Motorcycle mailboxes can be created in a garage

In 1903, 21-year old William S. Harley and 20-year old Arthur Davidson made available to the public the first production Harley-Davidson motorcycle. The bike was built to be a racer. The factory in which they worked was 10 x 15-foot wooden shed with the words "Harley-Davidson Motor Company" crudely scrawled on the door. Many great companies were started in a garage, for example HP and Apple. Motorcycle mailboxes can be created in a garage also.

motorcycle mailbox and old motorcycle laws

The motorcycle, built in 1884 by an Englishman named Edward Butler, looked pretty silly. It had three wheels, not two, and was really just a tricycle with a motor. Nevertheless, people were afraid of Butler's motorcycle, so afraid that they asked the government to pass laws against the new machine. One law said that there must always be three people on a motorcycle. Another said that a man with red flag must run ahead of the motorcycle, waving the flag and yelling to warn people that a motorcycle was coming. The old motorcycle mailboxes can look ridicule, but not so ridicule like such laws.

A motorcycle inventor and motorcycle mailbox

A steam velocipede built by inventor Sylvester H. Roper in 1857 may be the earliest known motorcycle. The coal fire steam engine unit is a part of a specially built chassis than an add-on and had no pedal crank. While Roper's two-wheeled inventions never found commercial success, his innovations provided inspiration and direction for inventors in the gas-powered motorbike ear at the turn of the century. Significant later were invented other products. such as a motorcycle mailbox, that can be associated with motorcycles.

Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and motorcycle mailboxes

Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in 2005 marked the 65-th anniversary. This famous bike event attracts about 600000 visitors and participants. Looking at this event, I was interested, how many between these 600000 people, may have a motorcycle mailbox.

A geographical market of motorcycle mailboxes.

Motorcycle are popular in many counties, for example in Japan. Few outside Japan are aware of the scale or duration of Japan's motorcycle industry, which comprised roughly 200 manufacturers in 1955. For decades, a crown jewel of Japan's postwar manufacturing industry, motorcycles remain one of Japan's top exports.
But the main market of motorcycle mailboxes - USA. Just few of them were sold to Europe and none to Japan.

Motorcycle races and motorcycle mailboxes

Daimler's motor-bicycle of 1885 could reach 12 m. p. h. Britain lagged behind France and Germany in the development of racing at first but in 1907 Brooklands was opened and the first Tourist Trophy race in the Isle of Man was held. International competition was organized by the Fédération Internationale des Clubs Motor-cyclistes (FIM). Speedway racing was introduced into Britain from America in the 1920s and a league started in 1929. After considerable vicissitudes, it is now re-established and organized by the Speedway Control Board. The popularity of motorcycle races increased the motorcycles popularity, correspondingly people started to buy other motorcycle products, as, for example, motorcycle mailboxes.

A motorcycle mailbox as a motorcycle object.

Anybody who likes motorcycles would interested in books about motorcycles and other objects that can be connected with motorcycles, as cups, shirts or motorcycle mailboxes.

Here is a good info regarding one motorcycle book: "The Spirit of the Motorcycle" is the first pop culture history of motorcycling in North America, featuring great large-format photography of stunning vintage and current motorcycles and rare archival photographs, historical images, brochures, artwork, advertisements, and collectibles."

Unfortunately we don't have such good info regarding motorcycle mailboxes.

The motorcycle mailboxes advertising.

In 1961, Honda began a major advertising campaign using the slogan: “Nifty, Thrifty, Honda Fifty.” The campaign placed the Honda 50 in the spotlight as a motorcycle that appeals to both men and women by its design. Honda had great success with this motorcycle that sold for a reasonable $250.00.
By December 1962, the American Honda plant sold more than 40,000 motorcycles annually. Honda realized that in order for sales to keep increasing, they would have to keep changing the public perception of motorcycles. The advertising campaign: “You meet the nicest people on a Honda,” blanketed the country and changed the American perception of motorcycles forever.
Motorcycle mailboxes followed the motorcycles popularity. But we need to think about a slogan for the motorcycle mailboxes advertising campaign.