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The TT Mountain Course, that wild 37-and-three-quarter-mile ride, was introduced way back in 1911, and guess what? It's still giving motorcycle racers a crazy adventure today! But can you imagine tackling those early tracks with no more than four horse power? Not quite the two hundred horses that power Conor around the island today.
So, 1911 is when things get really interesting for the TT, its new and fearsome eight-mile climb demanding some extra technical wizardry. Enter Oscar Hedstrom, the head designer at Indian. Oscar was on a mission to conquer the new Mountain Course and show off his bikes, so he handpicked a team of mechanics and hopped on a steamer from New York along with his ground-breaking v-twin motorcycles - each boasting a revolutionary two-speed gearbox and chain drive.
But Indian’s real hero of the day was arguably a young man from London, England. Oliver Godfrey didn't just win the gruelling five-lap Senior TT, but he also led home a clean sweep of the podium for the American marque, denting British pride in the process.
Oliver never won another TT and lost his life during the First World War. Like many mechanically minded people, he joined the Royal Flying Corps - quite fitting for a guy who tore up the tracks as a speedy and fearless motorcycle racer. Oliver was shot down in 1916 over the Somme by the notorious Jagdgeschwader 1 squadron led by Baron von Richthofen, aka the ‘Red Baron’.
