This bike was built and driven - at 136mph - in 1907
by Glenn Curtiss. The guy was probably a
lot of fun to have a coupla beers with.
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The Glenn Curtis Museum is near Corning, New York.
ReplyDeleteI have been to Glenn Hammond Curtiss museaum. It is in Hammondsport, NY at the southern tip of Keuka Lake. We hang out on this lake a lot during the summer. GHC did the whole motorcycle thing before he was BIG into early aviation. Fascinating history.
DeleteI wonder how many times, in the middle of a few brews, he said "Ya' know, we ought to try...." ....
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