July 17, 2025 • 6 mins
What do you get when you mix motorcycles, free beer, and a nonstop party? Longhorn Harley-Davidson.
In this episode, host Lacey Gee gets to hang out with the legendary GM Kevin, who’s helped turn a dealership into a lifestyle hub where the engines are loud and the vibes are even louder.
Kevin shares his 14-year journey from sheet metal roofer to Harley-Davidson culture carrier, his family’s generational love for the brand, and why Longhorn isn’t just a store—it’s a destination.
From monthly bike nights to Saturday bashes, discover what makes Longhorn the “coolest place on the planet” and why people show up not just to buy, but to belong. Whether you're a seasoned rider or just Harley-curious, this episode is your backstage pass to the party.
Come for the motorcycles, stay for the stories—and yes, the beer is free.
In this episode, host Lacey Gee gets to hang out with the legendary GM Kevin, who’s helped turn a dealership into a lifestyle hub where the engines are loud and the vibes are even louder.
Kevin shares his 14-year journey from sheet metal roofer to Harley-Davidson culture carrier, his family’s generational love for the brand, and why Longhorn isn’t just a store—it’s a destination.
From monthly bike nights to Saturday bashes, discover what makes Longhorn the “coolest place on the planet” and why people show up not just to buy, but to belong. Whether you're a seasoned rider or just Harley-curious, this episode is your backstage pass to the party.
Come for the motorcycles, stay for the stories—and yes, the beer is free.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Hi, I'm lazyg and I'm here at Longhorn Harley with
the great general manager Kevin, who obviously looks like a
good time and it's a good time time and knows
how to put on a good time. So Kevin, tell
us what kind of cool stuff do you have going
on here at Longhorn? Because it's a blast.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
It's it's a blast, and we've usually we've usually always got.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Something going on.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
That's kind of the cool thing of of a Harley
Davidson dealership. When you come in and turn on the
lights and turn the stereo on, we're usually we're usually
running at this store.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
We're just kind of.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Always busy too, which is great. But we've always got
parties going on. We do bike Nights once a month,
we do big Saturday events once a month, and usually
like all day Saturday is just kind of like a
party anyways, because the Harley Davidson Dealership is the coolest
place on the planet where people just naturally and organically
just go hang out right like it's a grab your
normal power sports store where they sell dirt bikes and
(01:01):
all that kind of stuff. They don't just always have
a party when they open the doors there's not a
there's not a keg of beer flowing. They don't have
bikini bike washes. It it's just more of a people
just come and grab what they want and go. But
at a Harley dealership, you come and you come and
hang out.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
At It's like what they're wanting to turn Target into,
but no one's been able to. But it's been the
rumor for years where you can drink and shop, and
like they want to make that for to make the
shopping experience better.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
But you've already been doing that and I'm doing that.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yes, what my wife says, we're going to Target, I
am out one percent.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I'll go to Target if there's.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
An online order to pick up in the parking lot. Yeah,
like that is my uh, that's my max on that one.
Like I'm out, you know. But a Harley dealership people
come here and half of the people that show up
here throughout the day.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
They're not here to purchase anything.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
They're just here to hang out, be around motorcycles, be
around the culture, and be around other people that are
like minded with them and motorcycling.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Wait a minute, do you mean to tell me, Kevin,
general manager here at Longhorn Harley that it is your
job to pay to put on parties, have a good time,
and your friends come join you and hang out up here,
and you get paid for this for a living. You
are so lucky.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
It's the coolest.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Job in the planet. I've been in this business for
a little over fourteen years. I started as just a
sales guy. So Harley always in my blood growing up.
My dad always had a Harley. In two thousand and seven,
I bought his old motorcycle from him when he bought
a new one. I put one hundred and fifty thousand
miles on it before I got into the Harley business.
It's a natural thing. But yeah, that's that's all we
get to do. We get to ride motorcycles. We get
(02:36):
to have fun with the coolest people on the planet.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Yeah, that is so cool. And Harley people are the
coolest people.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
They really they really are And kind of the coolest
part about it. Whenever I start talking about it, I
get goosebumps. Is it's everyone's space to come play in.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Who you are, where you're from, your background. We have doctors, lawyers,
aim and then we've got people that all they all
they want to do is work so they can so they.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Can pay for their motorcycles.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
So and everyone gets to come and hang out together.
There's millionaires on our floor that do not look like millionaires.
They got scraggly, old, dirty tattoos and a dirty old beard.
But they get to come hang out at the Harley
shop they're in. They're into motorcycling, and that's what it's
really all about.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah, and while you're up here hanging out and having
a good time, the beer is free.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Right. We always have free beer.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
So everything that we do at our store, when we
take a lot of pride in it, it's it's always
it's always free. All of our events always free. There's
free beer flowing as long as as long as we've
got it. Every once in a while we run out.
