While the car manufacturers are all doing their bit to help out, Harley-Davidson is standing up for the motorcycle community.

Hardley-Davison Australia promised to match its dealerships fundraising efforts dollar-for-dollar, so when dealers around Australia and New Zealand banded together to raise $40,000, head office promptly matched the figure, bringing the total to $80,000.

“Our dealerships, many [...]

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Have you noticed friends, how ‘economic experts’ proliferate in inverse proportion to their usefulness?

These days, you can barely open a cupboard without finding one of the little buggers in there waiting to give you a run-down on how crap everything has become, how crap the year gone has been, how crap the next is going [...]

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Friends, seems that while the car industry is going to the dogs, things in ‘hog-land’ are just hunky-dory. Harley-Davidson 2008 Australian sales are the best ever, hitting record numbers after just 11 months.

“When things look shyte-encrusted, buy a hog…” yup, I can see the appeal in that advice right about now.

No less than 7,150 new [...]

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Harley-Davidson motorcycles carried countless GIs around the battlefields of  Europe, and engendered a fierce loyalty among home-coming US servicemen. And the next generation of US riders carried on that loyalty; partly out of respect for the recent past, and partly because the company was American, by God.

But the seventies brought almost fatal decline for H-D [...]

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