

Less than five years ago, the market was clamoring for anything with a big displacement American V-Twin and loud pipes. Creativity, craftsmanship, and accountability are all vital parts of the AIH corporate culture. The attention to detail, constant focus on quality control and craftsmanship is amazing and systemic. The in-house engineering and manufacture of hundreds of custom parts, including seats, fork legs, triple trees, brake calipers, tanks, sheet metal, and the use of multiple CNC machines, elevates American IronHorse above the host of by-the-numbers assemblers of someone else’s parts. The garage production facility is now a modern and efficient 224,000-square-foot factory that houses engineering, design, product development, parts manufacturing, paint, powdercoating, engine assembly and production, all under one roof. In the 11 years since those humble beginnings, AIH has come a long, long way.
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Photograph by Cordero Studios/ With the vision of creating a new breed of custom motorcycle, long before the days of TV celebrity bike builders, American IronHorse started in a Fort Worth, Texas garage. Rakish and ready to ride, this is the 2007 American IronHorse Slammer. Sleek, powerful, beautiful and sexy, they draw admiring attention at every stop. From the midst of ordinary bikes, the motorcycles of AmericanIronHorse stand out. Like the Amer-ican Quarter Horse, the motorcycles of American IronHorse are function-bred and well suited for their task. The perfect extension of this cowboy/biker metaphor is embodied in the Texas stable that turns out some of the best modern-day, steel ponies around-American IronHorse. This very real sense of the modern biker as the inheritor of the cowboy spirit and tradition is powerfully seductive. on among us has not felt a kinship with the American West cowboy heroes of yesteryear? Who has not longed to just jump on his steed, ride off and feel the wind in his face, experience wide open spaces and revel in the lack of stress and pressure-to have the freedom to just get out and go yondering? As I sit in the office or gaze out the window on a rainy day, I imagine that I can hear the steed in the garage calling me to saddle up, wanting the ride as much as I do.

Help others decide what the perfect BDL belt drive or GMA brake kit will look like on their bike! By sending us photos of your ride you are allowing us to share these pictures with our customers. Whether it’s stock, mild or wild we will share it on the new “ Riders Gallery” addition to our website. Love your ride? Proud of your bike? Want to show off your custom creation? Send us a (various) quality photos showing one of our BDL belt drive kits or GMA line of brakes on your machine and we will post it on our website. Look for new and exciting changes in the very near future!

The latest member of the Belt Drives, LTD. Be sure to check out the GMA by BDL line of motorcycle brakes and controls.

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