Comments on: Harley Davidson Museum Grand Opening http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2008/05/06/harley-davidson-museum-grand-opening/ Motorcycle News for Positive People Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:40:02 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: PaulN http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2008/05/06/harley-davidson-museum-grand-opening/comment-page-1/#comment-126372 PaulN Tue, 06 May 2008 20:52:43 +0000 http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2008/05/06/harley-davidson-museum-grand-opening/#comment-126372 I work for the construction company that is building the museum. This project is a pretty big deal up there in Milwaukee. It will be really nice when it's done. I work for the construction company that is building the museum. This project is a pretty big deal up there in Milwaukee. It will be really nice when it’s done.

]]> By: Walt http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2008/05/06/harley-davidson-museum-grand-opening/comment-page-1/#comment-126359 Walt Tue, 06 May 2008 17:28:44 +0000 http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2008/05/06/harley-davidson-museum-grand-opening/#comment-126359 This will date me, but back in 1968 my then-girl friend and I stopped by the Harley factory on a trip across the country. I was thinking about restoring my 1932 VL and curious about what I could learn. We ended up on a factory tour with a handful of others. There was no real museum, but I was escorted into "the cage" where H-D stored the one bike pulled from the line in each year of production. There were vintage Harleys stacked on two levels in two rows, with a path between. I took lots of documentation photos (unfortunately in black and white). When I actually got busy with restoration thirty years later, as luck had it Harley had one of those cage bikes on display at its mini-museum at the York factory, and it chanced to be the 1932 VL. I shot it from every angle. It was a huge help in getting the restoration correct. Congrats to Harley for spending money to keep the company's remarkable history alive. This will date me, but back in 1968 my then-girl friend and I stopped by the Harley factory on a trip across the country. I was thinking about restoring my 1932 VL and curious about what I could learn. We ended up on a factory tour with a handful of others. There was no real museum, but I was escorted into “the cage” where H-D stored the one bike pulled from the line in each year of production.

There were vintage Harleys stacked on two levels in two rows, with a path between. I took lots of documentation photos (unfortunately in black and white). When I actually got busy with restoration thirty years later, as luck had it Harley had one of those cage bikes on display at its mini-museum at the York factory, and it chanced to be the 1932 VL. I shot it from every angle. It was a huge help in getting the restoration correct. Congrats to Harley for spending money to keep the company’s remarkable history alive.

]]> By: Clive Makinson-Sanders http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2008/05/06/harley-davidson-museum-grand-opening/comment-page-1/#comment-126352 Clive Makinson-Sanders Tue, 06 May 2008 16:16:25 +0000 http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2008/05/06/harley-davidson-museum-grand-opening/#comment-126352 Regardless of how i feel about harleys, there is a rich heritage behind them and if they dont focus too much on the 21st century, this museum might be pretty cool. Regardless of how i feel about harleys, there is a rich heritage behind them and if they dont focus too much on the 21st century, this museum might be pretty cool.

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