Daredevil Wall of Death, Russian Style
The magazine’s reporter watched the show and was surprised to see that the motorcycles used by the performers (in the 1990s) were a couple of 1928 Indians – hard tail, leaf-spring fork and all.
It turned out that the bikes, along with the walls themselves, had been brought to Soviet Russia in the 1930s by two terribly misguided Americans who thought it would be a great business idea to bring their show to the working people’s paradise. They were promptly executed as spies, their bikes and all other equipment were confiscated, and the Russians ran the show for at least 55-60 years after that, using the original bikes all that time.
Those Indians were surely well-made machines.
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