The floods also wiped out many small businesses food and clothing vendors, charcoal sellers and motorcycle mechanics so common to Haitian neighborhood life.
He is pushing Harley into places it has never gone, creating new generations of Hog-heads with its first small, cheap bike in more than 20 years and grabbing riders from rival brands with a radical new motorcycle, the V-Rod, that is Harley's biggest break from tradition in 65 years.