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“Right now, it’s all Harley-Davidson,” said Campbell, who rides an Ultra Classic 2003 Centennial model.

Campbell said unwavering loyalty to the Harley-Davidson brand is the norm in the outlaw biker world.

Harley riders are so loyal that former Satan’s Choice president Bernie Guindon of Oshawa named his son Harley Davidson.

Bikers like to note that the Harley-Davidson brand has been proudly American since it was started up by two brothers in a wooden shed in Milwaukee in 1903.

Many early outlaw bikers were introduced to motorcycles while serving in the military.

Most of the 20,000 motorcycles used by the U.S. military in the First World War were Harley-Davidsons. The U.S. military used some 90,000 Harley-Davidsons during the Second World War.

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Shares of Harley-Davidson fell as much as 2 per cent after Trump’s tweet, before rallying to near even by the middle of the day.

Around the middle of the last century, the company’s American-outlaw image made for a stark contrast to rival Honda, whose motorcycles were portrayed in ads as a clean, nice alternative. In 1959, the Japanese manufacturer only sold 1,700 bikes in the U.S. By 1970, after Harley-Davidson had become the highway’s bad boy, Honda was selling 500,000. Other overseas competitors also began piling into the stateside market.

Harley-Davidson executed a skilful identity change in the 1970s that would eventually help refurbish its image in bold red, white and blue strokes, highlighted by a special edition bike