: In addition to Poland, they are located in Germany, Switzerland and the US. There exist more motorcycle clubs called Road Runners MC, but these are unrelated to this particular group. [149]: 177 Road Tramps 1987 Limerick, Ireland [150] [151] [152] [153]
The drama movie takes place in the 1960s and follows the lives of local outcasts in a Chicago motorcycle gang called Outlaws MC that become like family. Their lives suddenly change when the club ...
On November 28, 1895, Frank Duryea won the first motor-car race in the United States of America, the Chicago Times-Herald race. The race course was a 54-mile loop along the lakeshore from Chicago to Evanston, then through multiple Chicago neighborhoods, and then back to the starting point. [5] The race was a harrowing one—it was held during ...
The Outlaws Motorcycle Club, incorporated as the American Outlaws Association or its acronym, A.O.A., is an international outlaw motorcycle club. Founded in McCook, Illinois in 1935, the Outlaws MC is the oldest outlaw biker club in the world. [ 3] With 441 chapters located in 43 countries, and a membership of over 3,000, the club is also the ...
In 1895, a second Duryea (built in 1894), [2] driven by Frank, won the Chicago Times Herald race in Chicago on a snowy Thanksgiving day. He traveled 54 miles (87 km) at an average speed of 7.5 mph (12 km/h), marking the first U.S. auto race in which any entrants finished.
Della Crewe was born in Racine, Wisconsin and moved to Waco, Texas around 1910. [1] There she worked as a manicurist. [2] She was known for being an experienced traveler, and a family member suggested she explore the country by motorcycle. [3] Her motorcycle for the trip was a Harley-Davidson two-speed twin-engine with an attached sidecar.