The Harley Davidson company has been going for more than 100 years. It was started in 1903 by childhood friends William Harley and Arthur Davidson in their home town of Milwaukee where you will find the company HQ and the museum.
They started small in a shed with a pedal cycle frame, founded their first facoty and by 1906 were making a modest 50 bikes a year. During WWI they supplied 15,000 bikes to the military and by 1920 they were the biggest bike manufacturer in the world, selling in more than sixty countries.
I saw a New Year Harley parade riding through Orchard Road in Singapore
Now they have factories in Missouri, USA, Australia, Brazil and India.
Authorized tour operators are in Austria, Brazil, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zeland and the UK and USA.
For example, Twistedtrailz.com in the USA, and in the UK five companies brettours.co.uk, orange-andblack.co.uk,lindtours.co.uk, saddletramptravel.com, tour1.co.uk .
In the UK there's a Harley-Davidson's owners' club. I discovered that when I saw the account of the local Harley-Davidson riders had turned out for the funeral of singing star Alvin Stardust, who was English, at his adopted Welsh coastal city of Swansea.
Harley-Davidson Riders Club of Great Britain
You will also find local suppliers of souvenirs and gifts. For example, in Singapore locals and expats can find clothes and buy mugs:
http://www.harleysingapore.com/get-the-harley-look/motorclothes-and-merchandise
www.harley-davidson.com
h-d.com/authorizedrentals
www.h-dmuseum.com/
The museum is in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Tours include California, USA; Cape to Cape South Africa and many more.
You can sit astride a Harley for a photo at the World Travel Market in Excel London as I did.
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