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23 August 2010
Bill Harley
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William A. Harley
Created page with "Son of the original Bill Harley who succeeded his father as chief engineer on his death in 1943. However, he started with a lowly job in the shipping department, at his fath..."
Hardtail
Created page with "The term for any motorcycle without rear suspension, though it is usually applied to custom Harleys, hence the current Harley-Davidson 'Softail' range, which conceals the..."
Fred Hamm
Created page with "Held a number of endurance records for Harley-Davidson before the Second World War. Hamm was a motorcycle police officer from Pasadena who broke records in his spare time. He..."
Harley-Davidson WLA45
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Goulding
Created page with "Supplied sidecars, such as the Litecar to Harley-Davidson for the Forty-Five, which was offered from 1929. Although Harley-Davidson bought sidecars from several sour..."
Chopper
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Chopper
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Gene Church
Created page with "Dominated the Battle of the Twins series in the mid-1980s, winning in 1984, '85 and '86 on the Harley XR 1000-powered Lucifer's Hammer. A forme..."
Battle of the Twins
Created page with "Contemporary race series for twin-cylinder machines, dominated by Ducati in Europe and Harley-Davidson in North America. Category:Motorcycle racing"
Lucifer's Hammer
Created page with "Famous Harley-powered race bike, which won the Battle of the Twins series three years running, 1984-86. Category:Harley-Davidson motorcycles"
Harley-Davidson Liberty Editions
Created page with "Special-edition Harley-Davidsons built in 1985 to honor the Statue of Liberty’s centenary. For each of the 1,750 Liberty Edition bikes sold (there were three versions). H..."
William Bagnall
Created page with "President of the AMA from 1965, also editor and publisher of Motorcyclist. Category:Motorcycle people"
Aurora Automatic Machine
Created page with "Builder of the Thor motorcycle, the company also supplied rear hubs and brakes to Harley-Davidson from 1910-13. William Ottaway was chief engineer with Aurora, but was so..."
Frederick Barr
Created page with "Joined Harley-Davidson's engineering department in 1908, under George Nordberg, and was a key figure there for over 20 years. Also helped Nordberg and [[William Davidson]..."
Dave Barr
Created page with "Rode his 1972 Harley Super Glide 83,000 miles (1133572km) around the world in the early 133572km. Barr had served in the US Marines and had lost both his ..."
Blue Knights
Created page with "A motorcycle club whose members all belong or have belonged to the police, fire or emergency services. Category:Motorcycle clubs"
Richard Child
Created page with "Alfred Child's son, he worked closely with his father importing Harley-Davidsons into Japan. His 400-mile (645-km) test ride of one of the first [[Harley-Davidson E|61 E ..."
Alfred Child
Created page with "Alfred Child was a super salesman who did much to spearhead Harley-Davidson's exports in the 1920s and '30s. Born in England, he worked his passage across the Atlantic at the..."
Freddy Dixon
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Freddy Dixon
Created page with "English rider and tuner of Harley¬-Davidsons in the 1920s, he scored many race wins, both solo and sidecar-mounted, notably at Brooklands. He also modified an early eigh..."
Easy Rider
Created page with "The film in which Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper ride choppers across America under big blue skies, 'looking for adventure' as the Steppenwolf soundtrack goes, also featured one o..."
Harley-Davidson Captain America
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Harley-Davidson Easy Rider
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Excelsior-Henderson
Created page with "An American-made competitor to the Harley in the late 1990s. Harley-Davidson's turnaround in the 1980s and later success attracted some entrepreneurs into investing in a hom..."
Excelsior
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The Enthusiast
Created page with "Harley's own magazine, launched in 1916 and sent out to all Harley-Davidson dealers and registered owners. Although not always a regular publication, and it could hardly be c..."
Skip Fordyce
Created page with "A popular and successful pioneer Harley-Davidson dealer in Riverside. California. He caused a scandal after the Second World War by taking on Triumph machines as well, an..."
Harley Owners Group
Created page with "A company-sponsored group of Harley-Davidson riders, it is the first such group in the motorcycle industry and probably the most successful. It was formed in 1983 as a means ..."
Theodore Miller
Created page with "Assistant sales manager to Arthur Davidson in the early 1920s, and in charge of domestic sales. Category:Harley-Davidson people"
George Nordberg
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George Nordberg
Created page with "Production assistant in the early days under William Davidson, Nordberg joined Harley-Davidson in 1909. Category:Harley-Davidson people"
Scott Parker
Created page with "An official Harley-Davidson racer in the 1980s/90s and the youngest rider ever to earn an AMA expert license. He was team¬mate to Jay Springsteen in the official racing ..."
Pinehurst Meeting
Created page with "This was a seminal week in Harley history. Vaughn Beals, the man brought in by AMF to turn Harley-Davidson around, decided in April 1976 to take all Harley-Davids..."
Remy
Created page with "Remy electrical equipment was introduced on the 6lci (1000cc) J-model in 1916, in the form of battery and lights. In 1919, the factory dropped these in favo..."
Harry Ricardo
Created page with "An English cylinder-head specialist, whose pioneering work on four-valve combustion chambers inspired generations of engineers. At Joe Petrali's suggestion, he was broug..."
Carroll Resweber
Created page with "An official factory rider in the late 1950s who won the US National Championship four times, in 1958, '59, '60 and '61. Incredibly, he did all this while working a full-time..."
Joe Leonard
Created page with "An independent rider in the 1950s, he was not backed by the factory, but nevertheless won the US National Championship on a KRTT. In fact, while the ..."
Leading Link Forks
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Leading Link Forks
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Leading link
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Leading Link Forks
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mLeading Link Forks
Created page with "An important early innovation from Harley-Davidson, designed by Bill Harley in 1907. Until then, motorcycle pioneers had mainly used unsprung cycle-type forks, which..."
Laconia Bike Week
Created page with "First started in 1923, the event traditionally takes place during the beginning of June. It was based on racing (like Daytona), which had actually been taki..."
Materials As Needed
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Materials As Needed
Created page with "System by which only materials immediately needed for production were held in the factory. Harley-Davidson introduced this in the early 1980s in order to cut inventories and cos..."
Motorcycles As Needed
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Motorcycles As Needed
Created page with "Dealers protesting against the Bonus Bucks program in 1983 used this as a parody of Harley's 'Materials As Needed' scheme. They would only order b..."
Harley-Davidson Bonus Bucks
Created page with "A dealer incentive scheme of the 1980s, except that the Harley-Davidson dealers didn't see it that way. Their profit margins on the big twins were cut by 5 per cent, but they..."