Was he competitive? When it wasn’t running, he was working to fix it. He curates a private mini-museum in Calgary, and the rest are displayed at his Phoenix winter home.
Pedersen was 11 when he bought a Whizzer-powered bicycle for $2. The pair wanted to purchase Pedersen’s antique Harley parts, but he was determined to keep them in Calgary and construct a board-track racer.Motorcycles routinely reached speeds of 100 mph, and the public ate up the action.
When it was running, Pedersen was a blur.
Sidecar Replica is Polish ️ manufacturer of hand-made sidecars for Harleys. He then rode Francis-Barnett and James motorcycles, and says, “If it had a motor, I was interested. Harley-Davidson Sidecar Replica is on Facebook. 3 seat from Saddles by Heilman completes the look. Usually, there was no throttle; the carburetor was set wide open and if a rider had to slow down, a handlebar mounted magneto cutout was used to ground the sparkplugs to give compression braking. “We played all the time down at Walt Healy’s shop, where we’d paint bikes and work on stuff. Gas is carried in the right, oil in the left. But when he acquired a 1916 Harley-Davidson Model J V-twin engine from a local collector, he envisioned constructing a machine in homage to the era.Aboard Jawa, Triumph and Indian machines Pedersen also competed in hill-climb, scrambles, trials and flat track events. A reproduction Mesinger Cavalry No. Pedal cranks are clamped in situ, and would not have been used in starting a board-track racer; they are simply foot pegs.Pedersen works with a team of fabricators and painters, and they refer to themselves as the Pedersen Performance Team. Sie ist eher als Dekoration gedacht, kann aber auch gefahren werden. The hot liquid covered both rider and wooden track.On highly banked oval tracks constructed of planks, riders wearing minimal protective gear – often a wool jersey and jodhpurs, perhaps a leather helmet and puttees over lace-up shoes — piloted primitive motorcycles.In his late teens Pedersen was pals with Terry Healy (son of the legendary Calgary motorcycle retailer Walt Healy) and several others.
Short exhaust pipes were also manufactured in-house.Motorcycles remain a passion and Pedersen, an oilfield supply entrepreneur, now has more than 48. If one rider went down, the rest of the field usually couldn’t avoid the resulting melee of limbs and metal.
Coercing the original Harley-Davidson and reproduction pieces together in Pedersen’s Calgary shop was fabricator/welder Al Kerrison and machinist Wilson Pankrat.
Components were first mocked up to ensure fitment, including the reproduction Antique Motorcycle Works rivet-style tank with its rocker arm pockets. I did run with a lot of successful guys, though.”Dale Ross prepped the metal and sprayed the paint, while Bruce Ander applied lettering and striping. Facebook gives people the … Nachbildung einer Harley-Davidson Boardtrack aus den 1920er Jahren (siehe Foto des Originalmodells), angetrieben von einem 68 cm³ Zweitaktmotor, mechanisch in Ordnung. If one rider went down, the rest of the field usually couldn’t avoid the resulting melee of limbs and metal.Motorcycles routinely reached speeds of 100 mph, and the public ate up the action.
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A rear fender of unknown origin was found in Pedersen’s stash of parts and cut and shaped to fit. Cars, too, raced the planks, but by the late 1920s motordromes had mostly disappeared.Calgary speed enthusiast Larry Pedersen, 68, was born too late to participate in board-track racing.