Legendary Classic Motorcycles Harley Davidson

Classic Motorcycle Harley Davidson

There was another time back in 1935 when all things American, turned Asian.
Harley Davidson licenced everything to Sankyo, this in turn initiated the Japanese to set up a new motor cycle manufacturing industry, after all they had every thing they needed, but thats another story.

1902 Was A Very Good Year.

Back in 1902 a young William Harley designed a one cylinder motor cycle. As it happend one year later he met up with Arthur Davidson and together they created Harley Davidson.
Their first factory was a small wooden shack but importantly it had Harley Davidson sinage on the front.
William and Arthur had no idea they were birthing of one of the greatest motor cycle companies in the world Harley Davidson, a true classic motorcycle company.

Classic Motorcycles Last Crusade Legends

*Classic Motorcycle chase with Screen Legends riding a sidecar in Last Crusade



Hunting around for some worthy items on Classic Motorcycles, I started looking at Harley Davidson. The all time American Classic Motorcycle Harley Davidson features in some great movies, the old black & white sequences of cops chasing the criminals and where Sean Connery and Harrison Ford team up to produce a classic bit of movie history.

The bemused expression on Connery's characters face through out the chase sequence, certainly does rate as one of the all time Classic looks.

A Legend Steve McQueen Crashes

Crashed Classic Motorcycle

Steve McQueen was a great rider and performed most of his stunts,...except one, the one over the barbed wire fence, Steve crashed trying that one.
Steve enlisted his pal, Bud Elkins to do the stunt.
The chase sequence was filmed near the medievil town of Fussen south of Munich in Germany
Interestingly enough, Steve was also the German rider he fells with the wire across the road. Where did he get the wire for that? So in fact Steve was actually chasing himself.