Harley fans and owners from around the world are invited to attend the largest birthday party in history, Harley-Davidson’s 100th Anniversary. It will also be the world’s largest motorcycle rally with up to 1,000,000 people and 500,000 motorcycles expected to invade Milwaukee during the last week in August 2003.

Every motorcyclist wants an excuse to ride and what better reason could there be than to ride across the USA “home” to Milwaukee. Four routes have been organised from starting from Portland, Las Vegas, Baton Rouge and Washington D.C. (www.harley-davidson.com).

The Fat Boy sculpture will be travelling with 1,000s of Harleys across the north eastern United States from Washington D.C.

The sculpture will be transported on the back of an open flat bed truck starting at Washington Harley-Davidson in Washington D.C. on August 21st and stopping at Harley dealers in Harrisburg (August 21st/22nd), Buffalo (August 23rd/24th/ 25th), Dearborn (August 25th/26th), Michigan City (August 26th/27th) and arriving in Milwaukee on August 27th where it will be displayed in State Fair Park until August 31st

Its journey will, however, begin in the UK when it embarks on an historic road tour starting at the foundry in Braintree, Essex and on to the Ace Café with 100+ Harleys including celebrity Harley owners. It will then travel on the Tate Modern Gallery at South Bank, London where it will be unveiled prior to leaving the UK by ship for Baltimore.