us wwII motorcycles

Yes, manufactured by Harley - Davidson and Indian.
I don't know what kits are avaliable but I know there are some.

yes the us did use bikes in ww2,they where harlys or bsas and the odd norten i belive,as to who makes kites try tamiya. hope this be of help.

gdarwin

Italeri does, amongst others, a 1:9 Harley Davidson Liberator.

http://www.italeri.com/articolo2.asp?ProCodice=7401&ProDescrizione=U%2ES%2E+Army+WW+II+Motorcycle

http://www.hannants.co.uk/search/?FULL=IT7401

Tamiya make a 1.35th Harley with with a MP
any bigger look at the links above

Italeri also did a 1/35 Harley .... many years ago. Haven't seen that kit in some time.

I also have two 1/72 scale Harleys that came in a couple of my jeep kits. :-) They are so small, I can't even get pics of them! I'll keep trying and maybe someday, I'll get some worth posting.

It was Harley's production to govt standards and ability to maintain higher production numbers that put them over the top in the batle with Indian. After the war, Indian produced bikes for a few more years in Springfield MA (just up the street from work) then folded in the early 50's. The old Indian Motocycle (NOT motorcycle) plant is now apartments but the museum is still here.
The other guys are right about the 1/35 scale, tam and Italeri both have/had these.

Imai did a few in 1/12 scale, they are getting rare now as they company gone under and Aoshima who bought all their molds hasn't released any Bike kits yet.

Harley davidson and a few indians thrown in for good measure I am sure the brits had theirs as well

My Italeri's US WWII Motorcycle 1:9 (Esci's the original mold producer) is now under construction. It'll be shown in my next page (19 C) in about a month. ;-)

QUOTE: Originally posted by ajlafleche It was Harley's production to govt standards and ability to maintain higher production numbers that put them over the top in the batle with Indian. After the war, Indian produced bikes for a few more years in Springfield MA (just up the street from work) then folded in the early 50's. The old Indian Motocycle (NOT motorcycle) plant is now apartments but the museum is still here. The other guys are right about the 1/35 scale, tam and Italeri both have/had these.

Indian couldn't sustain production because most police departments used Indians, not HD. Indian did make several models for the Army though mostly 45 CID flatheads (side valve). As a matter of record Indian shut it's doors in 1952 and the NYPD paid for them to reopen and build them new bikes in 1953! Indian was playing with things that were decades ahead of their time my father's 1943 Indian Army had SHAFT DRIVE as did the Indian 442 which also had an inline 4 cylander engine mounted longitudanally. Indian's spring girder front suspension was also superior to HD's springer, a point my dad proved doing Turkey Scrambles (off road rallies) on a '47 Chief!

Indian Motorcycles are back in production (i think) heres the link http://www.indianmotorcycles.com/

heres a site with Miltary motorbikes on http://www.dropbears.com/bikelinks/military_motorcycles.htm

Correct CC, they are back in business and making some sweet looking bikes!

Hello
I thinks you can found some US motorcycles to any curent scales ( 1/35th , 1/48th , 1/72nd ) to Propaganda Kompany
They got 3 1/35th differents US motorcycles, like HD WLA 45 , Indian 340B side, or solo US Navy.
Jap , British and Russian to ...
For the 1/48th , it's more than 40 differents "motos" and to the 1/72nd scale , it's 22 models

The Website is http://propaganda.kompany.free.fr/
Hope this Help

Marc Le Bayon

Thanks for the link Marc, and welcome to FSM.

welcome marc. testors also has a WW2 'cycle in army con fig. (the navy used them too). It is in 1/9th.

thanks guys. i found one on ebay to. i have a good idea for a diroma build.. have you seen the prices for the new idians. thier not cheap. i found one at the motrobike shop that i go to and it just running a cool $ 30,000.00 for it heck for that i could get a nice full equiped truck..