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The Harley-Davidson did start to became famous when William Harley and Arthur Davidson produced last 1903 the first output of motorcycle. The motorbike was created  in a small shed wooden with the name Harley-Davidson Motor company on the front door and had become the racing bike. Harley-Davidson were able to develop 3 motocycles for the public right after one year. Harley Davidson Road King Exhaust

In 1905 Harley-Davidson wins it’s initial race and hires it’s first employee. The first motorcylce was sold to the Detroit Police Department in 1908 also it was made use of as a police service. They became profitable that they were able to build a 6 story factory building and started to export their motorcycles to the Japan.
1914 marks the year H-D officially enters itself into the national racing circuit, and is speedily known as “The Wrecking Crew” for it’s dominance in the racing industry. In 1917, part of the motorcyles they made were sold the military and was used as military and civilian bikes.
By 1918 half of all bikes created were brought off to military for service in World War 1, and Corporal Roy Holtz is considered the first soldier to ride a Harley-Davidson Motorcycle in Germany. The motocycle company became more fruitful in 1920 with 2,000 dealers in 67 countries in the whole world.
THe competitors of Harley-Davidson disappeared in 1931 except for the Indian Motorcycle Company. Harley-Davidson and Indian are the only two motorcycle companies in America, until 1953.
For the reason that world goes in into World War 2, so does Harley turn back into Military motorcycle generation, and the service school is turned directly into the military motorcycle service school, also known as the Quartermaster School for military mechanics. This was the time when the public had a hard time to get hold of the Harley-Davidson motorcycle.