was born in Norway on 19th April, 1877. When Ole was five years old, his family emigrated to the United States and settled in Cambridge, Wisconsin. There he met another  gasoline-sniffing pioneer, Arthur Davidson, who lived on his grandmother´s farm. Ole was four years older than Arthur Davidson and considerably more worldly. He had worked in machine-shops in Madison, Pittsburgh and Chicago. Nights he studied books on gasoline engineering and soon he began experimenting. Since 1914 Harley-Davidson has given credit to Evinrude for helping our heroes get a start, usually with their carburetor. Evinrude´s roller tappets and his oil routing system to the crankpin are still used on Harley-Davidson Engines today.