Industrial Revolution Wall Art, Orient Tandem Motorcycle, Triptych METAL Sign

Industial Revolution Wall Art Motorcycle Metal Triptych

One of a kind Industrial Revolution Wall Art Orient Tandem Motorcycle Metal Triptych is made from heavy gauge American steel (No Flimsy Tin Here). Select from three different sizes: Large, Medium, Small. Also, available with an optional rustic wood frame (See Options Below). Designs are baked into a powder coating for a durable finish. Unlike other tin signs, canvas prints, and posters, our metal signs will not bend, fold, dent, or wrinkle over time. You can take a hammer to our signs. Our signs are hand made just like in the days. Rest assured these metal signs are made to last.

Great wall decor for motorcycle enthusiast, offices, living rooms, industrial lofts, garages, man caves, government buildings, restaurants, bars and more. Nautical Interior Design.

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SIZE OPTIONS: *SIZES ARE ALL APPROXIMATE
(The wood frame option adds a 1-2" border to the total size of each panel. )

• Large - Measures a whopping 72" x 36". Each metal panel measures 24" x 36". With wood frame 84" x 40".

• Medium - Measures 48" x 24". Each Panel measures 16" x 24". With wood frame 60" x 28".

• Small - Measures 36" x 18". Each metal panel measures 12" x 18". With wood frame. 48" x 22".

FRAME OPTIONS:

• Wood Frame - Each framed panel comes mounted on reclaimed barn wood with rustic screws for an authentic look and feel. Also Comes with a small saw tooth metal hanger on the rear, ready to hang.
The wood frame adds a 2" border to the total size of each panel.

• No Frame - Metal signs with no frame have each corner drilled and riveted for easy hanging.

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Georgia’s first machine, as well as what could be considered America’s first motorcycle was a motorized tandem pacing machine like this one pictured, a utilitarian experiment for use in the day’s most beloved sport, bicycle racing.

Inspired by French cycling star Henri Fournier’s motorized pacing machine which he brought to the United States in 1897, companies like the Waltham Manufacturing Company, makers of the popular Orient line of bicycles and tandem pacers began acquiring French made DeDion button engines to experiment with their own motor-pacer designs. Paced bicycle races had grown in popularity leading up to 1900, and with the introduction and application of new gasoline powered combustion engines the pacing machines had quickly become a sensation at the track. It was a rapidly rising cycling star from Atlanta named Bobby Walthour who, in October of 1899 sent for one of the first DeDion powered, Orient tandem pacing machines for his upcoming races at the Coliseum Velodrome in Atlanta’s Piedmont Park.

It was a machine similar to this Aster-powered Orient photographed in 1901, with its 7 sprockets, 4 chains, and bright red enamel paint which fired up for the first time in the South, giving Georgian’s their first taste of what would become a revolution in both transportation, socialization, industry, and sport. The next day so many people flooded the track to see this new machine that exhibition runs had to be staged on the dirt horse track outside. Within a couple of years the first viable civilian motorcycles were available and began filling city streets and county roads across the country. For enthusiasts here in Georgia though, It was that cold evening in the fall of 1899 which began Georgia’s obsession with motorcycles, initiating a culture that flourishes still to this day.