I Love Harley Davidson Bikes

ADVERTISEMENTS ADVERTISEMENTS Each year, Harley-Davidson hands out its Bar and Shield awards in an effort to recognize the very best of the best among its 700 dealer U.S.-based network. The motorcycle builder judges each dealership in 12 different categories, including sales, customer service, and employee service. And while Harley remains somewhat secretive about these rankings, […]

Believe it or not, this sleek, low custom started life as a 1968 Harley-Davidson Shovelhead. Clearly, life had other plans for this classic. Despite being 50 years old, the 1968 Shovelhead was in completely original condition when SMC got their hands on it. Furthermore, it was running just fine. They just don’t make them like […]

Mecum Auctions has new lots of vintage Harley bikes that can turn any Bruce Banner into the Hulk. These classic rides are rare pieces of Harley-Davidson history. They’re also very green. But these Yoda-colored rides are some of the best preserved we’ve seen; cool bikes, they are. So we found a few of our favorites, […]

Hill climb events are almost as old as motorcycling itself. It’s man and machine battling nature and physics. This year’s Winter X Games extreme sports competition took place on Jan. 28 in Aspen, Colorado, and for the first time ever, it included a new sport: the snow hill climb. Yes, you read that right: Snow […]

This year, Harley is celebrating its 115th anniversary. Which is obviously an amazing achievement for any company, let alone a motorcycle manufacturer. And as you already know, a whole lot of things have changed over that time frame. Today’s bikes are infinitely faster, more efficient, and more comfortable (and convenient) to ride compared to those […]

A bike based on a 883 Iron Sportster with a strong Café Racer vibe to make the owner feel like a kid at Christmas, but without losing any of today’s Harley modernity and of course keeping the project street legal. Full story: The Modern Sportster Café Racer

Finned covers belong to the beginning of the custom culture and since then have always remained popular with bikers. This new complete line of covers and accents delivers a clean, old school aesthetic to areas of the engine, outer primary and transmission, among others. Learn more: The Modern Sportster Café Racer

In an interview with Reuters in his office at the company’s headquarter in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Harley CEO Matt Levatich said: – the the company is not exploring a merger with a rival or a private equity buyout, as some investors have speculated. Discover more: H-D CEO To Investors

The Sportster Brewtown Throwdown kicks off 2/22.

It’s usual to think of engineers—people who design the basic parts of our material civilization—as nerds. Nerds are people with pocket protectors, people more interested in metal alloys than in Superbowl point spreads. It’s odd, then, to think of nerds as a source of beauty, but they are. Machine parts are some of the most […]