HD has finally sorted the water cooling issue

[GrayWolf]

This is how most people react, but its how it happened.Just in case you do not understand, KHI purchased AMF motorcycles for a very brief time, just enough to fully develop the evo engine,( it was only a few months) before a deal was brokered which involved the input from the US government(keeping jobs etc).(KHI got it for peanuts, but sold it back for a fortune).Take it as you like,but as I said most HD buffs dont like to admit it.

Area 51 crashed ship? you've been watching to much TV!

Well HD did open a production line in Japan prior to the war (WW2).. and the only japanese engine I can remember in HD's was around the time they were using the Aeromachhi brand as well, they had a small 2t motor developed by Yamaha in one of the bikes. The model was the SS250 2T and was developed from the yamaha DT250 motors.

Quote: (One of a quartet of new mid-size two-stroke singles based on a Yamaha design and introduced by Harley-Davidson in the mid-1970s, the SS-250 appeared in 1975 and was the largest street version offered. On/off-road models carried the SX prefix, and both bikes were eventually available in 175- and 250-cc sizes.)

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/1975-h...son-ss-250.htm

[Flip]

The same reason one bike is called the Fat Boy after the Fat Man and the Tall Boy atomic bombs dropped on Japan. The early ones even had the same yellow stripe graphic that the Fat Man bomb had.

It was a way of thumbing you nose at the Japs and saying copy this!

[The Lone Rider]

The same reason one bike is called the Fat Boy after the Fat Man and the Tall Boy atomic bombs dropped on Japan. The early ones even had the same yellow stripe graphic that the Fat Man bomb had.

It was a way of thumbing you nose at the Japs and saying copy this!

The above is in fact... not true.

Myth.


1990 was also a fair way off World War 2.

[Crasherfromwayback]

The above is in fact... not true.

Myth.


1990 was also a fair way off World War 2.

Depends who you talk to. Maybe HD decided it wasn't quite PC enough and then said it was simply 'myth'.

[The Lone Rider]

Depends who you talk to. Maybe HD decided it wasn't quite PC enough and then said it was simply 'myth'.

Or people buy into fanciful conspiracy theories, when the plain and simple straight forward answer is in fact the truth.

It's Myth.

Silver looked good. The bike looked fatter in the front. The gold trim was elegant and made the new model stand out.

No doubt someone sitting a pub somewhere... 45 years after the war... said to his buddy next to him "Hey, wouldn't it be funny if that new Harley was named after those bombs that hit Japan." To which his mate said "Yeah hey! You're probably right".


Also, the use of HOG to refer to Harley is not particularly accurate. When and whereI grew up HOG did not mean Harley, but it seems to be a new phenomena since the owners group was formed.

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...10#post1348310

[FJRider]

The same reason one bike is called the Fat Boy after the Fat Man and the Tall Boy atomic bombs dropped on Japan. The early ones even had the same yellow stripe graphic that the Fat Man bomb had.

It was a way of thumbing you nose at the Japs and saying copy this!

http://www.snopes.com/business/market/fatboy.asp

[Flip]

Well the Japs havent called a bike the Kamikazi yet, have they?

I still like my non PC story.

[The Lone Rider]

Well the Japs havent called a bike the Kamikazi yet, have they?

That would make a very awesome name for a chopper though.

Better than the Harley frame and body kit but Jap engine bike I want to build in the future (Hondarley)

[misterO]

Fat Man and the Tall Boy? I think you mean Fat Man and Little Boy. Unless perhaps you're referring to Havoc and Newsboy...

[ndepratt]

This is how most people react, but its how it happened.Just in case you do not understand, KHI purchased AMF motorcycles for a very brief time, just enough to fully develop the evo engine,( it was only a few months) before a deal was brokered which involved the input from the US government(keeping jobs etc).(KHI got it for peanuts, but sold it back for a fortune).Take it as you like,but as I said most HD buffs dont like to admit it.

Area 51 crashed ship? you've been watching to much TV!

Worst version of Harley history, sprinkled with a bit of terrible US history.

And Harley buffs don't accept your story because it's untrue.

[avgas]

Well the Japs havent called a bike the Kamikazi yet, have they?
I still like my non PC story.

Wouldn't surprise me if they wanted to keep the fat-boy name history hush-hush and act PC about it.
Look at the shit they got for their "Confederate Edition".

As for the Japs making a kamikazi. From recall Kawasaki originally wanted to call the Z1 the Zero. But I don't know how much of that is myth or 'myth' along the same sort of lines as Harley one I guess.

On the same note of war and the likes. Anyone find it funny that Porsche is working with Harley.......but the Japs weren't allowed.
Or that DKW designs became harley's.
Or that the Harley war-horse was a BMW.
Seems the American's didn't hate the Germs after all.

[avgas]

Worst version of Harley history, sprinkled with a bit of terrible US history.
And Harley buffs don't accept your story because it's untrue.

I'm not even a Harley buff. But respect where respect is due.
I personally think that Harley were morons in the 80's and 90's. They got offered help for nothing and turned it down. Their ego's were too big for them to be humble.

Not to mention the way they killed Buell.

But respect where respect is due. They are still around today.

[Drew]

Not to mention the way they killed Buell.

Buell was not making the profit that hogs were, I'd have dropped it like a hot rock too. And have you seen what Eric Buell came up with when he wasn't forced to use a Harley motor? The dude is clearly out of his friggin mind.

[BIG DOUG]

Twin cam cranks are rebuildable it is getting the parts to rebuild them that is the problem but I have seen an A + B crank have there rods and crankpin changed to make one good crank,hell it is only an oversized two stroke crank.

[Big Dave]

Buell was not making the profit that hogs were, I'd have dropped it like a hot rock too. And have you seen what Eric Buell came up with when he wasn't forced to use a Harley motor? The dude is clearly out of his friggin mind.

^ Proof you shouldn't believe everything you read online.