The Harley-Davidson Motor Co. Archive Collection

by Leffingwell, Randy

• ISBN13: 9780760331842
• ISBN10: 0760331847
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-10-03
• Publisher: Motorbooks Intl

Summary

Who knew, one hundred years ago, that the freedom-loving, speed-hungry, cutting-edge motorcycle fanatics who founded Harley-Davidson were making history along with bikes? The Harley-Davidson Collection, showcasing a century of bikes that shaped motorcycle history, brings that history to gleaming life in page after page of motorcycles beyond compare. On the eve of the opening of the historic Harley-Davidson Museum, this book gives motorcycle enthusiasts an opportunity to pore over the bikes in the collection, and to linger over every detail that made Harley-Davidson such an icon of American open-road power and performance. With exquisite, detailed photographs and histories of the hundred motorcycles in Harleyrs"s collection, from serial number one built in 1903 to the latest low-slung Softail, high-revving VRSC, and touring models, the book captures the excitement of the best-known motorcycles in the world. All thatrs"s missing is the patented roar, which readers are invited to supply.

Author Biography

An award-winning writer and photographer, Randy Leffingwell photographed many of the motorcycles that appeared in the The Art of the Motorcycle. He is MBI's best-selling author. His previous MBI titles include Harley-Davidson Myth and Mystique and contributions to Harley-Davidson Century.  Randy lives in Santa Barbara, California.
Darwin Holmstrom has written or co-written many books on motorcycling, including the best-selling Billy Lane Chop Fiction: It's not a Motorcycle, Baby, It's a Chopper, BMW Motorcycles, and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Motorcycles. He contributed essays to The Harley-Davidson Reader and Harley-Davidson Century.