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For the 14th annual F-Series truck and Harley-Davidson motorcycle partnering, Ford has created one of the most dramatic models ever.  The Ford Harley-Davidson™ F-150 flaunts new snakeskin leather interior accents and a stylized bodyside graphic for 2012.

Over the years, the Ford and Harley-Davidson collaboration has produced ten F-150 models, six Super Duty F-250 and F-350 models and in 2009 the first Harley-Davidson F-450 edition truck. Ford has sold more than 70,000 Ford Harley-Davidson F-Series trucks since the brands teamed up in 1999. Read the rest of this entry »

FLHXXX Street Glide joins Harley’s Trike family 

Not since the legendary Servicar, which happened to be the longest-running production Harley-Davidson model (1932-1973) rolled off the assembly line, had the Motor Company manufactured a factory-produced trike. In appearance, the new 2010 FLHXXX Street Glide Trike looks like a Street Glide from the front, back to the trailing edge of the 103 cubic-inch motor – and it actually is, except for a few nuances such as the rake angle, front stabilization damping strut and braking set-up. 

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A Worthy tribute to an earlier era 

The Harley-Davidson Sportster tends to represent the definitive uninhibited essence of motorcycling that was popular during the 1950s. The “Sporty could be found on not only challenging dirt tracks but drag strips as well. In true fashion, most were modified to suit the rider, but also for the purpose for which the bike was intended.

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Each Ness clan member adds custom touches to individual bikes

The Victory motorcycle division of Polaris Industries celebrated their 10^th Anniversary in 2008 and entered their second decade of “The New American Motorcycle” production with significant mods to the 2009 lineup of bikes in both the cruiser and touring categories. 2010 saw the addition of two new touring models – the Victory Cross Roads and Victory Cross Country. The Cross Roads bike offered hard sculpted bags, forward crash bars and a windshield, while the Cross Country cruiser substituted a fork-mounted fairing with a “shorty” windshield. As with all of Victory’s models, regardless of category, the bikes fill the bill as highly customized turn-key units right off the showroom floor. 

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New limited-production bagger is truly a custom hot rod bike

Every year, Harley-Davidson’s Custom Vehicle Operations team selects a number of bikes from its various family groupings to “make-over” as special factory-custom rides. For 2010, there were four bikes chosen to receive the unique CVO™ treatment: two of which are totally new models – the Softaill Convertible CVO and the Touring group’s Street Glide CVO. The other two are freshened or updated models – the Fat Bob CVO from the Dyna family, and the CVO Ultra Classic Electra Glide. 

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