Every country in the world considers their own motorcycle industry to be the most important in the world of motorcycling and many of those claims have some validity, while stopping short of being definitive. America has its own completely distinctive motorcycle history but, as so often happens, reality and truth often give way to hearsay, conjecture, and inaccuracy. That’s not to say that American motorcycle history is uninteresting or not relevant to global motorcycling history and, here, we’ll attempt to educate, inform, and correct some of the more common myths while celebrating a long and distinguished story, so you can impress your friends!