Harley Davidson Sportster Land Speed Record & Rayborn - 1970 - motorcycle photo

Description

A superb and rare photo. Shown on the photo is the
Harley-Davidson
factory prepared,
Sportster
powered streamliner with racing ace
Cal Rayborn
, just about to set a new Land Speed Record on the famous
Bonneville Salt Flats
in
Utah
!
On the photo we see Rayborn taking his place in the Harley-Davidson
Sportster
-based streamliner.  Few moments later he would rocket the HD streamliner to a new American and International Speed record of an incredible speed of
265.49 mph
(
427.27 km/h
)!!!
The H-D streamliner weighed more than
700 pounds
and was almost
10 feet
long. Rayborn showed his bravery by stuffing himself back into the machine after suffering several high-speed crashes in the streamliner before he finally set the record.
In 1970 Harley-Davidson had difficulties in developing the new XR 750 racing machine. However, the XR750 did not dominate Harley ‘s sporting activities completely, as the Land Speed Record attempt of HD and Rayborn clearly showed!
Cal Rayborn was one of Harley’s most famous racers. He won
11 AM
A nationals during his relatively short seven-year professional racing career. Ten of those victories came on road racing courses, making him easily the top American road racer of his era. Rayborn’s fame spread to
Europe
in 1972 when he rode a Harley-Davidson XR750 in the popular Transatlantic Match Races and won three of the six races to tie as top scorer in the series. Rayborn’s performance proved once and for all that Americans could road race. He was born on
February 20, 1940
, and raised in
San Diego
, where he started riding motorcycles when he was just 8 years old. In 1968 he wrote history during the famous Daytona 200 race. During that epic event, Rayborn led most of the way. At one point he lost the front end of the factory Harley and slid so far that it ripped a hole in the knee of his leathers. Rayborn recovered and lapped the entire field en route to victory. He became the first rider to average over
100 mph
during the 200-mile race! That win established Rayborn as
America
’s premier road racer. In 1969 he again won the Daytona 200, followed by the Land Speed World Record title in 1970 (see photo!)!
This is a very nice and very rare
non period
photo that reflects a wonderful era of Harley ‘s motorcycle history in a wonderful way. This is your rare chance to own this photo, therefore it is printed in a nice large format of ca. 7.8" x 9.5" (ca.
20 cm
x
9,45 in
). It makes it perfectly suitable for framing!
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