Thursday, August 3, 2023

It was basically a bicycle with a V8 engine strapped to it...


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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  1. The Glenn Curtis Museum is near Corning, New York.

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    1. I 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.

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  2. I wonder how many times, in the middle of a few brews, he said "Ya' know, we ought to try...." ....

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