• Why are we members of the FH-DCE?
    Here are a few statements from some of our member clubs
  • The main reason for us (H-DC 't Centrum) to be a member of the FH-DCE is that we can meet friends (who think alike about our joined hobby) not only from our own country, but also from other countries of Europe. So we can travel to each other and party together. We have met already a lot of new friends through the FH-DCE, been to their parties and rallies (also abroad) and a lot of friends from abroad also visited our rally.
    Further more we think that the communication with the H-D factory is importent, as resulted in permitance of using the bar and shield in our logo. And of course the Super Rally and a consistent quality of it is an important item.
    But still our main reason is the friendship among the different clubs that are member of the FH-DCE.
  • Yvonne van Vliet
  • H-DC 't Centrum
  • the Netherlands
     
  • For me the federation will be a brotherhood between all the H-D-bikers and clubs all over europe. Is like a friendship, but not everybody can be really my friend, of course. I see it as a way to help bikers on the road they have problems with the bike or anything else to find a point for help, what ever they need. They can ask help over here president, he can have a look who is in the place there and can organize help.
  • A other thing, i think, are the rules at the moment and in the future. All will be harder and harder. Some comming rules are against the bikes and bikers. So when we are a big european group, we have more wight to vote and more possibilities for have dicussions and some dialogs with the people they are against to the bikes and bikers ( like assurances etc.). We do it in the federation now and that are for me the mean things to be in the federation. Of course, is fine to see all at the yearly presidentmeetings in different countries. There are some friendships and we can have a nice weekend together. We have all the informations from all over europe and if some people organize a trip in a other country, there are connections.
  • The bad thing for me at the federation will be the rules we did make by the federation self. I think we have to attend to make not so much rules for us by us. Our club started to be at the dutch federation in Amsterdam at 1988. In this past time we saw a lot of different things about Harley and rules. We had presidentmeetings they was finished in about 3 hours includly break. Now all will be lots biger and more professional organized. Of corse, it will be a must to hold presidentmeetings like we have at the time.  
  • I think this are the short points to be in the federation. I can write more  over this, but i think this will be the main for me.
  • Wish you a great day and see you soon
  • Bruno Schilling
    H-DC Pängheads of Switzerland
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  • You get a lot of information
  • Free advertising at club magazins
  • Direct links to more than 30.000 H-D riders
  • You support indirect the Fema
  • You receive information of the fema
  • Your club authorised by H-D Motor Co
  • and now the important one's
  • You show others were you stands as a Club,, Not MC - Not HOG but A real Harley-Davidson Club. A real free democratic Club whitout crazy rule's
  • The friendship started many years ago in the 60, this friendship was the start of the later FH-DCE
  • As a member of the FH-DCE a club have the possibility to get friendship from other members but you cannot buy it, you have to work for it.
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  •  Regards
  • Peter Bruel
    H-DC Breda

  • Being part of the FHDCE allows our club to meet new bikers friends from all over Europe and to be informed of all the events happening in different countries. Meeting other european clubs presidents and people from Harley-Davidson to discuss new models/laws/different issues is as well very important for us.
  • Best regards
  •  Walter (Harley-Davidson Club de France
     
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  •  For me it is mostly about people.
  • The Federation gives us the chance to firstly to know other clubs exist and secondly the opportunity to meet with members of these clubs.
  • To give an example; through the Federation we met 'Jimmy the Greek' what a great character then when Hellas was awarded the Super Rally we all said we will go to that because Club Hellas will do a good job and look after us. This off course was correct, great people, great time and super rally.
  • The main point here is that we knew the people, if this had not been the case we probably would never have gone to Greece.
  •   It is great that we get the opportunity to visit new places / countries and experience the host clubs hospitality who are in fact representatives of their country. 
  • This inevitably leads many of us to visit new counties that we may never have gone to if we had not meet some of the guys in the first place.
  •  The Federation brings us out of biking only / mainly in our own countries to travel across all parts of Europe that I for one probably would would never have done so much. It gives us a sense of security in the knowledge that there are people everywhere that are just like ourselves.
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  •  Best regards,
    Kenneth Mackay, H-DC 50
     

  • On the first demand ( why our club is a member of the FHDCE), H-DC Disconnected, Antwerp has the following arguments:
    -    In this manner we are officially recognised by the H-D Company as an officially H-DC
    -    The possibility to fill in  an all year round agenda and visit our “collegue”-clubs from time to time
    -T    he possibility to promote your own events on, nationa and international agenda’s
    -    To search for some kind of brotherhood within FH-DCE member clubs
    -To have a healthy alternative of your club, against your local MC’s or HOG-chapters, mostly the riders are looking for something just in between, and we believe that being a official H-DC is just the right track for us
    Danny, H-DC Disconnected
     
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  •  Our club is a FH-DCE-member because of the personal contacts and the iniciative of our ex-President Rocky (Joan Guasch). He met people from FH-DCE-clubs at several Super rallys and proposed to our club to join the federation. Since we are in the federation we have a lot more international contacts and there are always a lot of people from federation clubs visiting our Rally in Spain every year. We have registered a big difference "before and after" joining the federation, our club had very few international contacs before .  When members of our club are travelling by bike to countries with federation clubs some people contact members of other clubs, ask them question, get infos, get help in different ways. In our club -generally- we are happy to have these contacts. We also give people from other clubs infos when they come to Spain or meet them or invite them to our club house/club place (even when they travel without bikes with their family). We have better  informations what's going on in the club and Harley scene in Europe, before we joined the federation we didn't have a lot of infos (and we didn't care about it).
  •  (*for example we have been  last weekend  at a clubhouse party of ROAD HOGS HDC and we had a really very good weekend there. We never would have gone to this party without the Federation Contacts and at this small, regional party we have seen people from Austria, Germany and even Finland  federation clubs-.. that's the way it should be)
  • Wolfgang, H-DC Catalunia
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