A road racing Harley Davidson motorcycle? Yes indeed. In 1994 Harley Davidson introduced the VR 1000 road racing motorcycle and while the reasons for this bike are many Harley Davidson realized the street bike motorcycle market was changing due to Japanese Super bikes and Harley needed a race bike for the race track which would lead into technological advancements for Harley Davidson motorcycles rode on public streets. The old saying is "race and win on Sunday, sell on Monday" still holds true. The VR 1000 Harley Davidson motorcycle made its debut at America's most prestigious road race----the 1994 Daytona 200 mile (322 km) Super bike class. Unfortunately for Harley Davidson it wasn't a fairy tale debut as the bike was off the pace and then blew up. Five years later the VR 1000 had yet to achieve significant success despite swallowing vast amounts of money and development time. To comply with AMA Super bike racing rules that state a limited number of a company's competing motorcycles must be produced and offered to the public Harley Davidson motorcycle did offer a limited number of the VR 1000 for sale to the public. If you are the owner of a VR 1000 you have a piece of Harley Davidson history sitting in your garage.