All Entries in the "Black Motorcycling History" Category
Glen Nickelberry and Tommy Bolton Make Headlines for Season Opener in Motorcycle Performance Magazine – July 1998
Motorcycle Performance Magazine headline reads: “Wild, Wild West: IDBA begins 22nd season with plenty of surprises” With Tommy’s engine tuning expertise and Glen’s precision riding, Nickelberry topped the qualifying charts at the IDBA season opener Motorcycle Nationals event in Oklahoma City, OK in 1998. Full story text: The Funny Bike field was dominated by motorcycles [...]
2006 AMA Prostar Drag Racing in Memphis
Here is a quick clip of Glen Nickleberry at the 2006 AMA Prostar races in Memphis, TN where he won the Funnybike event. This run was at 6.70 seconds at 211 mph!
Brothers of the Bike
Here is a really cool video about motorcycle brotherhood. Thought some of our readers would enjoy it.
Black Scotty
Browsing through Facebook this past week we came across this awesomely cool image by David Kommel of autoimagery.com. Tommy said he was there when this picture was taken at Irwindale drag strip in southern California and the guy on the bike was known by the name of “Black Scotty”. Tommy thought the picture was from [...]
Glen Nickleberry circa 1984
Tommy ran across this picture of Tombo Racing rider Glen Nickleberry from 1984 racing a Kawasaki GPZ-550. Sweet bike and like always, Glen looks very serious.
Bessie Stringfield
Bessie Stringfield is one of the legends of women motorcyclist. Born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1911, she was brought to Boston as a young child but became an orphan by the time she was 5 years old. “An Irish lady raised me,” she recalled. “I’m not allowed to use her name. She gave me whatever [...]
Tommy Bolton Vintage Clip circa 1986
We found this recently on Youtube, a 1986 video clip by pro racer Ricky Gadson showing his friend Tommy Bolton talking some smack at the drag races!
Tommy Bolton in the Dragbike USA August 1989
Tommy Bolton has a long history of drag racing across the USA. In the summer of 1989 he traveled to Spokane, WA for the Dragbike USA Northwest Cyclebration. Tommy made the finals and had the top time in qualifying, but a bit too much nitrous at the end relegated him to second place for the [...]
Tommy Bolton circa 1984
Tommy was an accomplished drag racer and engine builder in Los Angeles in 1984 at the age of 24 years old. He not only built and rode world-class race bikes, but liked to customize Harley Davidson bikes to fit his style. Here he is with his own “pimped out” Harley. He is still building custom [...]
