The story of the Bathing Suit Bike had started months earlier when Philip Vincent was touring America and meeting his dealers. A photographer leans out of the window of a car tracking the Vincent at the start of the run and captures Rollie in one of the most iconic motorcycle images of all time. ![]() He is on his way to an astonishing 150.313mph two-way average, and about to head into the record books as the man who blitzed the American absolute motorcycle speed record. Rollie Free lays stretched out on a stripped-down Vincent Black Shadow wearing nothing more than a bathing suit, a pudding-bowl helmet and slip-on beach shoes as he streaks across the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. ![]() on the morning of Monday, September 13, 1948.
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