Harley museum explores motorcycle company’s off-road history

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The Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee opens a new exhibit, "Off-Road Harley-Davidson," on November 21.

"In the decades before America paved its highways, early riders had to be prepared for all sorts of terrain: sand, clay or dirt – and wandering those makeshift byways were Harley-Davidson motorcycles," the museum notes. "Today, it's called off-road or adventure touring; back then it was just called riding.

"Since 1903, Harley-Davidson motorcycles proved their toughness by riding over wooded hills, through stone-choked creek beds and up mountain sides. 'Off-road Harley-Davidson' tells the history of motorcycles designed for rough roads, the people who rode them and the adventures they shared."


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