Saxon Motorcycles Europe is excited, the owners: “Scandinavia is an ultimate motor area, it is fantastic to have a professional dealer in Denmark and in the future in Sweden.” says Rinke Andringa, owner of Saxon Motorcycles Europe. “These dealers will be able to communicate the feeling of freedom and fun of our beautiful American custom bikes” adds Frank Vermeulen.

Scandinavia is an important motorcycle market. The beautiful landscape and winding roads create the perfect opportunity to ride a bike and feel the freedom of it. The tough charisma of the Saxon bikes can only increase the pleasure. The Saxon models, Warlord, Firestorm and Henchman are factory build motorcycles that are custom build for the consumer, with an extreme, stylish image. At the same time, these bikes drive very comfortably.

Saxon Motorcycles Europe has obtained the European Type Approval in February 2007 for the models Firestorm and Warlord. The approval for the new model, the Henchman, is planned in November 2008.

The motorcycles are approved in conformity with the strict European standards on safety, emission and sound. Therefore all bikes of Saxon Motorcycles Europe are “road legal” and can be put on license by the dealers in every country of the European Union (EU).

Xtreme Machines and Tailormade V-Twin will be presenting Saxon on the Scandinavian Custom Show in Copenhagen on the 31st of October till the 2nd of November.

General information about Saxon Motorcycles Europe and their models can be found on the internet www.SaxonMotorcycles.eu or on www.x-m.dk.

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Harley-Davidson attracts a loyal brand community, with licensing of the Harley-Davidson logo accounting for almost 5% of the company’s net revenue ($41 million in 2004).

The Motor Company supplies many American police forces with their motorcycle fleets.

The Buell Motorcycle Company became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Harley-Davidson in 2003, the same year that the Motor Company celebrated its 100th birthday.

The classic Harley-Davidson engines are two-cylinder, V-twin engines with the pistons mounted in a 45° “V”. The crankshaft has a single pin, and both pistons are connected to this pin through their connecting rods.

This design causes the pistons to fire at uneven intervals, the consequence of an engineering tradeoff to create a large, powerful engine in a small space. This design choice is entirely vestigial from an engineering standpoint, but has been sustained because of the strong connection between the distinctive sound and the Harley-Davidson brand. This design, which is covered under several United States patents, gives the Harley-Davidson V-twin its unique choppy “potato-potato” sound. To simplify the engine and reduce costs, the V-twin ignition was designed to operate with a single set of points and no distributor, which is known as a dual fire ignition system, causing both spark plugs to fire regardless of which cylinder was on its compression stroke, with the other spark plug firing on its cylinder’s exhaust stroke, effectively “wasting a spark.” The exhaust note is basically a throaty growling sound with some popping.

The 45 degree design of the engine thus creates a plug firing sequencing as such: The first cylinder fires, the second (rear) cylinder fires 315° later, then there is a 405° gap until the first cylinder fires again, giving the engine its unique sound.

Harley Davidson has used various ignition systems throughout its history – be it the early points/condenser system, (Big Twin up to 1978 and Sportsters 1970 to 1978), magneto ignition system used on 1958 to 1969 Sportsters, early electronic with centrifugal mechanical advance weights, (all models 1978 and a half to 1979), or the late electronic with transistorized ignition control module, more familiarly known as the black box or the brain, (all models 1980 to present).

With the implementation of Electronic Fuel Injection (EFI), Harley Davidson uses a single fire ignition system on the models equipped with EFI, which now includes 100% of their product line with the introduction of the 2007 models.

In 1991, Harley-Davidson began to participate in the Sound Quality Working Group, founded by Orfield Labs, Bruel and Kjaer, TEAC, Yamaha, Sennheiser, SMS and Cortex. This was the nation’s first group to share research on psychological acoustics. Later that year, Harley-Davidson participated in a series of sound quality studies at Orfield Labs, based on recordings taken at the Talladega Superspeedway, with the objective to lower the sound level for EU standards while analytically capturing the “Harley Sound.” This research resulted in the bikes that were introduced in compliance with EU standards for 1998.

On 1 February 1994, the company filed a trademark application for the distinctive sound of a Harley-Davidson motorcycle engine: “The mark consists of the exhaust sound of applicant’s motorcycles, produced by V-twin, common crankpin motorcycle engines when the goods are in use”. Nine of Harley-Davidson’s competitors filed comments opposing the application, arguing that cruiser-style motorcycles of various brands use a single-crankpin V-twin engine which produce a similar sound. These objections were followed by litigation. After six years, Harley-Davidson withdrew their trademark application.

When Honda first began making a motorcycle with a 45° V-2 design, the Honda Shadow, it used a more advanced engineering approach with an offset crank design featuring dual crankpins, which allows for even firing pulses and higher horsepower because of the reduced vibrational stresses on the engine. Responding to customer demands for a more traditional V-twin, in 1995 Honda rolled out the Shadow A.C.E., a single-crankpin design, with a more traditional exhaust note and feel, but more vibration and less maximum power.

By – Basic Tweak

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