![]() ![]() ![]() It was also not long after WW2, when hundreds of thousands died horribly the antics of a veteran speedman giving 110% to reach his goal probably seemed sensible, when the notion of personal sacrifice in the name of a cause still hung in the air. ![]() It was a time when a man might struggle with the forces of Nature and Time utterly naked, and achieve eternal glory. The situation pictured is outrageous, incredibly dangerous, and impossible to repeat today. It might be the most famous motorcycle photograph ever Rollie Free stretched out over his factory-tuned Vincent Black Shadow at on the Bonneville Salt Flats, clad only in a bathing suit and tennis shoes, squeezing an extra 1mph out of his machine to record 150mph. ![]()
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