Whatever Happened To… Harley-Davidson’s XA?
Words: Aaron Frank Photo” Harley-Davidson Archives As reliable as it was, Harley-Davidson’s WLA (see Icon, page 32) did suffer one major shortcoming: a high-maintenance chain drive. So when in 1940 the...
View ArticleHarley-Davidson Softail Slim | First Look
WORDS: Aaron Frank PHOTO: Harley-Davidson Call this one the Anti-Fat Boy. Harley-Davidson has put its signature Softail on a diet to create the new Softail Slim, a stripped-down bike built to recall an...
View ArticleGET ON THE ROAD WITH HARLEY-DAVIDSON RIDEBOOK
MILWAUKEE (May 23, 2012) Highlighting passion and creativity from independent musicians, filmmakers, writers and photographers, the Harley-Davidson Ridebook is the source for authentic interactive...
View ArticleWhy do “real” motorcyclists hate Harley-Davidsons?
Lost amid all the noise surrounding hard-candy flake paint, mini apes and Harley-Davidson’s 110th anniversary is the disturbing footnote that one of our all-time favorite Motor Company motorcycles, the...
View ArticleWhatever Happened to the Tsunami Harley?
Harley-Davidson motorcycles have been ridden to every corner of the earth, but none has ever made a journey as remarkable as Ikuo Yokoyama’s 2004 Softail Night Train. Yokoyama had his Harley parked in...
View ArticleHighway Pegs – a Date with a Wide Glide
In my last post, I asked a question of myself: Was I uninspired by the V Star 250 because it’s essentially uninspiring or because I dislike cruisers in general? I admitted that I missed horsepower, but...
View ArticleHarley-Davidson To Build Entry-Level V-Twin In India
To a lot of American workers, “outsourcing” is a dirty word. But sometimes companies have to open factories overseas just to be competitive with products built in that market. At least that’s what...
View Article90th Anniversary of Laconia Motorcycle Week
Laconia Harley-Davidson is commemorating the 90th anniversary of Laconia Motorcycle week from June 8th – 16th in Laconia, New Hampshire by launching a campaign to raise $30,000 for the Boys & Girls...
View ArticleH-D’s 5th Annual Women Riders Month
This month, Harley-Davidson is celebrating women riders during the fifth annual Women Riders Month with a nationwide search for top stories of female independence. From May 1 to May 15, 2013, fans are...
View ArticleHometown Harley-Bound
Like so many of us who were raised on sportbikes, I began life as an avowed Harley-hater. Insert your favorite Harley-Davidson stereotype here—too loud, too large, too leaky, too well-liked by people...
View ArticleHomeward Harley-Bound: Day 2
If Ducati’s mechanical DNA makes its motorcycles inherently suited for carving up chicanes at Italian race circuits like Monza or Mugello, and BMW’s big-bore touring bikes seem like they were born for...
View ArticleHometown Harley-Bound: Day 4
Our near-800-mile road trip from Kansas City to Milwaukee to kick off Harley-Davidson’s 110th anniversary ended with a quick and cold, 75-mile blast from Woodstock, Illinois, to the Harley-Davidson...
View ArticleH-D Museum Commemorative 110th Anniversary Rivets Available Now
Burnouts fade, but rivets are forever. If you’re looking for a way to leave a lasting mark on the Harley-Davidson Museum campus, the Motor Company has just the thing: H-D’s Living the Legend rivets...
View ArticleDual-Sport Sportster From Carducci Dual Sport
If you’re fed up with your Harley buddies calling your Sportster a chick bike, here’s your chance to show them how big your knobs are. The SC3 Adventure Sportster conversion from Carducci Dual Sport...
View Article2014 Harley-Davidson FLT Touring Bikes | FIRST RIDE
PHOTOS: Brian J. Nelson, Tom Riles & Harley-Davidson They say: “Built by all of us. For all of us.” We say: “The first crowdsourced motorcycle.” For a 110-year-old company often criticized for...
