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Motorcycle land speed record

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The motorcycle land speed record is the fastest speed achieved by a motorcycle on land. It is standardized as the speed over a course of fixed length, averaged over two runs in opposite directions. First run in 1907, an officially-sanctioned FIM record was not set until 1920. There was controversy over the 1930 record, when OEC claimed to be fastest, on the basis of a publicity photo taken before... Read enhanced Wikipedia article
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    Motorcycle land speed record

    The motorcycle land speed record is the fastest speed achieved by a motorcycle on land. It is standardized as the speed over a course of fixed length, averaged over two runs in opposite directions.
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    Land speed record

    Motorcycle land speed record
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    Speed record

    Motorcycle land speed record
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    Land speed

    Motorcycle land speed record
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    Glenn Curtiss

    In 1903 he set a motorcycle land speed record at 64 mph (103 km/h) for one mile (1.6 km).
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    Victoria (motorcycle)

    In 1925 Victoria built Germany's first forced induction engine, and in 1926 a 496cc Victoria achieved a motorcycle Land speed record of 165 Km/h (102.5 MPH).
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    Rollie Free

    Rolland "Rollie" Free (born 1900 in Illinois, died 1984 in California) was a motorcycle racer best known for breaking the American motorcycle land speed record in 1948 on the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah.
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    Piero Taruffi

    He won the 1932 500cc European Championship on a Norton and in 1937 set the motorcycle land speed record at 279.503 km/h (173.68 mph).
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    Cross-dressing in film and television

    The World's Fastest Indian (2005) - Based on the true story of Burt Munro's attempt to break the motorcycle land speed record.
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    Roland Free

    At one time, Free held the American motorcycle land speed record.

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