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Harley-Davidson 200 CLE Sidecar (1979)

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A rare bit of glamour and frivolity for a humdrum world.
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Harley-Davidson FLTC Tour Glide Classic (1986)

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Well, I guess there's no reason you can't do it that way.
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Harley-Davidson Low Rider FXRS Sport Edition (1985)

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Versatility above and beyond the call of duty.
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Harley-Davidson Sportster (1965)

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H-D's middle-of-the-line machines make many other "big" bikes look like weak tea.
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Harley-Davidson XLS (1978)

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Harley fights Specials with, well, a Special.
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Harley-Davidson XLX (1982)

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A Romantic Tale: It is the Year 26, and the Harley-Davidson Sportster is still with us. For the Year of Our Lord Nineteen Hundred Eighty-Three, Milwaukee has introduced the XLX, at $4000 the most affordable Sportster since the 17-cent McDonald hamburger. The XLX is the essential Sportster, trimmed to expose a raw-boned machine, a nighttime street-racer stripped for action.
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Harley-Davison 1200 Super Glide (1970)

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The members of the Harley-Davidson styling team have savaged the venerable Electra-Glide like tigers at a goat and herewith present to you the Super Glide, Sonnet on Extravagance. Vital question: is the American motorcyclist ready to ride around on someone else's expression of personal, radical taste?
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Hesketh: A Tragedy In Two Acts (1983)

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A Favorable Riding Impression…
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Hodaka Ace 90 (1966)

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Tom Thumb Titan: Yankee - tailored, built in Japan, the flyweight street - trail Hodaka Ace 90 establishes a blueprint for success in the U. S.
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Honda 350 Four (1973)

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Just when the attention of the motorcycle world was being directed towards the new developments pouring out of several other major manufacturers, Honda sneaks up and unveils its new 350cc four-cylinder road machine—the CB-350 K4.
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Honda 500 V-4 Grand Prix Racer (1979)

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Separating the 32-valve, oval-pistoned fact from the fuel-injected fiction.
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Honda 700 Magna (1987)

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One look tells you everything you don’t need to know.
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Honda 750 (1972)

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One hundred thousand Americans can't be wrong.
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Honda 750 Full Attack Interceptor (1983)

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Under the old Superbike rules, street bikes were hot-rodded into racers with special pieces top to bottom. Under the new 750 Superbike rules, if you want to build a race bike, you'd better build one for the street first. Honda did that. For starters.
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Honda CB1100F (1983)

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Motorcyclists seeking full-measure Superbike performance need no longer bypass Honda dealers.
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Honda CB125 (1980)

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Looks like it's doing 100 mpg when it's standing still.
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Honda CB200 (1974)

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Honda's new CB200 is yet another bike from that firm which bears striking resemblance to its immediate predecessor. In this case the previous bike was the CB175, the latest and biggest of Honda's under-200cc street twins.
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Honda CB350 Four (1972)

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We are again reminded that some motorcycles have an appeal transcending mere numbers: Honda's new 350cc Four is easily the heaviest, most expensive thing in its displacement class, and a list of others capable of doing the standing-start quarter quicker than the Honda would be a lot longer than a tally of those that won't. But there is some indefinable something about this newest Honda that gets people turned-on and lusting after its shiny little carcass.
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Honda CB350G (1973)

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Honda's best seller gets a new disc and more improvements to keep customers coming back for the latest editions.
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Honda CB400F (1976)

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A charmer with few thorns, Honda's smallest four is big on personality.
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