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Motorcycle Ice Racing In Michigan – The Coolest Motorcycle Video You’ll See
23-01-2012
Tagged Under : Motorcycle, Motorcycle Video
Muskegon Motorcycle Club Ice Races in Grant, Michigan.
January 22, 2012.
The Muskegon Motorcycle Club is one of the oldest continuously operating clubs in the United States, and every year they sponsor a hillclimb event which has gained national renown. The first event, held at Mt. Garfield way back in 1921, drew only a handful of participants and spectators, but by 1951, thanks to local legend Dan Raymond (Muskegon Motorcycle Club founder and president) the event went over the top in more ways than one.
At that event Pete Uebelacker, a vet of National Championship Hill Climbs at Mt. Garfield, took the National Championship. Riding out of Rochester, N.Y., the 39-year-old Uebelacker edged out the field to take the championship trophy.
The hillclimb event ultimately grew to the point where crowds reached an estimated 30,000 spectators during the Golden Era of hillclimbing back in the 1950s and early 1960s but was nearly derailed when outlaw biker gangs from Chicago and Milwaukee stormed the area back in 1966.