The World’s Rare Motorcycles

 

This article features two rare yet very well known vintage motorcycles.

Indian Motorcycles go as far back as 1901. This was the time that people like Henry Ford and Ransom E. Olds were trying to perfect their automobiles. The company was first named the Hendee Manufacturing Company but was renamed the Indian Motorcycle Manufacturing Company in 1928. The Hendee Manufacturing Company actually manufactured bicycles back in 1897.

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