Harley has been the number one seller in the 1000 cc and above market for
several years. It's good to see they took the whole enchilada at last. Think
of all the different size street bikes the big jap four make, then figure
that Harley makes nothing smaller than a 883cc machine, pretty impressive.
Dale "chief" Thomas.
Original Message-----
From: Ed Van Scoy <edvs@idt.net>
To: joe boogie <boogiewoogie12@hotmail.com>
Cc: genesds@ic.net <genesds@ic.net>; land-speed@autox.team.net
<land-speed@autox.team.net>
Date: Thursday, December 23, 1999 10:01 PM
Subject: Re: Introduction
>Good news for the Harley fans; Heard on tv (CNBC) today that Harley was the
best
>selling bike in the US in 1999 with a 26% market share. Honda has held the
title
>for decades (since the 60's). It has been over 40 years since Harley held
this
>title. FWIW I' m a Harley rider too with a 1948 FL and a 1991 FXSTC.
Started
>riding scooters in 1962 (Cushman, Mustang, Allstate etc) and rode my first
>Milwakee Vibrator in 1966.
>Ed
>
>joe boogie wrote:
>
>> Cool Gene! I've got a street sportster thats done service at
Speedweek
>> before as a "pit bike" -can't get no better way to get around the pits
at
>> Bonnie-ville! I heard the pits were almost a mile long during the 50th
last
>> year...that may be stretchin it but I'd hate to have to walk the pits
I'll
>> tell ya that!
>> BTW: my "sport" is an '82 "Roadster" turned flat-tracker with 10-1
>> wiseco's, sifton cams, ported heads, and running an andrews flowmaster
carb.
>> -all work by yrs truly. you'll find that theres lotsa rodders that'r
bikers
>> here too. -'course you already knew that.
>> "Welcome aboard" I've only been on this myself for a month or two
an'
>> I'm havin' a ball learnin' loads of stuff I never knew!
>> See ya at Bonneville sometime! your're gonna fall in love.
>>
>> Cheers, "Dirty Doug" in NY 6:45 pm edt 12/23/99
>>
>> >From: "Gene Brauninger" <genesds@ic.net>
>> >Reply-To: "Gene Brauninger" <genesds@ic.net>
>> >To: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
>> >Subject: Introduction
>> >Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 08:26:05 -0500
>> >
>> >Thanks for all the replys on which meet to attend. We have decided on
the
>> >August SpeedWeek meet. I have a RV and have already made reservations
at
>> >the KOA in Wendover for the week.
>> >
>> >A little bakground about me/us. My name is Gene Brauninger and I live
just
>> >outside Detroit MI. I belong to the X-L Sportster List and the Harley
>> >Email
>> >Digest. In October we got a post that a group of Moto Guzzi riders set
2
>> >new records at Bonneville. These records were held by HD Sportsters.
The
>> >Guzzi group was from their internet digest list. Not wanting to let the
>> >records stay in the Guzzi hands one of the members suggested we try and
>> >take
>> >it back. So here we are. I am the owner of the XR1000 that we will
use.
>> >The story is a at www.Sportster.org if you are interested.
>> >
>> >I will read up on the past post and once again thanks for the replys. I
>> >will probably have more questions and hope to meet many of you in
August.
>> >
>> >Gene
>> >
>> >
>> >
>
>
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