What Do YOU Think Was Important?

[Buzz Kanter]

We are working on an article for American Iron Magazine about the more significant events and products in the last 20 years.

What do you feel is important enough to be included in this article? We are thinking about things as wide ranging as the last Evo, First TC88, first V-Rod, VR-1000 racing, HD buys Buell, intro of Victory, etc.

Lay it on us guys!

[HarleyCruiser]

I like that little thumb screw under the throttle so I can take my hand off the bars and rest them.

[oldschoolcool]

Hey Buzz..ALL are very good ideas. As much as I may regret suggesting it, Biker build off's, OCC, and AIM seem to have gotten people interested in American Iron again. As has the Harley dealerships "modernizing" their facilities in a more 'welcoming" way. Just my thoughts.

[street bob]

Anniversary parties.......... Museum.......

[EZE RIDER]

The introduction of the XR1200 perhaps.

[Wrightturn]

Important changes:

1. Belt drive
2. Improved oil control
3. Rubber mount Sportsters
4. Dealers selling below MSRP
5. MSF safety programs
6. AIM forum where we can share ideas and information that will help each other.
7. Toys for Tots rides

[Tbone]

It's got to be the EPA regulation of a few motorcycles ridden once a month to bike night to keep the polar bears from having to move into Canada and live on bare dirt. This has got to rank right up there with anything and everything that a heavy-handed government has ever done to discriminate against one small faction of American culture. It resulted in more ramifications of bike manufacturing and ownership than any other single thing that has happened.
Lean and overheated air-cooled engines that cannot possibly be producing as much ozone destroying gases compared to the methane produced by cows on the planet and their resulting dung heaps.

[rcd]

The meteoric rise of Harley Davidson and of motorcycles in general.

Like oldschoolcool said the chopper building craze.

The rise and fall and rise again of Indian.

How the 1972 FLH (like mine) is probably the greatest Harley ever built !?!

[rcd]

AND...
The boom of women riders.

Lastly, how mainstream motorcycling has become that there is a "motorcycle club soap opera" on TV.

Bubba Blackwell sitting a bagger on the exhuast, doing unbelievable stuff on a FXD or going vertical on a V-Rod. Seriously, how quick the aftermarket guys can get around the ECM's on Harleys by building the equipment to offset the "lean burn situation".