1993 April American Motorcyclist Magazine Hometown Hero Roger Reiman Kenawee IL

Description: Yes we combine shipping for multiple purchases.Add multiple items to your cart and the combined shipping total will automatically be calculated. 1993 April American Motorcyclist Magazine Hometown Hero Roger Reiman Kenawee IL ON THE COVERRemember your first bike? MarkMederski, AMA vice president ofmembership, has fond memoriesof his—a 1963 Honda Dream.Other AMA members tell oftheir first-bike experiences start-ing on page 33. Photo by MiriamMederski.On the RoadAgainThe AMA/Dunlop EliteTouring SeriesTours and DetoursTips for road-ridingin ’93Hometown HeroRoger Reiman is stillthe talk of his townMy First BikeRemember when youwere youngYellow PagesMotorcycling’s telephonedirectoryGreg HarrisonDear Abby Esq.Ed YoungbloodGetting startedPost EntryAwarenessTop GearTwin peeksAMA NewsGet the factsGovernmentIn the Senate andthe AMARoadWig Warn VillageSportRed-Hot RookieClassics1957 NSU Super maxRoger Reiman is still the talk ofhis townThe Harley-Davidson dealershipon the edge of the businessdistrict of Kewanee, Illinois,looks pretty much like any other Har-ley shop in the American heartland.There’s the familiar orange-and-black sign out front and parking spacefor maybe a dozen motorcycles. Theshowroom contains only a single newHarley, although there’s plenty ofempty space where others would bedisplayed if Harley dealers weren’t sell-ing nearly every bike they can get thesedays. On the wall are a few jackets andT-shirts from Harley’s MotorClothescollection and the usual chrome acces-sories. In a roped-off corner rests anold Harley hillclimber.Behind the parts counter, there’s aguy sporting a Harley shirt and a fullhead of gray hair. He’s the owner. He’salso the parts manager, the servicemanager, the chief mechanic, the salesmanager and the cashier. But you mightknow him better as the winner of theDaytona 200 in 1961, ’64 and ’65.He’s Roger Reiman, and his shop inthis small northern Illinois town maybe the only place on earth where youcan buy a motorcycle and have it serv-iced by a three-time Daytona cham-pion.Reiman is the biggest celebrity Ke-wanee has ever had. When he returnedhome from his first Daytona victory,after a quick side trip to New York toappear on NBC’s "Today” show, Kew-anee residents greeted him with a pa-rade and gave him a key to the city-When he scored his second Daytonavictory in 1964, then went on to winthe AMA’s Grand National Cham-pionship, the town threw a banquet inhis honor.As a racer, Reiman became a na-tional celebrity. But he never left thelittle town where he grew up; nevergave up his key to the city. When heretired from full-time racing in theearly 1970s, he stayed with the Harleydealership his family had startedecades earlier. Motorcycles—Par"Ocularly Harley-Davidson motorcy'cles—have always been his life. They... And much more! 12658

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