Licks Cycles: The Vintagent Selects: Ray Tauscher: America’s Forgotten World Champion Motorbike Racer.

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RAY TAUSCHER: AMERICA’S FORGOTTEN WORLD CHAMPION MOTORCYCLE RACER (2020)

Run Time: 16:27
A movie by: Ned & Mike Thanhouser
Key Forged: Richard Moore (Voice Of Ray Tauscher)

FILM MAKERS

Ned is an award profitable documentary filmmaker. He’s additionally an avid member of the native bike group and has produced a number of brief movies in regards to the Alley Sweeper and the Black Canine Twin Sport occasions, in addition to the 2016 function documentary movie The Monkey & Her Driver, which follows America’s solely all ladies sidecar street racing crew for 2015. The Vintagent featured the trailer for this movie again in 2020.

Produced by award profitable Portland filmmaker Ned Thanhouser and his multimedia journalist son Michael, Ray Tauscher (2020) recounts the profession of Portland’s “Yankee” rider and his rise to worldwide fame as one of many world’s high bike riders.

SUMMARY

Raymond F. Tauscher (Tauser in worldwide press), born in Portland in 1905, started using bikes in 1920 impressed by racing on the Gresham Pace Bowl. His aggressive racing profession started in 1923 the place he gained the regional championship. His titleholder standing took him across the globe 5 instances the place in 1931 he gained worldwide championship titles within the UK, Europe and Australia. Ray returned to America in 1934 the place he was a number one proponent of bike racing on the east and west coasts of the USA finally retiring in Portland.

In 2020 Ned Thanhouser and son Michael Thanhouser researched Ray’s racing profession, positioned surviving relations and picked up Ray’s scrapbooks, photograph albums, and racing memorabilia. This 17-minute documentary movie tells the story of Ray’s racing profession, his world-wide travels, and his loves.

This movie premiered on the South Jersey Moto Movie Pageant on December 4, 2020.