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Friday, 15 June 2012

Steve McQueen's 1921 Harley Davidson with sidecar

this tail light illustrates that the lighting for both head and tail lights was gas... not gasoline, the type that vehicles used, in this case it's carried in the shiny silver colored canister attached to the handlebars

Thursday, 14 June 2012

one cool old Harley

and it had this cool HD sticker

the back of the jacket says "Look at me" in an effective way. The bike says it in a subtle way

Monday, 4 June 2012

1942 Harley Davidson XA military grade hog... not a v twin.

Sunday, 3 June 2012

nice airbrushed design on this Harley

and nice idea for steel knuckles

Thursday, 17 May 2012

1935 licensing of Harley blueprints, tools, dies, and machinery brought motorcycling to Japan

found on http://www.squidoo.com/neopets_pics

Soichiro Honda started selling bikes in 1948 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soichiro_Honda

Proud new owners of Harleys, photos taken in the 40's or 50's I think, found by Bill who looks for cool old photos in color slides

If anyone knows what years these are, please help me out, email me at jbohjkl@yahoo.com or use the comment function.

If anyone knows of a good Harley visual ID guide to the bikes or the tank transfers / emblems / badges please send me a link or the photo or what ever. It seems like someone online must have posted a poster, page from a parts guide, or someting.

if I make this last one out correctly, it's a 1936-1939 because of the tank transfer (water transfer used to be a sticker type)

the following are the only things I could find quickly, and they don't seem to be big enough to be useful

the above is one page from the 1930-1941 spare parts book for Harley's that I posted a couple years ago http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/02/1930-1941-harley-spare-parts-factory.html

this last poster is available to purchase from All Poster, and so they won;t post a big image online

Sunday, 13 May 2012

Harley washed out to sea by the tsunami that hit Japan last year found on a beach in Canada

A container that was apparently swept away from Miyagi Prefecture by the March 2011 tsunami has been found on a British Columbia island, and inside it contained a Harley-Davidson.

The motorcycle, found in the container by a local resident, bears a license plate showing it registered in Miyagi Prefecture, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. said Monday. The container may be the first debris from the disaster to arrive in Canada, the report added.

The container with the motorcycle washed up on Graham Island on April 18. Peter Mark found it while he was riding his all-terrain vehicle exploring an isolated beach, the report said. The license plate on the rusted Harley-Davidson motorcycle reads Miyagi So 428.

"I gotta say, the first thing that popped into my mind when I was looking at the scene (was) I really wonder what happened to this person. I really hope this person is OK," Mark was quoted as saying.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120502a6.html

And the bike is set to be reunited with its owner Ikuo Yokoyama after he was traced by its number plate.

“This is unmistakably mine. It’s miraculous,” Yokoyama told Nippon TV when shown photos of the motorcycle.

Ikuo lost three members of his family in the March 11, 2011, tsunami, and is now living in temporary housing

The bike was found by Canadian Peter Mark on Graham Island, off British Columbia on April 18.

Peter said the bike was covered in "a lot of corrosion, a lot of rust."

He added, he "couldn’t believe that something like that would make it across the Pacific."

Reports say the motorcycle would be shipped back to Japan, and that the shop that sold it to Yokoyama would help with paperwork and storage.

this 2nd bit of info, and the photo and video are from http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4292586/Japanese-Tsunami-Harley-washes-up-in-Canada.html

Saturday, 12 May 2012

Harley Baja and 250

Saturday, 5 May 2012

you're familiar with the plight of the old American cars in Cuba, but had you heard of the Harley's that are kept running? Here's a great story and photos from Southsiders MC after the link

Here is an exerpt of the future book being photographied and written by Gunther Maier, a German Photographer installed in Santa Fe NM.
Gunther is also looking for an publisher, please contact him at : gunther@newmexico.com
And have a look at his website: http://www.roadhousepictures.net/3/artist.asp?ArtistID=35011&Akey=T568YEK8

Not surprisingly, many Harlistas keep their motorcycles in coveted spots in the living room or on the patio, not the garage. And toddlers began playing on the machines as soon as they can crawl. Some Harlistas ride the same motorcycles their grandfathers owned before the revolution.

Today only a few hundred remain nearly a half century after the island’s last Harley dealership closed. “They’re an endangered species,” said Jose Angel “Pipi” Perez, a Cuban mechanic who restores Harleys. “They are disappearing.” But Cuba’s hogs aren’t gone yet thanks to the remarkable efforts of a group known as Harlistas. Harlistas have kept their engines running despite decades of hardship and economic isolation. Almost all their motorcycles are at least 50 years old.Yet they find a way to keep them alive, scavenging parts from battered old trucks, lawn mowers and even anti-tank guns.

After the United States cut off trade with Cuba in the early 1960s, Harlistas couldn’t get any spare parts, not even tires or brakes. So they were forced to improvise. One old-school mechanic used barbed wire to fix broken chains, another started cutting up cake boxes to make engine gaskets. That led to his nickname, Cake Box, which sticks to this day.

Harlistas have done whatever it takes to keep their motorcycles on the road, even it means using:
* Pistons from Russian trucks.
* Chains stripped from the conveyor belts of a pre-Castro Coca-Cola factory.
* Fiat ambulance horns from Poland.
* Exhaust pipes made from tubes ripped from electrical transformers.
* Tires from VW Beetles.

this is only a small part of the entire post I found on the superb http://southsiders-mc.blogspot.com/2012/01/harlistas-by-gunther-maier.html
Man, I like that blog!

Sunday, 8 April 2012

Costa Rica has a blogger that loves biking and Harleys, Check this out

That is why we don't have effing stairs on the racetrack. Sheesh.

Anyway, there is a lot of posts about the guys buddies, but also a lot on what is happening in Costa Rica and Nicaragua for Harley riders... ya know, in case you are heading down that way.
http://www.latribucr.blogspot.com