Originally Posted By 4/4sportsfun
You must have been spitting blood Peter about your brother.

I fondly imagine that I saw one of these riding the Wall of Death at the Motorcycle show at Exeter about 10 years ago, is that possible or would they have been too valuable then.

What sort of variations were there , all I know is they come from the land of the iron horse.

Yes my mother told me she had asked him to get rid of it because she was worried about it falling on the younger children. I realised years later that she took the blame to stop me killing him. When I said I wanted it back and who had he sold it to he told me a whole lot of lies so I never really found out where it went.

When I was given it it was attached to a side box type of side car. I believe it was an Indian Chief. It was fitted with acetylene lamps, apparently an option instead of the electric lamps that the owner considered to be unreliable. The rotten little b@st@rd actually managed to steal and sell the lamps before I even picked it up from the shed where it had been stored then blamed someone else. First he sold the lamps then he sold the whole bike. I don't talk to him all that much 50 years after the event.

Indian was a very innovative company and quite succesful in racing. I believe it was Indian that invented the twist grip.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_(motorcycle)

Peter

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