here we have three different Cruisers from three different manufacturers the Harley-Davidson
Breakout 117 the Triumph Speedmaster and the BMW r18 so in this video I'm going to go over
which one of these Cruisers might be for you what the similarities and differences are
between them starting with the Triumph Speedmaster look back at my review of this it's a wonderful
motorcycle I love it to bits the Speedmaster is a 1200 cc which is a big bike by most standards
unless you're used to having a Harley-Davidson or an r18 and they're much bigger we'll come
onto the figures in a minute anyone who's ridden one of these triumphs will say how
torquey the engine is and it is really torquey until you're in the Harley-Davidson or the
r18 and the talk from those engines is in another League uh it's a bit like the Speedmaster
is the guy who goes to the Sports Center Gym the local Authority gym and you're Pumping
Iron you're flipping look at yourself in the mirror I think you know what looking around
I'm one of the big guys in the gym and you feel really cool then you decide to join a
bodybuilding gym and you go to the gym first day put your weights up you're looking at
oh look at me I'm looking good here and you look around and you think hang on a minute
look at that guy oh my God look at that guy they're massive and that's a bit what it's
like when you go from the speed master to the Harley-Davidson Breakout or the BMW r18
these guys are the big guys of the gym I'm not saying this isn't a big guy you're still
pretty cool but you're not in the league of these two
I've just got back from test riding the Harley-Davidson Breakout 117 and we're doing a full review
on this bike coming after this video you need to watch that but I can tell you now this
bike is absolutely tremendous the talk that this produces is off the scale and it produces
it so low down below 2000 RPM if you open up the throttle it'll pull like a freight
train and most bikes won't even get going till well over three and a half thousand this
is incredible if you open the throttle up and let the revs build it's a very fast motorcycle
and it's more of a Performance Engine than the one 14 Harley-Davidson V-Twin it's brilliant
absolutely brilliant and the stability that these uh forks with the rake of 34 degrees
gives you is is very reassuring now I was giving it a bit of throttle to test how fast
the bike would go in acceleration and while I was doing that I hit a bump most bikes I
probably would have crashed it would have unsettled it so much because of the long wheelbase
and the rake it didn't unsettle the bike even though it did a bit of a shake and that's
a good thing this is the purpose of these sort of uh Dimensions they're very stable
and very reassuring and they're just wonderful to ride the BMW r18 is actually quite similar
to the Harley-Davidson Breakout you've got that long wheelbase and you've got a raked
out front and you've got massive Torquay twin cylinder engine so again this will give you
huge amounts of torque at very very low RPM just like the Harley wheel if anything more
so once the revs build the Harley will PIP IT um we're not sort of crunching figures
and comparing top speeds or anything like that but this does give you that massive grunt
at low RPMs and that's the beauty of these Cruisers they're all torquey bikes even the
Triumph is talking but like I said not in the league of the r18 or Harley-Davidson [Applause]
[Applause]
now of course Triumph do the Rocket 3 which is a talk monster which has more torque and
more power than both of the Harley and the r18 but it's a different kind of feel to it
um of course we've got these three bikes here at the moment so that's why I'm comparing
them but the Rocket 3 I don't think is in the same class of retro modern classic nostalgic
kind of bike it's a bit modern looking it doesn't have that same appeal so the sort
of person perhaps that would buy one of these might not want to go for the Rocket 3 because
of those reasons it's a different sort of uh appeal I think I like the classic looking
bikes and if the Rocket 3 looked like that but bigger and had the bigger engine we might
be comparing the three in a different way now let's quickly compare a few figures the
r18 produces 158 newton meters of torque at 3000 RPM that's 116 foot-pounds the breakout
produces a peak of 168 newton meters or 123 foot-pounds at three and a half thousand RPM
and the Speedmaster produces 106 newton meters of torque or 78 foot-pounds and that Peaks
at 4 000 RPM so the r18 produces most of its torque lower down followed by the breakout
and then the speed master but as you can see by the figures the Speedmaster isn't in the
same league as these two in terms of talk the BMW r18 produces a peak of 91 horsepower
at 4750 RPM the breakout has a bit more 102 horsepower at 5020 RPM and the speed master
