Carver Marquardt, of South Lake Tahoe, Calif., rides a 1969 Harley-Davidson and visited the York County manufacturing operations last week while he was on the East Coast ...
Now, nearly a year into the job, Harley's chief executive officer has cut millions of dollars in costs, eliminated thousands of jobs and brought a sense of urgency to the world's largest maker of heavyweight motorcycles ...
Good tread on your Harley Davidson tire can be the difference between holding the road on a turn and dumping the bike. For that reason you should get in the habit of checking your tires for tread wear on a ...
Following last year's surprise cash injection of $600 million, half of which was contributed by Warren Buffett's company, Berkshire Hathaway , shares of legendary motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson kicked into overdrive, more than doubling in the year since the deal went down ...
Harley-Davidson and its partners are wasting little time beginning restructuring efforts for its York Vehicle Operations in Springettsbury Township, as the entity buying part of Harley's site began Tuesday looking for environmental consultants ...
We got jealous when Harley's XR1200 was a Europe-only offering, and gawked when Honda's DN-01 wasn't available in the U.S. But now that both bikes can be bought stateside, they don't ooze desirability in quite the same way, do they? ... That said, try not to get excited by the new Honda Twister, a sharply styled, 238 lb thumper equipped with a 110cc powerplant that yields 164 miles per gallon. A four-speed manual gearbox drives scooter-like levels of power (9 hp, to be exact) to the rear wheel,
It was a vote that will cost many Harley-Davidson employees their jobs, but the alternative was worse. Wednesday, the union employees at Harley's plant in York, Pa., approved a seven-year contract that will likely keep the motorcycle assembly operations in York but will result in the loss of nearly half of the 1,900 jobs. The vote was 1,587 in favor of the contract and 193 against it. Should the union have rejected the contract, Harley had said it might build a new plant in Shelbyville, Ky., and
The initial, single-cylinder engine designed by William S. Harley in 1901 and installed in a pedal bicycle, displaced 7.07 cubic inches (or 116 cc). Two years later, with assistance from Harley's boyhood friend Arthur Davidson and Arthur's brother Walter, they ...