Banked Track Heroes “a novel and sure method of suicide” T-shirt

LARGE and Large only available on the first print run!

Screen Printed shirt released to coincide with the Henry Fournier’s ‘Infernal Machines’ article published in The Classic Motorcycle. The image is of a converted De Dion Bouton motor cycle that was quite a handful according to Charles Jarrott! The phrase on the shirt comes from this period article about Henri Fournier that appeared in The San Fransisco Call September 4, 1898 and many American papers during that month of 1898:

“His performance suggests the grave danger that would accompany trips such as his on a road where similar machines are dashing along. Fournier alone on a level, smooth road, with no one to kill but himself, and no machine to smash but his own, is a sight sufficiently thrilling. Multiply the sight by 10 and imagine that number of Fourniers mounted on flying automobile tricycles, and the spectator cannot help thinking that this would make a novel and sure method of suicide.”