Since 1903, 106 years.
Harley Davidson has been making sportster motorcycles for 26 years now honet boo!!!
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Over 1,000,000 people own Harley Davidson motorcycles in the United States. Not only are Harley Davidson bikes among the most popular motorcycles, they have been contracted for use among several police departments and the armed forces,
No, Harley-Davidson makes the most respected & revered motorcycles in the world and Massey Ferguson makes agricultural machinery. Harley-Davidson began half a century before Massey Ferguson and has been manufacturing motorcycles longer than any company in history. People who aren't familiar with motorcycles sometimes confuse the two companies' names because they have the same number of syllables.
A. D. Farrow Harley-Davidson in Columbus, Ohio, was founded in 1912 and is the oldest Harley-Davidson dealer in America. A. D. Farrow Harley-Davidson Co. has been recognized by the Harley-Davidson motor company as the oldest continually operating Harley-Davidson dealership. You can visit A. D. Farrow's website to see a video made by Harley-Davidson documenting who the oldest is. Kegel Harley Davidson in Rockford, Illinois, claims to be the oldest Harley dealership in the United States. Their history page of their web site offers undocumented proof. Kegal Harley Davidson is how ever the oldest Harley-Davidson dealership still in the same family.
1903
With all the veterans that own and operate a HD, I believe they (HD) should offer a substancial discount to those vetrerans that that have been disabled due to military service.
108 years
The Harley Davidson company has never admitted to the existence of what has been called the "Harley Davidson wobble". But there are many and different opinions about this as anyone can see by doing a short internet search. According to what some people maintain, the wobble is an alleged construction fault in certain types of Harley Davidson motorcycles, resulting in loss of control over the rear wheel of the motorcycle with unforeseeable consequences. Before jumping to conclusions there are several things that I want to stress. First, Harley Davidson is without question an extremely respectable company with a long history. The company and what it stands for has long since become an unisputed legend in the world of motorcycles. What is more, Harley Davidson produces motorcycles of such special character and uniqueness as to be virtually without mentionable competitors in its line of business. This is because their bikes are designed and developed from a certain point of view, based on a concept that is at once classical and modern. I personally find it very difficult to believe that a company of such enormous significance and reputation would ever put a motorcycle on the streets that was not perfectly safe. Another matter is, how do people drive motorcycles - do they drive them in an equally safe way? I should say that the facts show this is not always the case. Any motorcycle has its limits and so have their drivers. When those limits are overriden then accidents can occur. This is equally true of all motorcycles.
Of course, they have been in business for a long time.
Chances are the XL or Sportster is #1 simply due to the fact the bike has been produced and sold since 1957 with no gaps in production.
They have been around since 1903 and are still going strong.