Cuban Harley owners show off vintage ‘hogs’ still road-worthy through ingenuity, labor of love
Cuban Harley owners show off vintage ‘hogs’ still road-worthy through ingenuity, labor of love
By Associated Press, Updated: Saturday, April 14, 3:52 PM
VARADERO, Cuba — A throaty roar and an ear-splitting siren cut through the balmy sea air of this Cuban resort town as Luis Enrique Gonzalez gunned the engine of his vintage Harley-Davidson Knucklehead, which was a police motorcycle in another life before the 1959 revolution.
“I love everything about it. It’s like my girlfriend,” Gonzalez said, showing off the fire-red bike, a sticker of iconic guerrilla Ernesto “Che” Guevara peeling from the fender. “I love the heat, I love the vibration, I love how it rides. I feel like a plane floating through the clouds.”
Harley-Davidson, the motorcycle brand that says America as much as apple pie or the Super Bowl, also has die-hard fans in communist-run Cuba, and on Saturday they kicked off the island’s first national gathering in honor of the “hog.”
About 70 black-vested Harley owners rumbled into Varadero from across the island this weekend, many riding double with their loved ones, for two days of rock ‘n’ roll, schmoozing, showing off their bikes, and, most important, sharing their mutual obsession with the powerful machines.
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This must make Harley fans pretty revved up about visiting Cuba 
In some ways it is very nice they aren't swarming the place, but I'm sure they'd be welcome
