1918 Harley-Davidson model 18 J Amish Motorcycle

[silverbear]

Curtis Fox sent me this link for a curious sidecar modeled 1918 Harley. When I saw it it made me think of horses and buggies and I imagined it is what a young Amish guy secretly dreamed about riding instead of the horse and buggy... cool bike.

HowStuffWorks "1918 Harley-Davidson 18-J"

SB

 

[Goat Herder]

Wow that is quite a bike!!

 

[fasteddy]

Silverbear, is that the next side car build?

Steve.

 

[curtisfox]

Silverbear, is that the next side car build?

Steve.

I think SB should just put a top on his and it would look awesome..........Curt

 

[fasteddy]

Curt, your right. That may take some planning though.

Steve.

 

[cobrafreak]

Here is a picture of a 1917 Harley Davidson with sidecar rig that I posed next to at the local vintage motorcycle show. Very close to the 1918 model. It was so clean you could eat off of it.

 

[Allen_Wrench]

That 1918 HD was awesome; awesome sidecar too. And to top it all off, it made me feel better about life: with my previous bike I had big balloon tires with wide whitewalls. On the rear tire, sprocket-side, I was forever scrubbing that tire clean to make it look like the others. Then I saw in the pic of the 1918 - they didn't even pretend to keep the sprocket-side whitewall clean. And the bike looks more real that way somehow, more "daily-driver" if you will. I don't feel so bad about ridin' around with my rear tire lookin' all nasty sometimes.

 

[brett7777]

Here is a picture of a 1917 Harley Davidson with sidecar rig that I posed next to at the local vintage motorcycle show. Very close to the 1918 model. It was so clean you could eat off of it.

hey CF if you took out the modern dressed people in the background & made your pic greyscale, you would look like you had just stepped outta 1917

 

[cobrafreak]

I did, this is just where the time machine happen to let me out at, Lol.

 

[Goat Herder]

I did, this is just where the time machine happen to let me out at, Lol.

Gotta keep that thing calibrated lol.