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The designations for Harley-Davidson motorcycles are used on this web site HD4SALE.COM for reference only to help the buyer and seller identify Harley Davidson models that are for sale on HD4SALE.COM:

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The chromed-out cousin to the Rocker, the Rocker C features an industry first with the Trick seat design, which conceals a passenger pillion and struts under the solo seat cushion. To accommodate a riding partner, simply lift off the seat and the pillion folds out to deploy over the Rockertail rear section. Brilliant chrome plating replaces most components finished with Satin Stainless Metallic powdercoat on the Rocker, including the headlamp and triple clamps, the handlebar riser, the fork lowers, and the tank console and speedometer. The finned aluminum oil tank, frame and swingarm are color-matched to the sheetmetal, which features a swirling pinstripe flame from fender to fender. (See separate release for more details on the Rocker C).

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Harley Davidson

Harley-Davidson often abbreviated H-D or Harley, is an American motorcycle manufacturer. Founded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, during the first decade of the 20th century, it was one of two major American motorcycle manufacturers to survive the Great Depression. Harley-Davidson also survived a period of poor quality control and competition from Japanese manufacturers.

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The company sells heavyweight (over 750 cc) motorcycles designed for cruising on the highway. Harley-Davidson motorcycles (popularly known as "Harleys") have a distinctive design and exhaust note. They are especially noted for the tradition of heavy customization that gave rise to the chopper style of motorcycle.[6] Except for the modern VRSC model family, current Harley-Davidson motorcycles reflect the styles of classic Harley designs. Harley-Davidson's attempts to establish itself in the light motorcycle market have met with limited success and have largely been abandoned since the 1978 sale of its Italian Aermacchi subsidiary.
Harley-Davidson sustains a loyal brand community which keeps active through clubs, events, and a museum. Licensing of the Harley-Davidson logo accounts for almost 5% of the company's net revenue.

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BMW Bikes

BMW's motorcycle history began in 1921 when the company commenced manufacturing engines for other companies. Motorcycle manufacturing now operates under the BMW Motorrad brand. BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) introduced the first motorcycle under its name, the R32, in 1923.

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Munich's middle ring-road includes a recently completed tunnel, long enough that your eyes have to readjust to daylight on emerging. There's another visual adjustment, too - the sight of Olympia Park on the left and, on the right, the towering BMW corporate headquarters - the "Vier Zylinder," with the blue-white roundel at the top.

At the base of the tower is the bowl-shaped BMW museum, both constructed around the same time as the 1972 Olympics. The tower and museum are so significant and familiar that they have earned monument status. What's new in recent years is a five-fold expansion of the museum and, just across the street, a gigantic swooping structure called BMW Welt or The World of BMW.

Originally intended as an upscale place where foreigners could take delivery of their BMWs, it now includes shops, restaurants, a conference center and displays the new models in surroundings that extol the BMW brand. It's all about brand, of course, and with the new BMW Welt and expanded museum the company has spared no expense in promoting it.

The entire complex consisting of the Museum, BMW Welt, adjacent manufacturing plant and Vier Zylinder rates a visit as much or more than any other tourist attraction in Munich. If you're a BMW fan, lover of vintage motorcycle and cars, or architecture buff, you've got to see it.

The original museum - the bowl - housed several permanent collections (including autos and motorcycles) over the years but now is used only for special exhibits. Its ascending spiral walkway and platforms currently (and fittingly) contain an exhibition of modern museum architecture from around the world.

Besides photographs and text there are walk-around scale models that show the architect's art at its best. Seeing this exhibition, even if not directly about BMW, was a good warm-up exercise for the main event, a tour of the permanent collection in the adjoining new area of the museum.

Like a photograph, a museum is all about lighting. At one extreme, paintings hang on bare walls, illuminated by overhead incandescent lights. At another extreme, the walls themselves are the light source. Large frosted-glass panels form the walls of the new museum. Behind each panel is an array of computer-controlled light-emitting diodes, 1.2 million of them in all.

Just think about it for a minute. Here's a wall that not only glows in the dark but can be programmed to change its illumination in both time and space. The LEDs are so numerous and so closely spaced that the walls display moving images without the use of projectors.

Entering the new museum from the old, the LED light is eerie at first, but you get used to it and then are fascinated by it. There's another striking contrast - everything in the old museum is round, in the new it's rectangular. In place of a conical spiral, motorcycles are now displayed on a single large wall three stories high, each bike suspended in space behind clear glass with model names in translucent letters.

