Since their humble beginnings in a basement back in ’58, S&S Cycle has been producing high performance parts that have proved themselves time and again, both on the street and at the racetrack.  Nowadays their parts lineup not only includes hundreds of performance parts, but also complete engines covering every OHV Harley-Davidson big twin made since [...] More »

While Harley-Davidson was cranking out tens of thousands of motorcycles to meet the demands of the military, the US Army was faced with the task of training service men to ride the fleet of new machines.  Training facilities sprang up all around the country to teach everything from basic riding to motorcycle maintenance.  Intense six week [...] More »

In the late 1910’s, a new type of motorcycle racing evolved in Australia known as Speedway Racing and it quickly spread across the ocean to the US and England. Speedway racing was held on oval tracks covered with loosely packed dirt or cinders (the rock, not ashes) which allowed the racers to slide their motorcycles through [...] More »

You often hear people say that their Grandfather’s or their Great Grandfather’s generation was tougher than their own and the story of Sergeant Maurice Rainey definitely adds weight to that argument.  Rainey was a mounted officer for the Park Police in Washington DC and is pictured above on his trusty J-series Harley-Davidson with attached sidecar.  During [...] More »

Sometimes the vehicles that were built using Harley-Davidson engines are just as interesting as the motorcycles those engines came out of. That is certainly the case with these miniature race cars powered by Harley F-head V-twins built in the mid-teens and given the name "baby cars".

When it comes to military motorcycles, the US Army gets most of the credit.  Their first documented use of motorcycles in a military action dates back to 1916 and the hunt for Pancho Villa across Mexico.  Then of course there was the 88,000+ Harley WLA’s that were produced during WWII, many of which saw action being [...] More »

Harley built their first police bike in 1908 and have been supplying motorcycles to police departments all around the world ever since.  In those early years, just as today, having “police” painted on the side of your gas tank didn’t always mean you were going to get the cooperation and respect you deserved from the every [...] More »