Thursday, September 26, 2013

Today in motorcycle history, September 26, 1971

 

 


  On a warm, cloudy, Sunday afternoon in Hutchinson, Kansas, Evel Knievel jumps 10 Kenworth trucks at the Kansas State Fair.  The jump goes off without a hitch, the landing is one of the smoothest he'll have in 1971.  For the second day in a row (Evel also performed the same feat on Saturday the 25th),  the crowd goes home with stomachs full of fried dough, cotton candy and beer.  And the vision of a mad, airborne super-hero in red,white and blue.
                         

Today in motorcycle history, September 26, 1941





File:An Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) motorcycle despatch rider in Northern Ireland, 26 September 1941. H14291.jpg
 
 An Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) motorcycle dispatch rider in Northern Ireland, September 26, 1941.
 
From the Imperial War Museum collection.