Speedway information

[cfh]

I worked up a web page on Speedway mini bikes. Any comments appreciated. thanks!
http://pinrepair.com/minibikes/speedwayinfo.htm

 

[pomfish]

Read the whole page.
Great work!

Question on the first picture, this pic was taken when John Morrow was still at Rupp being that they are posing with a go cart?
And who is the second Rupp employee that started Speedway?

Always liked the Speedway's but would only buy one if it was complete as the parts are too rare/expensive to do a reasonable priced resto.
Again thanks for the hard work, love this info.

Later,
Keith

 

[cfh]

Wish I had the other name and more information on speedway. It’s really hard to find anything. I’ve been scouring the Internet looking for any information I can and there’s just not much out there. That’s kind of why I started the page. I was hoping some people here might be able to shed a little more light on things. We’ll just have to see. It’s such a popular brand so it seems. But there’s only a handful of people that seem to know much of anything about them as far as their history

 

[pomfish]

Your info is the most I have ever seen collected in one place.
The guy from Ohio with the "Super Bitch" probably would have the most info, seems the most rabid collector anyway.

 

[400nitro]

I think tom earhart of rupp had something to do with morrow and speedway? there was also another person from rupp that designed the blue max sleds, ahead of their time.

 

[Ding Ding]

Nice job on putting that together.

Mr. Bill Kraft had a Speedway mini bike webpage, but it went away a couple years ago. Too bad because it had lots of information and pictures. He was/is a member here (ATKRIDER) but sold off his Speedway collection and hasn't been on here since 2016.

 

[massacre]

Very informative, thanks! Learned a lot about the Speedway bikes from your site

 

[John G.]

Thank you for putting that all together, good stuff!

 

[cfh]

I did a wayback machine on speedwayminibikes.com and there really wasn't much archived. there was a forum there, but it appears none of it got saved in wayback. not much history of speedway in the normal webpage. so that lead is empty... damn...

 

[RobertC]

Hey CFH, thanks for the history. I had no idea of the relationship of Speedway, with former Rupp employees. Pretty cool stuff !