It has not been a good year for start-up motorcycle companies. First Cannon-dale, makers of truly innovative fuel-injected dirtbikes, went nubblies-up. Now the news that after four years of a difficult, fits-and-starts resurrection, the grand old Indian nameplate is, once again, gone. Company officials, lacking the "eight-figure funding" to go on, pulled the plug. As Indian was going under, a book sat on my desk. Just published by Union Hill Press, Riding the American Dream is the story of Excelsior-Henderson Motorcycles, another failed restart of an early American bike. It was penned by company co-founder Dan Hanlon. Now, in the interests of full disclosure, I should point out that Hanlon is not on my Christmas-card list, nor I on his. There was also the time he told a newspaper reporter that given the opportunity, he'd be only too happy to spear me with his car and use me as a life-size hood ornament. Disagreed with something we'd printed, apparently. On that same subject, I'm proud to report that Cycle World is the only moto-mag negatively singled out in his book. Readers are told we "...seemed determined to periodically make something a problem." (Never mind that at the time, Excelsior-Henderson was periodically having problems.)
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机译：对于新兴的摩托车公司来说，这不是一个好年头。真正具有创新性的燃油喷射越野摩托车的制造商First Cannon-dale受到了欢迎。如今，有消息说，经过四年艰难，艰难的复活，古老的印度古老铭牌再次消失了。公司官员缺乏“八位数的资金”来继续进行下去。当印度人快要倒下时，我的桌子上坐着一本书。联合山出版社（Union Hill Press）刚刚出版的《骑着美国梦》讲述了Excelsior-Henderson摩托车的故事，这是美国早期自行车的又一次失败重启。它由公司联合创始人Dan Hanlon撰写。现在，出于全面披露的目的，我应该指出，汉隆不在我的圣诞贺卡名单上，也不在我的圣诞贺卡名单上。还有一次，他告诉报纸记者，如果有机会，他会很高兴以汽车开枪给我，并把我当作真人大小的引擎盖装饰。显然，我们不同意我们印制的东西。在同一主题上，我很自豪地报道《自行车世界》是他书中唯一被否定的摩托车。读者被告知我们“……似乎决心要定期解决一些问题”。 （不要介意，当时Excelsior-Henderson经常遇到问题。）
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