Please join us for the annual Toy Run -

23rd Annual Children’s Hospital Toy Run
Sunday, December 7th, 2008
Pre-register or make a cash donation at Mile High in Aurora. Our store will be open from 8am to 10am Sunday the 7th with free coffee and donuts. Mile High Hog Chapter will lead a ride from the Store to the Aurora Sports Park at 10am.

Learn more about the Toy Run »

Thursday, December 11th – 6pm to 9pm
Attention Ladies – Mile High Harley-Davidson® will be hosting a ladies night on December 11th. There will be a fashion show, specials, wine & cheese and representatives from Mary Kay, Cesto Gifts, and Traveling Vineyard.

So make sure to stop by on Thursday night and pamper yourself for the holidays!

Planet Harley Shipping Deadlines
for Pre-Christmas Delivery:

Ground: December 12th
*FREE SHIPPING only available for ground shipments!
2nd Day Air: December 22nd
Next Day: December 23rd

www.planetharley.com

Mile High Harley-Davidson® is a great place to get into the Holiday spirit. Motorcycles make one of the best gifts, so buy a new Harley-Davidson® motorcycle for your loved one today with no payments for 90 days with approved financing.

Additionally, Mile High is offering a free Collectible Motorcycle Gift Set with every purchase (over $350). The set features the Motorcycles of the 90s - with five of the classic models on display in a black frame.

Ever wonder how Harley-Davidson® motorcycles are made? Well, you’re in luck - you can make a trip out to the Harley-Davidson Vehicle and Powertrain Operations plant and check it out for yourself.

The company that William Harley and the Davidson brothers started in 1903 produces the beauties you see in the showroom. Take the treck from Colorado to Kansas City - a 616 mile drive - and you’ll experience a series of displays to guide you through teh manufacturing and assembly process. The tour begins with an introductory film, then you’ll check out the factory floor and witness laser-cutting, welding, frame-bending, polishing and wheel assembly. Part of the tour also includes seeing how the Revolution® powertrain is assembled, as well as watching gas tanks being formed, and robotic - yes, robots - welding technology.

Tours begin at regular intervals between 9:00 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Tickets are distributed on a first-come, first-served basis. It is recommended that you arrive early in the day. Tours are not offered on weekends or on major holidays - make sure to call before you plan your trip. Please call 1-877-883-1450 (toll free) or 414-343-7850 prior to your visit for up-to-date tour information.

Learn more at www.harley-davidson.com

Here’s a good article about how the image of motorcyclists is evolving - and how the number of women riders is on the rise.

Full Article: www.myfoxstl.com

(KTVI - myFOXstl.com) — Back in the 1950’s, Marlin Brando starred in a movie called “The Wild One.” It was about a motorcycle gang terrorizing a small town. Motorcycling didn’t have the greatest of reputations and the movie didn’t help any. All that many people knew about motorcycling was what they had heard about The Hells Angels motorcycle gang. In the late 60’s, Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper starred in “Easy Rider”, a biker flick that helped change some of the perceptions of cyclists.

The image of motorcyclists has continued to evolve. You still have motorcycle gangs and thugs riding bikes, but you also have doctors and lawyers and police officers. But that’s not all. More and more women are riding bikes. National statistics show that 10-12 percent of the motorcycles sold now go to women.

Two Fox 2 motorcycle riders, photographer Dick Arnold and anchor Tom O’Neal, rode the Great River Road in Illinois with some women bikers who call themselves, “The Ladies of Harley.” The group includes Patty Bush, the owner of Doc’s Harley-Davidson in Kirkwood. She’s been riding for 46 years and remembers being the only woman biker when she’d ride with her brother. She got the urge to ride from her father who raced motorcycles. She says women are much less intimidated now when they come into her store. It also helps for them to know that she rides.

Some of the women in the group started riding behind their husbands and then decided to try it themselves. One woman decided she was going to live life to the fullest after suffering a stroke. Another decided it was time to do something for her after raising two kids.

We wanted to share this article that talks about one of the exhibits at the new Harley-Davidson® museum in Milwaukee.
Exhibit at museum in Milwaukee shares 105 years of history

Full article: www.ohio.com

By Tom Uhlenbrock
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Published on Sunday, Oct 26, 2008

MILWAUKEE: One of the first exhibits you see upon strolling into the new Harley-Davidson Museum is a bicycle-like frame, with white tires and an engine mounted low in the middle. The display explains that a hand lever was used to tighten the leather belt leading from the engine to the back rim, creating tension and propelling the cycle forward.

And, there you have it, the first motorcycle created by Bill Harley and Arthur Davidson in 1903 in a wood shed that stood not far from here. The oldest Harley in the world is known as ”Serial Number One” because its metal parts bear that stamp.

In the museum’s last exhibit, an Electra Glide, a candy-apple red touring Hog with saddle bags, is among the 10 models waiting for dreamers in a darkened auditorium with landscapes flashing above on a huge screen. Climb onto the white leather seat behind the windshield and you can almost smell the Kansas hayfields on your imaginary cross-country ride.

A lot of miles and motorcycles have passed between the two bikes, and that’s the story told by the museum, which opened during the summer in time for Harley-Davidson’s 105th anniversary. It’s an American success story that should be an inspiration for the nation’s auto industry.

Faced with cheaper, and better, foreign imports, 13 Harley executives bought back the company from American Machine and Foundry in 1981 and embarked on a quality-control program that sparked a renewed interest and a new motorcycle from the ground up by 1984.

”We didn’t feel like we had to apologize anymore for what
we were making,” one of theexecs says in a film about the turnaround.

Today, the company’s customers are fiercely loyal. Harley riders are family, and their personal stories are told in the museum’s photos and videos. A burly biker inspecting the wall wore a T-shirt that said across the back, ”I am the big dog.”

“America, please don’t buy a Harley because it gets 50 MPG,” starts out a new advertising campaign launched by Harley-Davidson. These new ads running in Sports Illustrated and USA Today, are a sign of today’s high gas prices, and reminds riders that riding a H-D motorcycle is more about the ride than the cost of riding it (though that is a nice perk!).

Mile High Harley-Davidson has the new line of 2009 motorcycles in stock now, so come check out these amazing machines that can get you around in style with less trips to the gas station.

In 2008 Harley-Davidson introduced its first official trike, after years of watching gung-ho riders customize their motorcycles into three-wheelers. To bring it a step further, H-D is now rethinking the trike with designs for a new leaning reverse-trike that will hug corners. They’re planning on bringing this new creation to the Intermot Motorcycle Show in Cologne, Germany this October. (Man, we’d sure like to be at this great event - it’s the 6th International Motorcycle and Scooter Fair, and should be packed full of new beautiful bikes, Trailers and sidecars, Components and accessories, Engines and components, motorcyclists‘ gear and more. Click here to open a window with show info.)

H-D’s original trikes, like the Servi-Car (1932-1973) and it’s latest Tri-Glide Ultra Classic are built with a third wheel in the back which cannot lean into turns like two-wheeled motorcycles. This new leaning trike pivots on an independent parallelogram suspension allowing for it to hug the curves like a traditional bike. Rumor has it that the new reverse-trike will be powered by a liquid-cooled Revolution V-Twin engine – time will tell!

Image by Harley-Davidson® from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.