September
Wednesday, 15th,  Club Meeting
7pm for a  7:30pm Start – 9:00pm Finish
Highway 31, 743-745 Sydney Road, Brunswick,
Victoria, 3056, Australia (map)

Saturday 18th, Harley City Museum Open Day
770 Sydney Road, Brunswick, Victoria, 3056, (map)

October
Saturday 2nd Club Membership Renewal Day & Club Photo 
it's also our 18th Birthday
It will be great opportunity to renew your club membership
and be apart of the annual club photo.
Club barbeque and birthday cake at Harley City  
2:00 - 5:00pm

Sunday 3 rd, Club Ride Nugge
Departing Harley City at 9:30am
770 Sydney Road, Brunswick, Victoria, 3056, (map)
Road Captain  ( Alex )

Saturday 16th, Harley City Museum Open Day
770 Sydney Road, Brunswick, Victoria, 3056, (map)

Wednesday, 20 th,  Club Meeting
7pm for a  7:30pm Start – 9:00pm Finish
Highway 31, 743-745 Sydney Road, Brunswick,
Victoria, 3056, Australia (map)

November
Open Day November 6th
Guys and Girls we are giving you plenty of notice to
express your interest and get on a ride for Harley City's
next open day. Get a chance to ride your dream machine
before you purchase one, try other Harley Families
and enjoy the festivities of the day.
As always we will have the following
-Accessories and Merchandise Specials
-Sausage Sizzle  -Door Prizes
And much, much more
for enquiries or to be put on the call list for demo ride
please email sales@harleycity.com.au or call (03) 9385033

Sunday 7th, Club Mystery Ride
Departing Harley City at 9:30am
770 Sydney Road, Brunswick, Victoria, 3056, (map)
Road Captain  ( Mark )

Wednesday, 17 th,  Club Meeting
7pm for a  7:30pm Start – 9:00pm Finish
Highway 31, 743-745 Sydney Road, Brunswick,
Victoria, 3056, Australia (map)

Saturday 20th, Harley City Museum Open Day
770 Sydney Road, Brunswick, Victoria, 3056, (map)

December

Sunday 12th, Geelong Toy Run

2011 will be the 75th anniversary of the Knucklehead
engine which powered the Harley Davidson motorcycle
from 1936 to 1947.

David Sanderson (Sando) and Kendal Maroney
in conjunction with the Brunswick HOG and Harley City
have planned a fantastic weekend in March 2011 to
celebrate this landmark event with the hope that all owners of
models for the years 1936 – 1947 will participate.
As we go to press, final arrangements are being made which
include an evening event in Melbourne on Friday March 4th
with rides over the weekend to and around Milawa in
North East Victoria culminating in spectacular grand finale
dinner on the Sunday night. The event will be based at
Milawa on the Saturday and Sunday nights.
Invitations to participate will be sent out shortly to known
Knucklehead owners but if you happen to have an old Knuckle
in the back of the shed please ensure you contact
Sando or Kendal to make sure you
are included on the list.

Accommodation at Milawa is limited to those people
keen to lock in their rooms early.

 

Why so formal? Part I
by Maria Schoeberl, Archivist

When viewing early images of Harley-Davidson riders, their clothing
always stands out. Instead of the black leather, jeans,bandanas and
safety helmets of today, riders in the first decades of the 20th
century wore very different clothing: Three-piece suits, shirts
with starched collars, flowing scarves, long skirtsand no helmets.
To our eyes, they look conventional and completely non-rebellious.

This image seems to clash with the spirit of Harley-Davidson motorcycle
riders, who pride themselves on their individuality and spirit of
rebellion--something that is reflected in their clothing.
Why then, do early motorcycle riders seem to dress
so conservatively and traditionally?

The reason has to do with the solid business sense of the early
Harley-Davidson Motor Company. In any business, for a company
to succeed, it must consistently appeal to the broadest segment
of the population that it can. his is naturally even more
important for a new and growing company, such as
Harley-Davidson was in the 1910s and 1920s. And,
because the early motorcycle companies were all marketing a
relatively new and untried product one that was not yet identified
with the individualist, the rebel and the adventure seeker)
Harley-Davidson and other motorcycle companies appealed to the needs
and conventions of the majority of Americans.

To do so, they reached out to the business owner who needed a way
to serve customers more quickly and efficiently, the city dweller
who needed a quick and easy way to get away for the weekend, as well
as the average worker who needed an affordable means of transportation
that was faster and offered more freedom than the streetcar or sidewalk.
And appealing to the interests of the "mainstream" meant presenting an
image of the early rider that reflected the conventions of dress at
the time. This meant the suit of the businessman and office worker,
the neat and practical uniforms of the delivery workers,
as well as the elegant, "Sunday-best" traveling outfits worn by
vacationersand day-trippers.

This was, after all, an era where the conservative and impeccable was
considered the only proper way to present oneself to the public. Indeed,
at the turn of the century it was considered indecent for a women not to be
wearing stockings or showing bare arms in anything but formal evening wear.
So riders in the 1910s, 1920s, and early 1930s wore what was considered
"proper" clothing: Suits (for both women and men), shirts with high-buttoned
collars, neckties, fashionable hats and skirts for the women who were all
too often relegated to the sidecar.
But was the clothing really all that conventional?