In the summer of 1911, the race team for the Indian Motorcycle Manufacturing Company (originally called the Hendee Manufacturing Company) took the first three places in the Isle of Man Tourist Trophy.
Over in Highland Lake, Ed Bosch drove his very own Indian Motorcycle that had been built around 1911. The Hendee Company (George Hendee and Carl Hedstrom) had produced the first American motorcycle in 1901.
—indianmotorcycle.com.
More to the story: Ed put his motorcycle in storage when he entered the army in WW I. The motorcycle was stolen at some point before he came home.
