From: Ryan M Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Wed Feb 13 2002 - 09:22:30 PST
At 7:49 AM -0500 2/13/02, James Shanks wrote:
>
>In the Early 1930's Harley sold and setup an entire motorcycle plant for the
>Japanese after a nationwide eartquake that devstated the road system such as
>it was. It was determined by the government that mororcycles were were the
>only way to rebuild transport while the damage was repaired. In WWII all
>civilian production bikes were impounded for Military use as was all
>production from the plant. I beleive the plant porduced UL model bikes.
>Unfortunately we bombed it to smithereens later in the war.
Was it not the same Harleys that were taken to various pacific
islands by Japanese Officers who dressed them up in a western style
to emulate the western cowboy's mount? When said islands were
captured, US Marines found the bikes and took them home. In the
states the style caught on....
'course it could be something heard on the internet...
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