Steve McQueen's 1921 Harley Davidson with sidecar
Showing posts with label Harley Davidson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Harley Davidson. Show all posts
Friday, 15 June 2012
Thursday, 14 June 2012
this past Sunday was an event at the Lyon Air Museum, Bikers and Bombers, and 2 sidecar equipped bikes that were owned by Steve McQueen were there, one is a Von Dutch restored Panther, also, 2 tank tread bikes were there. Photo galleries soon, here's a preview
Monday, 4 June 2012
Sunday, 3 June 2012
Thursday, 17 May 2012
1935 licensing of Harley blueprints, tools, dies, and machinery brought motorcycling to Japan
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 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.
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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
Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Harley V-Twin powered sprint car of Lee Cook
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.
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
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
Friday, 11 May 2012
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