13 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT HARLEY-DAVIDSON

The classic motorcycle design , which is still used today, was invented by the Werner brothers - literary men who published the magazine Around the World in the 1880s.

In 1891, they moved to France, where they made a living repairing cameras and typewriters. Fascinated by motorcycle technology, the brothers created their own version of the motorcycle in 1901 - with a motor located in the lower corner of a metal frame and electric ignition. Former publishers called the brainchild "modestly" - "New Werner." The motorcycle turned out to be more stable while driving than the models known at that time, which turned out to be the key to good sales. Subsequently, the design became the basis for all other motorcycles.

Arthur Davidson and William Harley, who lived in America, in Milwaukee, assembled the first Harley-Davidson in an old barn, borrowing the idea of ​​the Werners almost faster than anyone else .

The founding fathers of the brand at the entrance to the HD office.

In 1909, the newly minted company made a breakthrough by introducing a motorcycle with an engine that had two cylinders spaced 45 degrees relative to each other. The volume of the motor was 812 cm 3 , and its power reached 7 liters,  receiving the name V-Twin. This modified motor continues to live on in today's HD models.

Today, the descendants of Harley-Davidson founders William Harley, who died in 1943, and Arthur Davidson, who died in a car accident in 1950, continue to hold key positions in the company and actively participate in model development. By the way, custom harley davidson for sale australia is very popular.

Under the red line

The name of the company came from Arthur's aunt, Jane Davidson, who wrote Harley-Davidson Motor Company on the doors of a small barn where friends assembled motorcycles, underlining the words in red. Subsequently, the barn was moved to the HD plant in Milwaukee. Fans of the brand from all over the world came there as a relic, until in the mid-1970s, the shed was mistakenly demolished by a contractor hired to restore order on the territory of the plant. Now the Harley-Davidson Museum can only boast a reconstruction of the beginning of the world biker movement.

241,500 euros

For this amount, the Harley-Davidson Dyna Super Glide bike owned by Pope Francis was sold at Bonhams in England in February 2014 (his biker jacket was sold for 57,500 euros). On the motorcycle tank was the inscription: Francesco . It was presented to the pontiff a year earlier, during the celebration of the 110th anniversary of the American brand.

For 6 years, the Harley-Davidson Motor Company tried to patent the sound of its engines as a trademark. Since 1994, the company has championed this idea but gave up and did not become the second after Zippo, which registered the sound as a trademark. But in India, motorcycle models are not sold very successfully due to low income and difficult production.