- Professional show quality restoration completed for 2010 Newport
Concours d'Elegance. Absolutely stunning!
- Engine No: 1122
- Fondly known and advertised as the “Gentleman's Machine."
- Manufactured from 1909 to 1915.
- Leather Troxel Mfg Co. Seat from Elyria, OH
- First year of the signature horizontal cylinder cooling fins
- 61 CI air-cooled V-twin engine
- The Watt Mfg Co. Columbia Model H headlight from Chicago, IL
- Bosh magneto ignition
- Heitger carburetor
The Yale motorcycle was built by the Consolidated Manufacturing Company in
Toledo, Ohio, after they acquired the rights to the California motorcycle.
George Wyman’s 50-day ride across the U.S. in 1903 on a California was the first such journey by
any motor vehicle. The owners of the California Motor Company thought it was a perfect
time to sell out and made a deal with the Consolidated Manufacturing Company. There
were copyright issues with the California name, so the brand name was changed to
Yale-California. The first Yale was identical to the California, but in 1906, it revealed
a much-improved design.