The Roaring ’20s | A Century of Motorcycling - Motorcyclist Magazine
Board tracker...hard rubber tires, basketball court track, 90mph, no brakes. God bless America.
This is the birth of sportbikes set against the backdrop of history, from an era so far gone we can't even imagine it now. The backdrop-
America’s collective wealth more than doubled in a decade when change was the only constant. Mass communication and cheap transportation let us listen to the same music, buy the same goods and adopt a relatively common culture. Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs yet Mickey Mouse became the most well-known Yankee in the world. On the flipside, Jazz Age hypocrisy outlawed booze with the 18th Amendment and supported the rise of organized crime and, eventually, stock-car racing. As the decade ended, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini cast a menacing shadow over Europe as America inched toward crushing financial disaster.
1920 ACE I-4....
The Roaring Twenties (A century of motorcycling.) 
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