That's really, that's really it happens.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
You throw a good party, sometimes you run out of
you throw a good party.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Out, we'll run out of you know, when we have
the bar running. We'll run out of whiskey every once
in a while too. But yeah, everything's always free. We
just want you to come hang out and uh, if
you see something that that you like while you're here,
you know, we've got everything. Everything's available for purchase too.
We have a huge motor clothes inventory. We stock over
a million dollars in parts. Our service department is always
running a gun and so we'll maintain your motorcycle as well.
(04:06):
And I think we've got one hundred and twenty five
hundred and forty motorcycles on the ground between new and used.
So full service, easy to access as always in.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
We're I was here for always here for a good time.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
That's amazing. Well, quick question. You said your dad got
you started in Harley.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Is your dad so proud of you?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (04:25):
I mean, look at what made this a career. That's incredible.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
It's pretty cool. It's pretty cool. And when I got
into it, he called me there was a job fair.
So I was in architectural sheet metal. I did sheet
metal roofing systems. My dad was a forty year commercial roofer,
so he just heard an advertisement on the radio and
said they were having a job fair.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Every good sheet.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Metal guy's always got his resume with him. It was like,
if you quit your job on Thursday, your wife will
be really managed to if we don't have a job
on Friday, right, and if you have a resume you're
always worth a little more money than a guy who doesn't.
So I had my resume. I went to a job fair,
quit doing sheet metal. Got into it just a couple
months ago.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
I took a The.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Black I bought for my dad was a nineteen ninety
soft Tail. I took a nineteen ninety soft Tail and
on trade, I was taking pictures of it, and I said,
I found another motorcycle for you.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Within two weeks, he drove up from Florida. They retired
and moved to Florida.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I'm originally from Colorado, so he's got another motorcycle. He
bought a new one from me a couple of years
ago too, so my parents are completely also immersed into
the culture as well. My brother rides a road Glide Limited.
He's built a couple of motorcycles as well, so we're
a motorcycle and family.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
My kids absolutely love it.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
They got a Harley shirt on every other day. My
daughters are eight and ten. Wife's into it.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
We're all into it. It's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
That is awesome, So be sure and come out here
because it's a party all the time. Our friend Kevin
is out here having a good time. Just look at
that sweet lovely face. Come out here see Kevin. Come
see the party that they have going on, and check
out all of their incredible inventory of Harley Davidson.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yeah, we got it all everything, everything a full service
Harley Davidson dealership should have.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
What sets us apart a little bit. We're family owned
and operated.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
We're kind of like the last of the Mohicans of
just families that own dealerships. There's like private equity firms
and big giant car dealerships are buying these things up
like crazy.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
But all of us live local. The owners live local.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
They're on site every day too, so it's a good
place to come hang out at.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Thank you so much, Kevin. Is there anything else that
you would like to tell people?
Speaker 3 (06:15):
So?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Our taglines are fresh air and Freedom. Really big into
fresh air and freedom whatever that means for you.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
We're into it and being family owned and operated.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Thank you so much, Kevin.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Come out to Longhorn, Harley, Come see Kevin from join
the party. Come get a free beer, get a shot,
get a motorcycle.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Thank you so much, Kevinya, you bet awesome. Propot Digital
Hi, I'm lazyg and I'm here at Longhorn Harley with
the great general manager Kevin, who obviously looks like a
good time and it's a good time time and knows
how to put on a good time. So Kevin, tell
us what kind of cool stuff do you have going
on here at Longhorn? Because it's a blast.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
It's it's a blast, and we've usually we've usually always got.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Something going on.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
That's kind of the cool thing of of a Harley
Davidson dealership. When you come in and turn on the
lights and turn the stereo on, we're usually we're usually
running at this store.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
We're just kind of.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Always busy too, which is great. But we've always got
parties going on. We do bike Nights once a month,
we do big Saturday events once a month, and usually
like all day Saturday is just kind of like a
party anyways, because the Harley Davidson Dealership is the coolest
place on the planet where people just naturally and organically
just go hang out right like it's a grab your
normal power sports store where they sell dirt bikes and
(01:01):
all that kind of stuff. They don't just always have
a party when they open the doors there's not a
there's not a keg of beer flowing. They don't have
bikini bike washes. It it's just more of a people
just come and grab what they want and go. But
at a Harley dealership, you come and you come and
hang out.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
At It's like what they're wanting to turn Target into,
but no one's been able to. But it's been the
rumor for years where you can drink and shop, and
like they want to make that for to make the
shopping experience better.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
But you've already been doing that and I'm doing that.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yes, what my wife says, we're going to Target, I
am out one percent.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I'll go to Target if there's.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
An online order to pick up in the parking lot. Yeah,
like that is my uh, that's my max on that one.
