A Speedy two Cylinders 1909 Curtiss V-Twin

摘要

Before Designing airplanes in the early 20th century, Glenn Hammond Curtiss of Hammond-sport, New York, made motorcycles. Though Curtiss had only completed eighth grade, he demonstrated a natural genius for mechanics. On January 24, 1907, he became famous as "the fastest man alive" by riding his monstrous eight-cylinder beast to a still incredible speed of 136.4 miles per hour on a Florida beach. The day before, he had set a speed record for two-cylinder machines at almost 78 miles per hour. To commemorate the records' centennial, the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum in Hammondsport restored a two-cylinder 1909 machine and ran it on the same beach.