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Harley Magic -
DVD
2005 / Duke Media -
Lear
Media
Length: 55 minutes
Millions of
words have been written and miles of film made about the
Harley Davidson motorcycle,
but this is the first serious attempt to try and define that
Harley Magic. The DVD goes
on the road with Harley riders in the USA, cruising the back
roads of California and on the surf line of Daytona Beach,
Florida.
 The producers show the many
facets to the legend including retracing racing history that
saw
Harley Davidson slowly lose its lead to faster and lighter
foreign motorcycles. Interestingly enough, to keep the Harley
crowds at the racetrack clever organizers arranged a title
where only Harley Davidson motorcycles can enter, and a
particular model at that.
It's this part of the DVD where
the viewer realizes that the British producers not only bring
that dry sense of English humor to the documentary, but also
an awe and freshness to the world that is Harley which seems
missing from other DVD's. It's not even that Lear Media has to
prove their love of motorcycles, owning a media library which
boasts twenty-eight documentaries spanning decades of history.
There's 170
mph action from the dragstrips, and many, many Harley classics
spotlighted along with them the men that helped create that
Harley Magic. Interviews with top custom men such as Arlen
Ness, Rick Doss and John Reed along with their outrageous
customized machines. And in an exclusive interview with Willie
G Davidson, grandson of one of the company founders and chief
stylist, the tale of how Harley survived some lean years to
become the motorcycling phenomenon of the 90s is told.
Although this was
transferred from it's 2003 original version without any
extra's it's still one of this reviewers favorite DVD's in the
collection.
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