From the early 1920's to the present, the historical development of BMW production motorcycles is there to behold. With the possible exceptions of the boxer-cruiser and the enclosed scooter nearly all of these models have been successful and profitable, not to mention technically innovative and, to our eyes, beautiful.

Other themes featuring motorcycles are lightweight design and competition. A turbocharged 1938 RS 255 is suspended on four calibrated springs to illustrate the weight-saving design. Several of the modified BMW GS motorcycles that won Paris Dakar rallies are displayed together with cafe racers, a sidecar rig and a streamliner piloted by Ernst Jacob Henne to record-setting speeds in the 1930's. These bikes are not behind glass but on the floor where you can walk up and touch them.

The highlight of the permanent collection has to be BMW's first motorcycle, the R32, produced from 1923 - 1926. The essence of BMW is all there: flat boxer twin, shaft drive, exquisite design and craftsmanship - attributes that carry through to the present.

The R32 is displayed against a large photograph taken in the factory building. This look-back in time evokes admiration for the courageous steps that company undertook then, and continues to take in the present era.

The museum is about BMW the company, not just BMW Motorrad. Airplane and automobile racing engines, Formula 1 cars, roadsters, the M-series and more are represented.

A visitor with limited time will have to make choices and focus on a part of the collection while taking in the rest with quick glances and photographs as reminders of a stunning presentation.

A day spent at the Museum and at BMW Welt will show what good taste and deep pockets can do in displaying a brand and its history, and leave you wishing you had another day to spend there.

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Kawasaki Motorcycles Cool Images Gallery

Kawasaki motorycles are manufactured by the Motorcycle & Engine division of Kawasaki Heavy Industries at plants in Japan, USA, Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand. The motorcycles have been produced since 1954.

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History
Kawasaki logo from 1961-1967 and appears on motorcycles of that period.

Kawasaki Aircraft initially manufactured motorcycles under the Meguro Works name, but later formed Kawasaki Motor Sales. Some motorcycles display an emblem with "Kawasaki Aircraft" on the fuel tank.

During the merger in 1962, Kawasaki engineers were engaged in the development of a four-stroke engine for small cars which ended in 1962 with some of the engineers transferred to the Meguro Works to work on the Meguro K1 and the SG, a single cylinder 250cc OHV. In 1963, Kawasaki and Meguro merged to form Kawasaki Motorcycle Co.,Ltd. Kawasaki motorcycles from 1962 through 1967 used an emblem which can be described as a flag within a wing.

Work continued on the Meguro K1, a copying of the BSA A7 500cc vertical twin. and on the Kawasaki W1. The K2 was exported to the U.S. for a test in response to the expanding American market for 4-stroke motorcycles in which case it was rejected for a lack of power. (Kawasaki Museum). By the mid-1960s, Kawasaki was finally importing a moderate number of motorcycles. The Kawasaki H1 Mach III in 1968 along with several enduro-styled motorcycles to compete with Yamaha, Suzuki and Honda increased sales of Kawasaki units

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The AstroZombie is the combination of old school style with modern performance. Jason Hart, owner and operator of Chopsmiths located in Indianapolis, Indiana, has been able to blend two often-opposing styles into one. In Jason's opinion, many builders today get pigeonholed into building one type of bike. They are either dead-set on the "old school" style, or have tunnel vision for the over-the-top radical custom. Jason feels he has an advantage over many builders because he uses the best of both worlds by blending both styles. He's all about the "anything goes" attitude. He stays up on the trends only to stay as far away from them as he can. Any time Jason finds an old part or something cool that he can turn into a useable part, he wastes no time in doing so.

As for this bike, a long time friend, Mark Walls, told Jason he was tired of seeing bike after bike leave the shop and not being one of the guys grinning and waving goodbye. To solve that, Mark showed up with a parts list that he wanted to see on the next Chopsmith bike - one he would own. The only thing was, Jason didn't like the list - it had too many billet and bolt-on parts. Jason got a frame from RC Components and cut the seat post out and welded a crossbar to the rear. Then told Mark what he had in mind for this bike. That was the last time Mark tried put in his two cents on the build.

Once Jason was turned loose, he got a 93-ci S&S Shovelhead-style motor and Accessories Unlimited trans in the frame and bolted the two together with a Primo beltdrive. Some of the tricks that went into this bike show in parts like the oil bag. Jason runs the chain through the bag having welded Teflon plate to the inside of the chain to keep the chain slop from hitting the bag. He made a set of hand controls from old con-rods, and the rocker boxes were split and drilled.

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