Harley Davidson Riders @ www.harleyrides.com.au

Harley Davidson Riders @ www.harleyrides.com.au, a set on Flickr.Our riders, their bikes and their passengers during our Harley Tours and Rid...

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Bonneville Motorcycle Speed Trials.

I have wanted to go to the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah to see the Motorcycle Speed Trials for a while now.Guess what? This year my wish is going to be granted. I will be there this August.To stand on the salt, watch and listen to the bikes trying to break speed records will I am sure, be quite a...

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Embarrassing episode - dropping a motorcycle in public

All motorcyclists have done it at least once.  Some have done it many times.  We have all dropped a motorcycle at some point.You thought the side stand was done when you leaned the bike over.  It kept going.  Or, you simply lost balance.  Yes, we have all done it.Picture courtesy...

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Bike Shed, London

I went to the Bike Shed event in Shoreditch in London today. It was an outing for my red custom bike, Tradewinds. I met a few friends there, so what better way to spend a couple of hours on a Saturday afternoon.Part bike display, part art show, it was a small but busy event that showed off custom...

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Harley Davidson 1920 Eight-Valve Racer

Committed to bike racing in 1914, Harley Davidson soon began to take the sport seriously. Special eight-valve racing twins were introduced in 1916. The cylinders and heads on the eight-valve racers were the work of British engineer Harry Ricardo and featured a hemispherical combustion chamber that had been developed on airplane engines during WW1. The bike shown here is a 1920 version with...

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St Tropez 2013 Motorcycle Tour

In what is becoming an almost annual pilgrimage for me, I went to the HOG (Harley Owners Group) Festival in St Tropez again this year. This year it coincided with the 30th anniversary of HOG in Europe.Ten of us set out from Tunbridge Wells and headed on a chilly UK morning for Dover, where a ferry was...

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