Don Emde


Don Emde is an American motorcycle racer, author and publisher. In 1972 he won the Daytona 200 motorcycle race. In 1999, he was inducted to the American Motorcyclist Association's Motorcycle Hall of Fame, and in 2011 was inducted to the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum & Hall of Fame.

Racing moments

Emde's 1972 victory at Daytona as a privateer was the first win at that race for a Yamaha, the smallest displacement racebike to take first place, the first victory for any two-stroke, and the first father-son win at Daytona.
Emde retired from racing in 1973 and became an author and magazine publisher.
In May, 2014, Emde organized a recreation of Erwin "Cannonball" Baker's 1914 transcontinental motorcycle ride, on its 100th anniversary.