Seen any good Harleys lately?

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We did! In the Harley Davidson Museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, there now exists a huge museum exhibiting hundreds of beautiful and/or unique Harleys in what was part of the original Harley factory.

The museum is comprised of multiple buildings in a park-like campus and is currently celebrating its more than 100-year history of Harley-Davidson motorcycles. It contains more than 450 HD motorcycles and thousands of artifacts from the HD Motor Company’s 110-year history. These are my favorites below:

This wall contains examples of all of the different types of HD engines.
At one time, hill-climbing (like very steep hills) was a sport, and these are an assortment of those types of bikes.
Track cycling on a velodrome which is made of a steeply banked oval track was another sport that Harley made specific models for.
This motorcycle contains the signatures of several thousand HD employees to celebrate the company’s 100th anniversary.
And of course there’s a show-off in every crowd.

The museum spent considerable time explaining the remarkable story of Harley-Davidson nearly going under, agreeing to being bought by AMF and the consequent deterioration of their quality over the next nine years. The best part of that story is how a group of HD executives bought back HD from AMF and how they climbed to be the huge success they currently are in the motorcyle business.

They were also offering free demos on several different types of Harley’s in the driveway in front of the museum, but we passed. This time.

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