I just made a list of all mine last night. All but 3 of them I have been to.
Personally, farthest one for me, from MA, is HI-just aquired.
Bottom of the contiguous US, Key West.
Northern most HD dealership (continental)-Plourde's, Caribou, ME
I have 3 from overseas-one from Belgium, from a dealership now closed, one from The Netherlands, and one from Hungary. But, a friend of mine got those for me while traveling for work. I keep them in my collection, but dont count them as visits. Although, I will never get to them (not that I think anyway).
I collect Harley T-Shirts instead.
Have over 155 from around the world.
New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, France, India, Nova Scotia, and all over the USA and Canada.
Anyone else collect them? I bought my Harley about a year ago, a week later my brother on the other side of the country bought one so we traded chips. That got me in to collecting them. Luckily I travel for a living so it makes it easy to hit a dealer every time I'm in a new town. I also like to get chips from dealers with some kind of history.
So far I have almost 50 chips, here are some of the cool ones:
Oldest dealer - Kegel - Rockford, IL
Oldest West coast dealer - Dudly-Perkins, San Francisco
Harley Corporate office
Harley Museum
Harley factory - Menomonee Falls - Powertrain ops
Harley factory - Kansas City - Vehicle and Powertrain ops
Southern most dealer in the US - Big Island Harley, Kona, HI
The franchisee with multiple dealers also has one in Billerica, MA that I hope to get to some day.
There is also one more HD factory outside of Philadelphia that I plan to get to in June.
All in all it's been fun to visit these dealers and see the making/history of the bikes and HD brand.
Anyone else collect chips in their travels or as a token of your travels?
They make frames with precut mats in HD colors to display your collections on the wall. It looks cool.
I like the idea of riding to get chips, but some are nice to have, like the one my son sent me from Germany when he was stationed over there..
My brother and I rode to all 9 of the dealerships in the state were we live (WV) and I made up a plaque for them. It was a good a reason as any to take a ride.
The display pieces for them are expensive, which is unfortunate..... I try to get the "full color" chips but not all dealers have them. Here's the ones I have with legs.
03-19-2021, 10:55 AM
