1998 - 2002

On December 30, 1998, five years of planning, financing, designing, engineering, and marketing culminated in the shape of the first production bike, #00001. Staying true to the emphasis on heritage, #00001 was immediately delivered to the Excelsior-Henderson Heritage Museum in the lobby of the Belle Plaine headquarters. 

The Super X was built from December 1998 through August 12, 1999. In all, there were less than 2000 Super X motorcycles built.

Excelsior-Henderson ceased production in September 1999 and filed for bankruptcy court protection in December 1999. Excelsior-Henderson emerged from bankruptcy under the supervision of a group of investors called E-H Partners. Proclaiming to bring Excelsior-Henderson back to full production, they instead brought the company back into bankruptcy, and it would never emerge again. In 2002, Swift Motorcycles, an Arizona-based custom motorcycle manufacturer purchased all of the remaining assets from E-H Partners. Swift has expressed no interest in manufacturing Excelsior-Henderson motorcycles.

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This history was collected from the 1999 Super X Rider's Handbook, as published by the Excelsior-Henderson Motorcycle Manufacturing Company.