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Freddie Ludlow – His Life on Two Wheels
BY DON EMDE
Just
Released!
T
he seeds of the idea for this book were planted over twenty years ago when author
Don Emde was entrusted with the care and ownership of a scrapbook of Freddie
Ludlow, an early day motorcycle pioneer. With nearly 100 pages of the scrapbook
photos organized chronologically with Ludlow's own handwritten captions, what was
obvious was that he was a man of adventure and competitive spirit, who also answered the
call to serve his country.
Freddie Ludlow's motorcycling life began as a delivery boy for Western Union on the streets
of downtown Los Angeles around 1910. Local competitions followed until he enlisted in the
Army and put his motorcycling experiences as a rider and mechanic to use in Europe during
World War I. Upon his return home, Ludlow became one of the top motorcycle racers in the
United States, rising to the level of National Champion in 1921. A few years later, his sense of
service again saw him finding ways to put motorcycles to good use when he became a motor
patrol officer in Pasadena, California, a job that he would have for the next thirty years.
His new "day job" didn't mean, though, that Freddie was done raising the bar in the
motorcycle sport when it came to speed and performance. Through the 1920s and '30s, he
set numerous speed records on the hard packed sand at Daytona Beach, Florida; on the
Bonneville Salt Flats, even along a stretch of public road near San Bernardino, California.
Freddie Ludlow died in 1983, but his amazing motorcycling life lives on in Freddie Ludlow.
His Life on Two Wheels. It features not only his scrapbook pages but also many pages written
by Don Emde filled with back stories and additional rare and historic photographs of Ludlow
and many other legendary racers who were his competitors.
• 176 pages – Hardbound – 10 x 12 inches (same dimensions as e Speed Kings)
• Highly illustrated – 400+ photos and related images
• Printed in sepia-tone throughout with retouched black & white photos from
Freddie Ludlow's scrapbook pages, plus some limited color images.
• ISBN number: 978-0-9972720-2-4
• Suggested Retail Price: $45 (plus California sales tax if applicable)
Order both Speed Kings and Freddie Ludlow – His Life on Two Wheels and get a
FREE COPY of The Daytona 200 (382-page hardbound edition) along with a signed
print of Don Emde and his father at Daytona in 1972!
$45 + $75 = $120 for
the two books (Freddie
Ludlow + Speed Kings).
Boxed and shipped via
USPS Priority Mail: $20*
$140 total
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International
Come celebrate Don Emde's
50th anniversary of his
Daytona 200 win in 1972!
March 12, 2022 at Carson Center, CA
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