In 1981, 13 Harley-Davidson managers purchased the ailing motorcycle company from its parent conglomerate, AMF. Saddled with $83 million in debt, they had to avoid bankruptcy, restore employee commitment, revolutionize manufacturing processes, and dramatically increase sales-by yesterday. Today business professors throughout the world are citing the Harley-Davidson "miracle" in their classrooms. What really happened? Here is the first in-depth look at how this group of pioneering owner-managers breathed new life into their company and managed to win. How they combined Japanese work methods with American know-how and innovation. How they triumphed over financial instability and foreign competition. And how they positioned their company for steady future growth. But readers will find more than an exciting turnaround story here. They will find an overall strategy for making their own organization the best. They will observe the kinds of changes that have to be made in product strategy, marketing, finance, human resources, and manufacturing to achieve striking gains in quality, productivity, market share, and profitability. Well Made in America is an exciting guide for business managers who want their companies to become vital global competitors.

Well Made in America: Lessons from Harley-Davidson on Being the Best

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Well Made in America: Lessons From Harley-Davidson on Being The

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Harley-Davidson Police Motorcycles

Bike Lust roars straight into the world of women bikers and offers us a ride. In this adventure story that is also an insider's study of an American subculture, Barbara Joans enters as a passenger on the back of a bike, but soon learns to ride her own. As an anthropologist she untangles the rules, rituals, and rites of passage of the biker culture. As a new member of that culture, she struggles to overcome fear, physical weakness, and a tendency to shoot her mouth off-a tendency that very nearly gets her killed.

Bike Lust travels a landscape of contradictions. Outlaws still chase freedom on the highway, but so do thousands of riders of all classes, races, and colors. Joans introduces us to the women who ride the rear-the biker chick, the calendar slut straddling the hot engine, the back-seat Betty at the latest rally, or the underage groupie at the local run. But she also gives us the first close look at women who ride in their own right, on their own bikes, as well as a new understanding of the changing world of male bikers. These are ordinary women's lives made extraordinary, adding a dimension of courage to the sport not experienced by males, risking life and limb for a glimpse of the very edge of existence. This community of riders exists as a primal tribute to humanity's lust for freedom.

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Bike Lust: Harleys, Women, and American Society

Harleys are the most sought-after and customized motorcycles worldwide. Patrick Hook, both a rider and an engineer, explains all aspects of customizing your bike, from ignition systems to bodywork. Includes detailed examples of six different projects. Illustrated with over 250 full-color photographs.

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Customizing Your Harley-Davidson

Harley-Davidson Motor Company Service Manual Softail Models 1997 1998. Official Factory Manual PN99482-98

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Harley-Davidson Motor Company Service Manual Softail Models

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The Complete Harley Davidson Encyclopedia

How to Build Harley-Davidson Horsepower (Motorbooks International Cyclepro Series)

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How to Build Harley-Davidson Horsepower (Motorbooks

Harley aficionado Wolfgang Wiesner sorted through factory archives and personal collections from throughout the world to create this, the first photographic history of Harley-Davidsons. Wiesner provides a thorough development history of Harley-Davidson, following the riders, movie stars, folklore and, of course, the Milwaukee Iron itself.

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Harley-Davidson Photographic History: Archive, Racing, Folklore

The quintessential American motorcycle celebrates its centennial in 2003. Readers are sure to get revved-up by the more than 120 full-color and historical photos that accompany the story of Harley-Davidson's ups-and-downs. A family affair, from the first model made in Milwaukee till the sale of the company to AMF in 1969, the saga continues with even greater success today. Check out the close-ups of bikes and riders (from Malcolm Forbes to rally HOGs), with bikes like the beautifully-restored early Silent Gray Fellow and the Peashooter, and the later Knucklehead and a customized Duo-Glide taking center stage. Closing with the great and still-growing annual rally in Sturgis, South Dakota, Harley fans will have a great ride through this chronicle of bikes and bikers--from the earliest bicycle-like machines to The Wild One rebels, cops, and custom jobs.

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The Harley-Davidson Legend

Motorcycles built by the Milwaukee-based company from its inception in 1903 until the suspension of civilian manufacturing at the outbreak of World War II are the most prized bikes among motorcycle collectors. Color photography of restored models features such classics as early singles and twins, World War I military models, racers, Flatheads and Knuckleheads. These early Harley-Davidsons also inform the inspiration for many of the aesthetic touches, including paint schemes and logos, on Harley-Davidson's modern offerings. Included in this history is a remarkable, never-before-published prototype drawing from 1901.

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Harley-Davidson 1903-1941 (Enthusiast Color Series)