Harley-Davidson

Rough Crafts Takes Harley-Davidson Sportster Forty-Eight on a Bespoke Adventure

by Silvian Secara from https://www.autoevolution.com Are you ready to meet the grooviest Sportster Forty-Eight that’s ever roamed our roads? As of 2010, a gifted aftermarket wizard named Winston Yeh founded Rough Crafts in the Taiwanese capital of Taipei. His enterprise specializes in developing an extensive selection of aftermarket items, as well as creating some of […]

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New Harley-Davidson Stage IV Kits Turn Softails into Meaner Screamin’ Eagles

by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com It was only at the end of August that Harley-Davidson announced the availability of “the biggest, most powerful street-compliant engine Harley-Davidson has ever created,” the crate Screamin’ Eagle 131. But since a complete engine swap might seem a bit extreme for some, here come some upgrade kits for a slightly

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Here’s How They Make the Indian Challenger Bagger to Beat 12 Harley-Davidsons

by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com At the end of this month, the inaugural Drag Specialties King of the Baggers invitational at Laguna Seca Raceway takes place. The event is part of the MotoAmerica Superbike Speedfest, and will see a pack of 12 Harley-Davidson motorcycles competing against each other, and a single Indian Challenger. We’ve already

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St. Louis woman becomes first Black female Harley-Davidson technician

People graduating in 2020 may have a much different graduation experience than those who came before. Still, they’re putting on their graduation masks, caps, and gowns, and moving down their new paths in life. Take Paris McGowan, a brand-new graduate of the Motorcycle Mechanics Institute of Orlando, with a specialization in Harley-Davidson. She’s a Black

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Harley-Davidson Ice-Cool Brother Is a Mean Green FXDR

by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com Few motorcycle builders out there have enough products in their portfolio as to feel comfortable to reference older builds as soon as new ones pop up. Thunderbike is one of them, with the Germans having released into the wild over the past 25 years literally hundreds of custom bikes, all

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Harley-Davidson Mantis Is a Great Slice of American Garage Magic

by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com There’s no actual statistic on how many garages attached to homes are in the States. A report called American Housing Survey claimed that in 2015 about 63 percent of all occupied housing units have a garage or carport, so that would mean a lot. And in a great deal of

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Harley-Davidson Model J Built The Traditional Way Can Still Race

by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com There are a great number of custom bikes being made just for show. They look stunning, feel great, but they are not really meant to be ridden, just admired. That’s not the case with the one here. Back in the months when the health crisis was not all that bad,

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Harley-Davidson: A Piece Of Americana On Sale

from https://seekingalpha.com Summary Harley-Davidson has the power of a strong brand name that resonates well with consumers. While it’s had its fair share of recent challenges, I’m encouraged by the company’s turnaround efforts being led by its new CEO. I expect the company to benefit from an increased need for outdoor recreation, and see the

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Roland Sands’ Harley Davidson 883 Sportster

by Silvian Secara from https://www.autoevolution.com One thing’s for sure; the pros over at Roland Sands Design a no strangers to the two-wheeler realm. Besides crafting some seriously rad custom motorcycles, the California-based company also specializes in designing casual apparel and riding gear, as well as manufacturing aftermarket modules that’ll have your machine looking the part.

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Harley in for a Fight as Indian Names Rider for Challenger King of the Baggers

by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com The biggest news of the week on the Harley-Davidson front is that the company is giving up on the world’s largest motorcycle markets. Milwaukee announced at the end of the week it is leaving India, sending shockwaves in the Harley-loving community there. But there might be an even more interesting

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Harley-Davidson Continues LiveWire Offensive, Joins National Drive Electric Week

by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com Starting Saturday, September 26, and through the next week, America is celebrating the National Drive Electric Week. It’s a little known even at this point, meant to “raise awareness of the many benefits of all-electric and plug-in hybrid cars, trucks, motorcycles,” but as more and more companies are joining the

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Harley-Davidson LiveWire Got Pan America Tweaks for Long Way Up 13k Miles Trip

by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com You might have already caught the first episode of Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman’s new adventure called Long Way Up. The duo decided this time to travel over 13,000 miles (21,000 km) from the city of Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego, all the way to Los Angeles. They did so

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Harley in talks with Hero for distribution deal after exiting India

by Aditya Kalra & Aditi Shah from Reuters and https://www.business-standard.com Harley, known for its heavy touring motorcycles, struggled in India mainly because of high import duties. Harley’s 33 dealerships will likely come under Hero’s management under the new arrangement, said one of the sources. Harley-Davidson Inc is in advanced talks with India’s Hero MotoCorp for

