The peripatetic Rogers, 63, who once set a Guinness World Record by riding his motorcycle around the world, brings a lot of credibility to the bull case.
The motorcycle club - the world's largest in terms of membership - has often been linked to organised crime, and is considered an organised crime syndicate by the US Department of Justice.
On view is the world's first motorcycle, the skeletal 1868 Michaux-Perreaux steam velocipede.
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Meanwhile, a team of Yamaha motorcycle designers will attempt to set a world record of their own when they fly their pedal-powered airplane over 75 miles of the Pacific Ocean.
Above the factory floor, the semicircular gallery of the museum showcases the evolution of the Ducati motorcycle from the early days just after World War II, when the company introduced its first auxiliary bicycle engine (called the Cucciolo, or "puppy, " because of the distinctive barking sound it made), up through the company's first motorcycles in the 1950s and the road bikes and racing bikes that followed.
More than a million Splendors are bought yearly, making it the world's largest-selling motorcycle.
Turland spent a month with her leg in plaster after being hit by a motorcycle in Rome in March on her way to the world cross-country championships.
In Utah, a grad student from the University of Denver shattered a world speed record by hitting 216 MPH on a home-built electric motorcycle.
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The 100-year-old motorcycle maker in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, didn't really take off until disengaged World War II veterans came home and took to the road on the powerful macho bikes.
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The motorcycle increased his status, gave him weight, so that people began calling him Uncle and asking his opinion on world affairs, about which he knew absolutely nothing.
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