produces 76.9 horsepower at 6100 RPM now the r18 will give you 50.4 miles per gallon that's
42 miles per gallon USA the breakout will give you 50.4 miles per gallon same exactly
as the r18 and the Speedmaster will give you 60.9 miles per gallon or 50.7 USA Gardens
so the Speedmaster is the more economical of the three as you would expect now we've
got a lot of followers in the USA so I'm trying to sort of do the figures for for USA and
Europe now the um breakout is 117 cubic inches which is 1 917 CC the um BMW r18 is 110 cubic
inches or thereabouts or 1 800 CC and the speed master is 73 cubic inches or 1200 cc
of course there's a big price difference between the three bikes the Speedmaster is the cheapest
of the three at 12 995 pounds UK prices of course go to your websites in your country
to find the different prices the Harley-Davidson Breakout 117 is 24 195 pounds in basic spec
and you can spec them up and the BMW r18 starts at 17 256 um but mine would be uh 21 471 or
thereabouts specked up in the same way as mine with the reverse and various other things
so in my opinion on that bike you need the reverse it's a wonderful thing to have
foreign
of each bike and what do they all give you the Triumph is smaller it's more manageable
size wise it's compact it has steeper raked forks and the handling is sharper it'll turn
easier and it feels quite Peppy the Harley-Davidson is super stable it's much longer it's much
bigger it's harder to handle you've got a massive fat rear tire um you do have to sort
of wrestle it a little bit but people say they're rubbish in the corners it's actually
really good fun in the corners um it's not a sports bike you don't ride these like sports
bikes once you know where the pegs are going to scrape you know how fast to take the corners
um that's not a bad thing they're all good fun to ride in straight lines or on on Bends
the r18 again is very talky it's very long it's the biggest longest of the three bikes
you've got the boxer engine which sticks out none of these bikes are shy and retiring they're
all out there giving you a massive statement and all of their statements are a little bit
different um not one of these bikes is going to sort of blend away into the background
if you turn up on any one of these bikes people are going to stop and stare the riding positions
the Harley has feet and fists forward and it's very comfortable the speed master your
feet are forward again the handlebars aren't quite as wide and they're sort of swept back
the beach bars I think they call them uh slightly different riding position and of course a
smaller bike and the r18 your fists are forward but your legs are mid control so your knees
are a little bit more bent some people think the cylinders are in the way they're not of
course but they are if you want to straighten your legs with the Harley-Davidson you don't
have that problem neither do you with the Triumph now on the subject of handling the
breakout's good of 21 inch tall but narrow front wheel and a massive rear tire the narrowness
of the front compensates for the thickness of the back so the handling is actually surprisingly
good the handling is a subjective term I think the handling on this and that are brilliant
That's my kind of handling so I would say they're very good handling bikes this is a
sharper handling bike which is not my preference in terms of feel and when you come for further
down the line with some sort of more sporty bikes where the forks are almost vertical
that is awful in my mind but people would say they're the best handling bucks it's a
subjective term isn't it but if handling is going around corners as fast as possible none
of these bikes handle but if handling is how well they ride and how they do everything
then they all handle brilliantly if you want to make friends then the trough Speedmaster
is the bike for you wherever you go and whoever you speak to everyone seems to like it with
the Harley-Davidsons no matter which hire you get you get your haters but conversely
if you've got a Harley then anyone else has got a Harley they're going to talk to you
and you're part of the club if you like um so there there's two sides to the Harley and
the same with the RIT and it does have its haters um but it's also got its lovers and
no matter which part you you choose you're certainly going to have conversations wherever
you stop so there we have it three very different Cruisers which one would you go for and why
say in the comments below I'd be very interested to hear your opinions um let's not have any
of the hate on the Harleys or the BMW let's see if you can resist that if we do get hateful
comments we'll know that you haven't watched the video to the end with me so we'll see
you on the next one some amazing videos to come