Tuesday 28 March 2017

Harley-Davidson

Harley #3 of 50?




Working on the assumption that Matt Levatich wasn’t counting paint scheme variants, then the new Revolution X750 engine ‘Street Rod’ will be number three in his 50 new models in five years blitz - that’s if you give Harley the benefit of the doubt and start counting from January’s XG750R announcement (the engine is available as a “Crate Motor”, even though the bike itself isn’t a production model), and include February’s Road King Special as #2 in the plan for global domination. Ever since the ‘Street Rod’ was announced, we have been trying to remember who it was at Harley that went on the record at the time of the V-Rod launch, swearing that there would never be any “baby rods” ...