davidson and bill harley decided they wanted to motor harley icycle and bill by that point being an accomplished draftsman actually early e drawings of this engine. you can kind of see the date down there in the right corner. 1901.uly of the little bicycle engine. there are two sheets, we only one but it's miraculous that we only have one, so they a local ing with machine shop and local foundries, made this engine. it in a bicycle. fun, we that's really think, and decided to make a full fledged motorcycle. sort of the foundation of the harley-davidson motor company there. >> this story really could only milwaukee.ed in if you think back to the 20th century, he milwaukee was known as the world.e shop of the this was a real kind of manufacturing center. kind of grewg guys up in the city where people made things. hey brewed beer, which is one f the things that made milwaukee famous. this was kind of the leather tanneries, e, foundries, machine shops and as this was part , their environment, and they arthur and harley were bicyclists. they said, we're that city where they make things. decided we're