It doesn’t get much more American than this: Hollywood, Captain America and Harley-Davidson. On March 13, S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division) agents rolled up to the red carpet of the “Tinseltown” premiere of “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” on the backs of H-D bikes.

When the Batman TV series premiered in 1966, Batman and Robin were fighting crime from a 1965 Electra-Glide with attached sidecar.  It was basically a stock machine with customized windscreens added to give it the “right look”.  1965 was the last year of the Panhead engine and the first year that electric starters came stock […] More »

At first glance, I took this to be something built by the Russian military, but it turns out that this Harley-Davidson was exported to Chile as pictured.  It’s also not even for the military but instead for their motorized police brigade.  Must have been rough down in Chile during the 1940’s… The motorcycle was built […] More »

Most of the time when stories about happenings in Florida go national, it’s because the news is just plain crazy or totally creepy. But aside from the prevalence lunatics, the Sunshine State is a great place to have a bike. Perfect weather means you can ride year round, there’s no helmet law, and every year, tons of Harley riders converge on Daytona Beach for Bike Week.

Once the engine cases were finished, I moved on to cleaning and repairing the internal engine parts.  Where possible, I chose to replace worn out parts with new replacements from Eastern Motorcycle Parts.  These included the pistons, crank pin, pinion shaft, sprocket shaft, valves, valves springs and a variety of nuts, shims and washers.  Still, […] More »

In the 1920’s, most service stations delivered automobiles back to their customers’ homes after they were repaired.  This was great for the customer, but meant that the service station had to devote two employees for deliveries, one to drive the repaired automobile and the second to drive an additional automobile to pick up the first. […] More »

Harley’s latest attempt at a single cylinder motorcycle was aptly called the Buell Blast.  Produced from 2000 until 2009, the Blast was lightweight and easy to ride, making it a favorite training motorcycle for MSF and Rider’s Edge courses.  Many modern riders might not realize that the Blast was just another motorcycle in a long […] More »