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She was then assigned to customer service and bookkeeping while two less-qualified men were brought in to the dealership on Page Street as mechanics, the agency said. The dealership has moved to South San Francisco.</p> <p>Dean filed a discrimination complaint with the federal agency in February 2006 and was fired two months later, the lawsuit said. She has applied to other Harley-Davidson dealerships since then but hasn't been hired, said an attorney for the agency, Jonathan Peck.</p> <p>"My dream was to be a mechanic working on old bikes, in a city where I would have the freedom to be myself and ride with Dykes on Bikes," Dean said in a statement released by the federal commission. Women bought 12 percent of all Harley-Davidsons last year, she said, and "if we can ride them, we can fix them."</p> <p>The suit, filed in U.S. District Court, seeks back wages and additional damages. 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