It’s January 24th, and on a beach in Florida and a daring young man has just blasted across the sand at 136.3 miles per hour run on a V8-powered motorcycle of his own design. He built the engine, he built the bike, and he rode the frightening looking machine across Ormond Beach himself.
The man is Glenn Hammond Curtiss, and the year is 1907. Curtiss
has just piloted his monstrous 4000cc V8 into the record books and become the (unofficial)
absolute world land-speed record holder for the next four years.