View ArticleHarley-Davidson 500cc World Bike In Final Stages Of Development
There’s no question Harley-Davidson motorcycles have one foot––sorry, one wheel in the past, what with their slavish devotion to nostalgic styling and the big-inch, bright-chrome profile that made H-Ds...
View ArticleThe Pope’s Holy Harley Hits the Auction Block
We’re not sure how many miles have been logged on the 2013 Harley-Davidson that was presented to Pope Francis last June to mark the MoCo’s 110 years in business, but it’s safe to assume that its...
View ArticleIce Games
Ice racing—perhaps the fringiest of fringe motorcycle sports—could get a big-time boost in popularity following an ice racing video exhibition held in conjunction with ESPN’s X Games Aspen, featuring...
View ArticleFastest Wheelie On Ice
Mike Nightengale photos It was February of 2011 when Ryan Suchanek set his first Guinness World Record for fastest wheelie on ice at 95mph. An impressive feat in itself but what made it even more...
View ArticleWe Don’t Care How They Do It In California!
Photos by Mike Calabro Mama Tried is an indoor invitational motorcycle show held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to showcase the “best, most honest, and most unusual home-built bikes in the Midwest.” Here are...
View ArticleSuperTrapp V-5 Slip-On Exhaust with Mid-Pipe for Harley-Davidson V-Rods
The SuperTrapp Industries V-5 Slip-On with Mid-Pipe is a tunable, disc-based, chrome exhaust with a massive look but weighs only 12 lbs, according to the manufacturer. SuperTrapp claims that the V-5...
View Article2014-1/2 Harley-Davidson Sportster SuperLow 1200T | FIRST LOOK
PHOTOS: Harley-Davidson For the 2014 model year, Harley-Davidson lavished a massive amount of development effort on the so-called Project Rushmore bikes, its popular FL touring rigs. Now it’s the...
View Article2014-1/2 Harley-Davidson Dyna Low Rider | FIRST LOOK
Photos: Harley-Davidson He’s been “on hiatus” for five years now, Harley code for laying low and letting the law get bored with the chase. But now’s the time for a triumphant return. Welcome back, Low...
View ArticleEagles Soar at the 4-Wide Nationals
There were 3 Suzukis, 11 Buells and 2 Screamin’ Eagle/Vance and Hines Harley-Davidsons in the 16-bike elimination field at the NHRA 4-Wide Nationals this past weekend at zMax Dragway in Charlotte, NC,...
View ArticleAgent 1 Casting Call and Chance To Win A Harley Street 750
Harley-Davidson and Marvel Entertainment, LLC, have teamed up once again to defend freedom and tame explosive city streets in – and beyond – the popular film franchise, Marvel’s Captain America: The...
View ArticleHarley-Davidson Street 750 Flat-Track Exhibition at Circuit of the Americas
Harley-Davidson Press Release After scorching the ice at ESPN’s X Games Aspen, the new Harley-Davidson Street 750 will be kicking up some dirt at X Games Austin with a Flat Track exhibition race just...
View ArticleHarley-Davidson Recalls 2014 Touring Models Due To Safety Issue
Press release from Harley-Davidson: Harley-Davidson Motor Company has determined there may be a safety issue with certain ABS-equipped model year 2014 Touring and CVO Touring motorcycles. These...
View ArticleStrong Second-Quarter Gains For Harley-Davidson
For those of you who not only ride Harley-Davidson but are also interested in the business end of the company, dealers worldwide sold 90,218 new Harley-Davidson motorcycles in the second quarter of...
View ArticleHarley-Davidson and Marvel Studios Confirm Project LiveWire Will Appear In...
SAN DIEGO (July 25, 2014) – Today at the San Diego Comic-Con, Harley-Davidson and Marvel Studios will introduce #ProjectLiveWire – Harley-Davidson’s first electric motorcycle – to fans gathered at the...
View Article2015 Harley-Davidson Road Glide | First Look
The wait is over and the Road Glide is back. After a one-year production break the Motor Company will parade from Deadwood to Sturgis today for the official reveal of of the 2015 model. Weeks before...
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