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Harley-Davidson Memories: The Golden Age of Motorcycling
By Bob Tyson
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Join motorcycle enthusiast, writer, and journeyman machinist Bob Tyson as he highlights vintage Harley-Davidson motorcycles in Harley Davidson Memories: The Golden Age of Motorcycling. Born into a family rich in Harley-Davidson history, Tyson tells their stories as well as others’ accounts and adventures from the Golden Years of motorcycling. With a foreword written by Jay Leno, this unique book features a large collection of photographssome never-before-publishedand Harley-Davidson advertisements from the early 1900s. So sit back and enjoy the ride of your life on these antique bikes.
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Harley-Davidson Memories - Bob Tyson
Introduction
Welcome to Harley-Davidson Memories, a unique and personal glimpse back into the Golden Years of motorcycling. Turn these pages and take a trip back in time as you see how the bikers before us did what we all love to do, ride motorcycles. This book is not another technical history, because that has been done many times before, and I don’t think I could add anything, or do it better than it has been done before. Nor is it a book full of staged factory publicity photos, like you may be used to seeing in every other Harley-Davidson history. This book is a scrapbook of real people, doing real things with their own motorcycles. Road trips, picnics, Jack Pine Enduros, and family vacations are all captured here on film in a time when photography was still something of a novelty itself. Yet one look at these photos will tell you that the photographer had a great eye for a nice picture as well as a love for the machines. Not only was he a photographer, but he was an avid motorcyclist, and he knew exactly what images he wanted to save for future enthusiasts to
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