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Avis and Effie Hotchkiss, Salt Lake City, 1915 At Pacific Ocean, 1915. Avis and Effie Hotchkiss, mother and daughter from Brooklyn, New York, were pioneering motorcyclists who completed a 9,000-mile (14,000 km) round trip ride from New York to San Francisco and back on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle-sidecar combination in 1915.
A Florida Harley-Davidson dealer heard the adventure, leading to a feature about it in the St. Petersburg, Florida newspaper, and then in the Atlanta Journal. Bales, planning longer journeys, traded in her Model B for a 1929 flathead engine D-series, Harley-Davidson's first 45 cu in (740 cc) motorcycle.
Harley and the Davidsons (2016) – biographical drama miniseries dramatizing the origins of motorcycle manufacturer Harley-Davidson, and how Arthur Davidson founded the company together with his brothers Walter Davidson, Sr. and William A. Davidson, along with their childhood friend William S. Harley [78]
In 2006 Bob Van Buren, great-nephew of the sisters, and his wife, Rhonda Van Buren, retraced the route taken by Gussie and Addie on a Harley-Davidson Low Rider from New York City to San Francisco. In line with the sisters' desire to influence the military, the trip was a fundraiser for the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund and was launched from the ...
Harley-Davidson, Inc. (H-D, or simply Harley) is an American motorcycle manufacturer headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1903, it is one of two major American motorcycle manufacturers to survive the Great Depression along with its historical rival, Indian Motorcycles . [ 3 ]
Gloria Tramontin Struck (born July 7, 1925) is an American motorcyclist who was one of the early members of the Motor Maids women's motorcycle club, which she joined in 1946, at age 21. [2] She is both a Sturgis Hall of Fame and Motorcycle Hall of Fame inductee. Struck was born in a room behind her parents' Clifton, New Jersey motorcycle shop ...
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First production Harley-Davidson with a belt final drive and a belt primary drive. Super Glide II FXR 82 cu in (1,340 cc) 1982–1985 Sport Glide FXRT 82 cu in (1,340 cc) 1983–1993 Super glide II FXRS 82 cu in (1,340 cc) [4] 1982–1988 Low Glide 82 cu in (1,340 cc) 1984–1985 Street Bob FXDB 96.7 cu in (1,584 cc) (2007–2013),