Motorcycle race at Trondhjems ice rink

July 1923

This event is not as well covered with pictures as other events down south in Norway. But there is a very cool detail in the pic where some of the race heroes line up. To the far right in the picture, in his nice suit and tie, is our then and for many years to come race ace no. 1, Ernst Vaumund out of Christiania (Oslo). When you look close at the picture one notice he has a steel shoe on his left foot, just as todays speedway riders use. This is the very first evidence of steel shoe on track in Norway.

Bjarne Wist no 6 from Trondheim, would in a radio interview in the seventies claim he was the first to race with a steel shoe in Norway, this was supposedly in the late twenties. Well, that was a mild a exaggeration, this is 1923 and by no doubt we see Ernst Vaumund using one.