1908 Indian Motorcycle 

What's interesting to noticed is that the spokes disappear when it's spinning up fast. Pretty cool.

Great to see these old motorcycles. Really reminds you that they started off as bicycles with engines on it. Really cool.

Probably the best machine ever built for at least three decades compared to all gas powered forms of transportation extremely nice..

These are truly badass!

That thing is so simple, but yet quite functional. Would be fairly easy to build one and be a low cost item. Imagine Indian making bikes like this one! This is something to see...a piece of modern marvel in action from that time. Probably more than half the country was still using trains and horses to get around!

What a wonderful machine, and it runs so well! Fantastic to see, many thanks for posting.

wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow!!!! THIS MOTORCYCLE IS OVER 100 YEARS OLD AND STILL RUNS!!!!!!!!!!!

A museum piece. Glad to see it doing what it should be doing.

lol, very cool - love the slash cut drag pipes!

103 years old now, damn!

totally awesome ! I would love to build a sweet replica of that

board track raceing was a very deadly sport in it's day...

that is an amazing piece of riding history! i could listen to that thing run for hours...awesome

Imagine the looks you get riding this down the road.

Fantastic!!

Very Cool, sound's like it will GO!

my buddy Vince the REAL king of all American pickers!

Nice. Dramatic,,, good luck

OMG! I'm in love! Beautiful! Excelent! Amazing! Fabolous!What more can I say? Now.... send it to me :)

sounds great man

going 50mph on that must seem so fast... great to see its still running after all these years

Thumbs up for BRAVE 1900s racers :/ !

1 person doesn't appreciate a great piece of motorcycle history

Bike belongs to Vince Martinico. The event website says that Jeff Decker designed the trophies. It was really a great show. Sorry they skipped '09. I hope it comes back in '10.

I love this so!!!

One day ill find one. Wish I could of seen the old board track race.

thats awesome love vintaage stuff imagine riding this back then imagine how cool it was back then cause its still cool now :)

Perfect! !5 stars!

I can't believe that at that time there were 600cc engines ...

wow thats so nice, and still running. how much is that thing worth now?

Burt Munro special..is history!

Too bad they don't have any old board tracks around anymore! I would have given my left nut to see this bike racing and the wild men who had the balls to race these bad ass bikes! They say the boardtrack racers were considered "idols" kinda like the sports heros of today, and many people flocked to the boardtrack races in hopes of seeing carnage and were not disapointed. I understand they outlawed boardtrack racing because there were too many deaths involved with the sport. nice bike!

running rich too.. nice

It's a V-twin. I believe the size is 1,000 cc (61 ci).

102 years... OMG

Sounds cool!

AMAZING WORK ... BRAVO

nice sound 4 a 1908 :)

Felicitaciones

Nice twin.

@quakermaas great video, please more

that is sweeeeeeeet

man i could listen to that thing run for minutes look up goerge kavassilas

That's as fast as a Vino 120 😊

Awesome..

Now that's a V twin...

@quakermaas Left hand throttle. I think the right side is ignition advance.

So where did you find this beautiful machine?

you`ll never have ANY of the modern pos bikes last a century

Wow!

Is the seat position an after thought, looks like tank takes presidence ? Does it have an oil pump or is gravity fed ? JOHNB. - N.Y.C.

how fast was it originally capable of going

Is that an old brooks bicycle saddle I see?

Two questions: Two or four stroke, and what is the top speed???

They always start them up but never ride them.

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@steinthms llol ignition advance ?! what should that mean changing the timing while the engine is running :D

@SourdoughMusk I believe the size is 1,000 cc (61 ci).

Left hand throttle or is the video mirrored ?

2 cyl ( two stroke ? ) What's the top speed? I'm thinking it be twice as fast as a ( 30mph) moped. Does it have a high and low range? Or is that a bar that engages the chain ?

the first motorcycles ever where technically mopeds

@ironworkersteve57703 I suspect that many a nut was busted in the sport of board track racing.. After a while's use, the boards become slippery, and many of the bikes didnt have brakes!

I don't know, look at my engine, that's a 1000cc v twin, that looks like maybe 500, maybe even a 250! i had 250 twins that size.

@steinthms no way that that's 1000cc, i mean really?

that bike is one hundered & four years old

original?

@michelinman8592 Four stroke. Prolly not as fast as100 mph, but maybe.

wow its a v twin

Shut that damn thing off! Yer scaring all the horses.

two cilinder wau 102years yeahhh

does it have any gears

1908

Good Day, You don't see many bikes that age still operable,eh! I'm surprised it only smokes a wee bit. ....something tells me, should time allow,....would today's 2010 bikes last that long,..or would our computerized ignition, & plastics become too ozone depleted to be usable. Meaning fade away from the lack of durability to sunlight & time or natural corrosion.

i have one of those

@woodshuck It's true.

Yeah, Ride that to school.

Noway thats a 1000cc unless your adding both sizes of each piston but still wouldnt even come near 1000

first moped?

@Darklordkime Single-speed, I believe.

snap crackle crackle

wow

so basically its a moped if you have to pedal to start :/

Ever come off the stand

Beautiful! Wipe it down with some #2 diesel fuel once a week or so, and DON"T RESTORE IT!!!!

The slowest bike i ever had only went 27 miles an hour. Many impatient people got angered by that bike. And i though i would have to defend myself a few times from those scum people who think they own the world and the roads they drive on. The truth is, the governments own us all, so no reason to get mad because your driving to slow. ;)

No idea.

Price?

@steinthms damn :P

What do you expect! LOL! It's an Indian!

@ighforever Yep.. Wonder why really, to save weight or to show off their balls?

@michelinman8592 I'm pretty sure all Indian motorcycles were 4-strokes... Those pieces of shite from the 1970s don't count.