For the last 85 years, Steven Janicki of Roseville has been sailing down the highway of life on two wheels.
At age 10, he began riding motorcycles on his family’s in Bridgewater, N.Y. and as he approaches his 96th birthday, he still enjoys the thrill of the ride.
“Someone gave my brother an Indian Motorcycle,” he said. “One of the two cylinders was shot. He took that bad cylinder off and made it in to a one-cylinder and that’s what we rode around the farm. We got going too fast and too dangerously, so my dad said, ‘Get rid of it.’”
After moving to Detroit in 1939 to pursue a career as a tool and die maker, he competed in tourist trophy races north of Lansing.
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