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Flying Floyd. The Motorcycling Life of Floyd Emde, written by Don Emde, tells the story of his father, Floyd Emde’s legendary years in motorcycle racing, multiple dealerships and building race bikes for his three sons and a daughter. Those familiar with the “Harley and Indian Wars” of the 1940s will enjoy the week-to-week coverage back in Floyd’s racing years including his personal written notes after every race, plus his wife Florence’s hand-written results in many souvenir programs.
While they traveled coast to coast to many major AMA Nationals in the post-war years such as Daytona, Laconia and Springfield, Floyd maintained an exhausting racing schedule in Southern California, sometimes competing 2-3 times a week at local tracks like Box Springs, Carrell Speedway, Pomona and Lincoln Park, where monthly daytime TT races were held, as well as Class A Speedway races on Friday nights.
Flying Floyd. The Motorcycling Life of Floyd Emde is a highly illustrated, 420-page hardbound book featuring over 1,000 photos taken by noted Southern California racing photographers Bob Magill, Shorty Campbell, Dave Friedman and others, as well as many from Floyd’s and Florence’s personal scrapbooks. Floyd’s story is also the story of Southern California’s other top stars that he competed against. Read all about “Iron Man” Ed Kretz, Chuck Basney, Tex Luse, Jimmy Phillips, Ted Evans, Ernie Roccio, Ray Tanner, Win Young and many others. At the Nationals, he competed against all the top riders on the AMA circuit, including Jimmy Chann, Leo Anthony, Dick Klamfoth, Paul Albrecht, Bobby Hill, and Bill Tuman, to name a few.
