Written by Martin Hodgson
They were the original kings of the race track, but you won’t ever find a replica of one hanging out at your local cafe bike meet. However over recent years with TV shows like Harley and the Davidsons and Sons of Speed, along with the input of America’s best builders like Billy Lane and Rick Petko, the board tracker is back with a vengeance. But what do you do when you live in a country where finding a ?20s Indian in a barn is as likely as finding the fabled pot of gold at the end of the rainbow" You do what Spain?s Kacerwagen Cycles have done and build your own from scratch; it?s a bitchin? boardie called ‘The Zeppelina V72’.

Giant’s of the industry, Harley Davidson and Indian, made their names by winning on Sunday and selling on Monday in the highly lucrative sport of board track racing at the start of the 20th century. Crowds of nearly 100,000 people would pack into the biggest tracks and the prize money was out of this world. But two world wars, huge track maintenance costs and horrific deaths ? both on the track and in the stands ? put an end to the sport.
But as the custom scene has looked back through the ages for inspiration it was only natural that eventually some would land back where it all began. For Gsus Valencia from Mazagón, Andalusia, on the Atlantic Coast of Spain, everything about those early Indian race bikes got his blood pumping. His workshop, Kacerwagen, turns out a range of tasty customs...