Like I'm out, you know. But a Harley dealership people
come here and half of the people that show up
here throughout the day.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
They're not here to purchase anything.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
They're just here to hang out, be around motorcycles, be
around the culture, and be around other people that are
like minded with them and motorcycling.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Wait a minute, do you mean to tell me, Kevin,
general manager here at Longhorn Harley that it is your
job to pay to put on parties, have a good time,
and your friends come join you and hang out up here,
and you get paid for this for a living. You
are so lucky.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
It's the coolest.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Job in the planet. I've been in this business for
a little over fourteen years. I started as just a
sales guy. So Harley always in my blood growing up.
My dad always had a Harley. In two thousand and seven,
I bought his old motorcycle from him when he bought
a new one. I put one hundred and fifty thousand
miles on it before I got into the Harley business.
It's a natural thing. But yeah, that's that's all we
get to do. We get to ride motorcycles. We get
(02:36):
to have fun with the coolest people on the planet.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Yeah, that is so cool. And Harley people are the
coolest people.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
They really they really are And kind of the coolest
part about it. Whenever I start talking about it, I
get goosebumps. Is it's everyone's space to come play in.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Who you are, where you're from, your background. We have doctors, lawyers,
aim and then we've got people that all they all
they want to do is work so they can so they.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Can pay for their motorcycles.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
So and everyone gets to come and hang out together.
There's millionaires on our floor that do not look like millionaires.
They got scraggly, old, dirty tattoos and a dirty old beard.
But they get to come hang out at the Harley
shop they're in. They're into motorcycling, and that's what it's
really all about.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah, and while you're up here hanging out and having
a good time, the beer is free.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Right. We always have free beer.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
So everything that we do at our store, when we
take a lot of pride in it, it's it's always
it's always free. All of our events always free. There's
free beer flowing as long as as long as we've
got it. Every once in a while we run out.
That's really, that's really it happens.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
You throw a good party, sometimes you run out of
you throw a good party.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Out, we'll run out of you know, when we have
the bar running. We'll run out of whiskey every once
in a while too. But yeah, everything's always free. We
just want you to come hang out and uh, if
you see something that that you like while you're here,
you know, we've got everything. Everything's available for purchase too.
We have a huge motor clothes inventory. We stock over
a million dollars in parts. Our service department is always
running a gun and so we'll maintain your motorcycle as well.
(04:06):
And I think we've got one hundred and twenty five
hundred and forty motorcycles on the ground between new and used.
So full service, easy to access as always in.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
We're I was here for always here for a good time.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
That's amazing. Well, quick question. You said your dad got
you started in Harley.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Is your dad so proud of you?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (04:25):
I mean, look at what made this a career. That's incredible.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
It's pretty cool. It's pretty cool. And when I got
into it, he called me there was a job fair.
So I was in architectural sheet metal. I did sheet
metal roofing systems. My dad was a forty year commercial roofer,
so he just heard an advertisement on the radio and
said they were having a job fair.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Every good sheet.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Metal guy's always got his resume with him. It was like,
if you quit your job on Thursday, your wife will
be really managed to if we don't have a job
on Friday, right, and if you have a resume you're
always worth a little more money than a guy who doesn't.
So I had my resume. I went to a job fair,
quit doing sheet metal. Got into it just a couple
months ago.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
I took a The.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Black I bought for my dad was a nineteen ninety
soft Tail. I took a nineteen ninety soft Tail and
on trade, I was taking pictures of it, and I said,
I found another motorcycle for you.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Within two weeks, he drove up from Florida. They retired
and moved to Florida.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I'm originally from Colorado, so he's got another motorcycle. He
bought a new one from me a couple of years
ago too, so my parents are completely also immersed into
the culture as well. My brother rides a road Glide Limited.
He's built a couple of motorcycles as well, so we're
a motorcycle and family.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
My kids absolutely love it.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
They got a Harley shirt on every other day. My
daughters are eight and ten. Wife's into it.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
We're all into it. It's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
That is awesome, So be sure and come out here
because it's a party all the time. Our friend Kevin
is out here having a good time. Just look at
that sweet lovely face. Come out here see Kevin. Come
see the party that they have going on, and check
out all of their incredible inventory of Harley Davidson.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yeah, we got it all everything, everything a full service
Harley Davidson dealership should have.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
What sets us apart a little bit. We're family owned
and operated.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
We're kind of like the last of the Mohicans of
just families that own dealerships. There's like private equity firms
and big giant car dealerships are buying these things up
like crazy.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
But all of us live local. The owners live local.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
They're on site every day too, so it's a good
place to come hang out at.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Thank you so much, Kevin. Is there anything else that
you would like to tell people?
Speaker 3 (06:15):
So?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Our taglines are fresh air and Freedom. Really big into
fresh air and freedom whatever that means for you.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
We're into it and being family owned and operated.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Thank you so much, Kevin.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Come out to Longhorn, Harley, Come see Kevin from join
the party. Come get a free beer, get a shot,
get a motorcycle.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Thank you so much, Kevinya, you bet awesome. Propot Digital
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