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Harley-Davidson to shut sales and manufacturing operations in India

from https://indianexpress.com and https://www.reuters.com The announcement comes two months after Harley unveiled a strategy to shift focus back to more profitable motorcycles and core markets such as the United States. Harley-Davidson Inc said on Thursday it would discontinue its sales and manufacturing operations in India, effectively abandoning the world’s biggest motorcycle market after a decade

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Harley-Davidson pushes EV Technology with 2020 LiveWire Motorcycle

HARLEY-DAVIDSON PUSHES EV TECHNOLOGY TO THE EDGES OF THE EARTH WITH THE 2020 LIVEWIRE® MOTORCYCLE HOW THE LIVEWIRE MOTORCYCLE TOOK ON THE WORLD MILWAUKEE (September 24, 2020) – The Harley-Davidson LiveWire® model is an exhilarating electric motorcycle that pushes the boundaries of performance, technology and design in the two-wheel world. When an opportunity presented itself

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Oil Transfer Problem on a 2019 Harley-Davidson

Recently I was on a ride from South Carolina to Sturgis (and then on to Colorado). One of the crew, my friend Biji, is one of those guys who has been a motorhead since Moses came down from the mountain with the stone tablets, and he’s studied M8s since they came on the scene. We

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Four Corners Motorcycle Rally Announces ‘Roll Now, Rock Later’ Sweepstakes

Legendary Rock Bands Slipknot, Disturbed, Godsmack, and Five Finger Death Punch Join Four Corners Motorcycle Rally To Help Raise Funds For Worthy Charities Named one of seven best motorcycle rallies in the United States by Motorcyclecruiser.com DURANGO, Colo. (September 22, 2020) – Four Corners Motorcycle Rally is proud to announce that they have teamed up

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Harley-Davidson Announces New Chief Financial Officer

from https://motorcycles.einnews.com /EIN News/ — Milwaukee, Sept. 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Harley-Davidson, Inc. (“Harley-Davidson”) (NYSE:HOG) announced that Gina Goetter, a top finance executive at Tyson Foods, will join the company as Chief Financial Officer, effective September 30. Goetter has more than twenty years of experience driving strong financial and operational results and leading

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New Harley Boom Audio Helmet

As I was preparing for my trip to Sturgis, for the rally, I decided I needed a new helmet. Besides the normal reasons I wanted to upgrade to one that handled rain better. I started researching helmets, and I came across the Harley-Davidson Boom-Audio NO2 Full-Face Helmet. It is made of a fiberglass composite and

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Zero Miles Harley-Davidson VRXSE Destroyer Is a Speed Junkie’s Dream Ride

by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com So, a decade and some change ago, the world’s favorite motorcycle builder, Harley-Davidson, decided to do something crazy: come up with a factory-build dragster that would shred the hell out of the competition on the strip. This is how the VRXSE Destroyer was born, a CVO-handled monster of a two-wheeler

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U.S. judge approves revised EPA Harley-Davidson emissions settlement

by David Shepardson from https://www.reuters.com WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. judge late on Monday approved a revised settlement with Harley-Davidson Inc over excess emissions that dropped a requirement that it spend $3 million to reduce air pollution. In August 2016, the Milwaukee-based motorcycle manufacturer agreed to pay a $12 million civil fine and stop selling

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Harley-Davidson Killer S&S Indian Challenger Begins Testing

by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com In the weekend of October 23, during the MotoAmerica Superbike Speedfest, an incredible battle is about to be fought: 13 Harley-Davidson motorcycles will be on the same field, fighting for the Drag Specialties King of the Baggers title against each other and a single non-Harley bike, this S&S Indian Challenger.

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Harley-Davidson Bara Bore Is a Fat Boy on an Indian Diet

by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com Seeing how many custom garages are out there working their magic on Harley-Davidson motorcycles, one might be tricked into believing this is something anyone can do. After all, Harley itself made it incredibly easy for custom shops to make a living off their products – if anything, the Milwaukee based

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Harley-Davidson LiveWire Claims the Crown of a Barren Kingdom

by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com At the end of last week, drag racing fans were back in business as the Denso Spark Plugs NHRA U.S. Nationals at the Lucas Oil Raceway in Indianapolis took place. A lot of interesting things happened there, including an appearance by the 1,400 hp electric Mustang Dragster and some demonstration

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