History Of Harley Davidson Bike
Have you ever seen the mammoth Harley Davidson that sticks out of the front of the Hard Rock Café? Those who have been to Vegas, I am sure they might have seen. Many have seen it in thousands of movies probably. Believe it or not, in true Harley Davidson style, this motorcycle would actually be operational if there was a Paul Bunyan alive to ride it.
If you know the history of the creation of Harley-Davidson motorcycles, you would understand why its creators, who believed anything was possible, would not have it any other way. Harley Davidson was created in 1901 by two 21 year old Milwaukee boys, when they found it was too much work to ride a pedal powered bike up and down the hills of Milwaukee.
It took one failed effort and involved a lot of work, however, the creators William S. Harley and Arthur Davidson with the help of Davidson’s older brother and an engineer down the street created the first fully motored bicycle. This was the first Harley to ever grace the street of America. Its frame was thin like all the bicycles at that time and the engine weighed 28 pounds. It could carry the boys up the hills and so an American staple was born.
Since then the bike has only soared in popularity and been a standard of the hard rock life and a symbol of manhood. Not only has the owning a Harley been a class distinction among motorcyclists, but now the logo itself has spread like wildfire as Harley Davidson makes about 5% of its annual revenue from the sale of items inscribed with the logo. There simply is no other motorcycle that can compete with the Harley, on the road as well as in people’s hearts.