Shinya Kimura's Motorcycle Cannonball 2010

Here's one man's experience at one of the most challenging and original motorcycle race ideas around. Coast to Coast on a 1915 Indian! Read more about it on his own blog:

http://shinyakimura.blogspot.com/search/label/motorcycle%20cannonball

Motorcycle Cannonball 2010

Coast to coast, nothing newer than 1915. This is some genuine motorcycle competition. Not for the feint of heart, a race like this sometimes requires ingenuity and inventiveness far beyond the scope of what is generally considered the norm in two wheeled competition. These challenges are the call heard by only the most gifted and brilliant in the field, whose undying dedication to their craft drive them to new heights of genius, and new applications of old technology.

Here is such ingenuity caught on film, a frame jig made from the most cutting edge materials available today (or at least on that day):

1914 frame jig from goose on Vimeo.