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The Official Web Site of
The Roanoke Valley
Harley Owners Group

HOG Hall
Roanoke Valley Harley-Davidson
1925 Peters Creek Road
Roanoke, Virginia 24017

Sponsored By
Roanoke Valley
Harley-Davidson

STORE HOURS
Tuesday - Friday
9:00am to 6:00 pm
Saturday
8:00 am to 5:00 pm
Closed Sundays and Mondays

Beginning in 1920 a team that consistently won races had a hog, a pig, as their mascot. Following a win, they would put the pig (a real one) on the back of their Harley and take a victory lap A photo of the pig is also on their website. In 1983, an organization was formed, taking advantage of the long-standing nickname by turning "hog" into the acronym H.O.G., for Harley Owners Group.
Harley-Davidson attempted to trademark "hog," but in 1999 ultimately lost the case, with the appellate panel ruling that "hog" had become a generic term for large motorcycles, and is therefore unprotectable as a trademark. Thus the H.O.G. tradition began.