The story began in 1903 in a shed in the garden of the Milwaukee home of one Arthur Davidson, friend and partner of the young, bright Bill Harley. What came out of that shed was no more than a reinforced bicycle chassis powered by a simple De Dion-type single cylinder four-stroke motor. This dreadful popping and gasping boneshaker was the precursor of all Harley-Davidson motorcycles.

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