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25 Motorcycles Every Black Man Dreamed of Owning in the 1970s

Do you remember the sound that made your whole block stop what they were doing and turn toward the street? Not a car engine. Something sharper, something rawer, something that vibrated in your chest before your eyes even found it. A motorcycle, chrome catching the afternoon sun, engine cracking the air like thunder, ridden by a man sitting so far back in the seat it looked like the machine was carrying him on a throne. In the 1970s, motorcycles meant something different in black America than they did anywhere else. They were not about weekend leisure or midlife crisis. They were rebellion, freedom, identity, and pure unfiltered cool, all balanced on two wheels. Black motorcycle clubs like the East Bay Dragons in Oakland, the Chosen Few in Los Angeles, and Black Sabbath MC in San Diego built entire subcultures around machines that mainstream America never associated with black men. Harley dealerships in some cities refused to sell to black riders, so brothers bought Kawasakis and Hondas instead, turning Japanese imports into symbols of defiance. Other men saved for years, walked into those same dealerships anyway, and rode out on the Harleys they were told they did not deserve. Every machine on this list carried a story of ambition, resistance, and the particular kind of freedom that comes from controlling your own direction at seventy miles per hour with nothing between you and the wind. Here are 25 motorcycles every black man dreamed of owning in the 1970s.