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...For anyone looking to experience the impressive torque and famous throb of a Harley-Davidson V-Twin engine without having to heave a heavy two-wheeler onto its stand or hold it upright at traffic lights...
...The Harley-Davidson chief executive’s name still looms over the towering, tubey edifice, which is dominated within by a vaulting nine-storey atrium that Thomas Heatherwick, its designer, once likened to...
...The only electric superbike from a widely recognised marque to have entered production is Harley-Davidson’s LiveWire, released two years ago....
...Until a couple of years ago, Harley-Davidson’s main – but still relatively insignificant competitor – in the V-twin touring-bike market was Italy’s Moto Guzzi, which maintains a loyal following among long-distance...
...Harley-Davidson became the first US manufacturer to detail the financial hit of being caught in the crossfire of the trade spat....
...response so far has come from the standard playbook: threatening retaliatory sanctions in politically sensitive areas (bourbon from Kentucky, the home state of Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader; Harley-Davidsons...
...Targeting US products such as Harley-Davidson motorcycles relies on what experts say is at best a creative interpretation of WTO law, by rejecting the US’s argument that it is acting in the name of national...
...Stroll through a toyshop or browse the internet and you can discover Dream Date Barbie, Sporty Barbie, Firefighter Barbie, Marie Antoinette Barbie, even Harley-Davidson Barbie....
...(FT) Electric motorcycles are coming American motorcycle manufacturer Harley-Davidson is known for chrome, freedom and big, beefy V-twin engines — but soon, it will also be known for something very different...
...Many older machines have risen stratospherically in value, Brough Superior, Vincent, Harley-Davidson and Indian in particular....
...Even Harley-Davidson is testing opinion among its notoriously change-resistant enthusiasts for a prototype electric motorcycle, the LiveWire....
...The plan was to out-Harley the top-selling market leader, Harley-Davidson, with a range of bigger, more extrovert machines – but very much in the company’s mould of long, large bikes with large-capacity...
...But where Japanese bike makers have also aped Harleys by using V-twin motors, Triumph has given itself a unique selling point with a parallel twin engine....
...This gave Triumph a defining space in the big bike business between Harley-Davidson, with its V-twin engines, and Japanese rivals, which often deploy four cylinders....
...To get to and from his hospitals, he converted his 1921-vintage Harley Davidson motorcycle and sidecar to run on charcoal vapour, given the fact that petrol and diesel were rationed....
...Take, for example, the mounting of the V-twins that characterise Harleys....
...In his 25 years of building quirky but sharp sportsbikes, Erik Buell, the company’s chairman, had always used heavy, slow-revving Harley-Davidson engines. But then, Buell is a former Harley man....
...The narrow-angle V-twin engine gives Harleys their distinctive exhaust tone – described as making a sound like “potato potato” when the factory tried to patent the noise – but it also gives a lumpy power...
...His predecessor, Jeff Bleustein, is also an avid rider of his Electra Glide and V-Rod bikes. Harley-Davidson has performed as well as its bikes in recent years....
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