Harley-Davidson says it will restore the rust-encrusted motorcycle that washed ashore on a beach in Canada in a storage container that floated across the Pacific following the March 2011 tsunami, and return the bike to its owner.

Posted May 03, 2012, at 8:01 a.m. YORK, Pa. — For a look at what’s to come for Harley-Davidson Inc., the best place to start is the company’s largest motorcycle factory, where change has been described as “leaning into a hurricane.”

One of the first pieces of debris to surface after Japan#39;s tsunami last year, the motorcycle swam 4,000 miles to safety.

A motorcycle that washed ashore on B.C.#39;s west coast may have drifted across the Pacific after being carried out to sea by last year#39;s devastating Japanese tsunami, Canada#39;s CBC television reported.

An amateur beachcomber stumbled upon a remarkable find along an isolated British Columbia beach recently: A motorcycle, which apparently floated across the ocean. The man found the back end of a white box truck, and inside, he found a rusty Harley Davidson with license plates from Japan’s Miyagi Prefecture – an area hard hit by the 2011 tsunami. Peter Mark, the man who found the bike, said his ...