so this is the harley-davidson 48 and it's actually the first harley-davidson
I ever had about six years ago when they first came out I bought one secondhand it
was six months old and Cobra there's beats the 909 reason why they sound
really nice actually not may go out for their very deep they pop when you fought
it off they look very neat nice and fat so they were lovely looking part
as he said these I've got me the Cobra speaks at 9:00 at night and the idea with these is that
they're slightly less loud so they're more baffled for a more of a deeper tone it's less harsh than
so on the road it's a really nice bike to ride it's very involved and it feels really narrows
I'm using a softer and it changes direction easily these tires are lovely they're quite
fast they're not too tall so you get good handling it's a really easy bike to ride
70 miles an hour feels quite stable so you don't feel like it's all over the place it
looks the business you've got a nice positional announcer well forward my feet are the forward
controls people probably say look too smooth for me but when you're on it it doesn't feel smaller
feels really nice it feels kind of something that you can throw around a little bit I think
it looks too small really yeah especially from behind if you want to gauge how big
the bike is 6 4 3 I mean as I said it feels roomy enough you know I'm not all crunched up
like this it just probably doesn't look it no I think they um the Harley 88 3 iron is
a little bit of a bigger bite than this not by much but because of the bigger wheels it feels
a little bit longer bit taller but this has got fabulous look I mean it's a stylish bike isn't it
over the sort of first 48 these have got slightly fatter Forks they've also unlike
the iron which has the Horrible's of rubber coiling around that this is more of an exposed
it looks a lot nicer the original 48 had spoke wheels where is this to go allows
yeah I'd say I do prefer spoke wheels as a rule but yeah as I'll always go I
think these are really nice suspension soaks up the bumps quite well there's
not a lot of travel on the back but enough for the normal roads you know
it's it's a faultless bike really and out of the crate it looks flippin nice
get Softail you probably only got about 70 miles out of a tank that's what you expect
from sports they're more suburban riding they've got a nice new design the standard handlebars
they're quite narrow but if you're riding in town in London in the cities if you're too
wide you're not going to get down the middle of cars so from that point of view it's good
but you can't get paid Smitty aches and be up to here a bit more so it's very versatile
a lot you can do with a 48 but I mean it just looks so nice you got the black in the chrome
it really goes well together the speedo is well out in front so you don't have to look very far
down to be able to see speed you're doing and the ribs whereas some of the Harley's
they're further back so by time you look at if you can't see the road ahead so this is good
if you're 19 and you wanted to get Harley you can get this 80 restricted makes it under 47
for our believe I think these are about 67 as as they come so it's a bit of a restriction there
where is the I is only about 2 horsepower really likes it I'm sure you probably notice different
comment sections they always say no it's a girl's bike you shouldn't be right now it's
too small for you but at the end of day it's a bike's a bike I don't think it's a girl's bike
with the 48 you've got the underslung mirrors and practically that's they are really good because
you see the road clearly behind you whereas if you have them on top your shoulders get in the way so
they're a good actually very good designer like these the Harley 48 comes of the 1200 cc engine
v-twin engine and it's got plenty of power it's not massively powerful but it's got enough power
on talk to be fun but it's not so much that if you were a fairly new rider that you wouldn't
find it a bit of a handful could it be your first bike well once you passed your test I don't think
the powers too much but I mean I would have you know as I say when I was younger I progressed
through different trail bikes until eventually bought a Harley so probably it's better to go
that route maybe have a 250 for a year or so but the power is the power is good but it's not
like Oh Harley no connector for the battery tenders okay on this the number plates in
the center at the bottom of the rear fender and it doesn't look that bad to be honest
because they're quite wide tires if you had a smaller plate it would look really neat but the
plastic thing they've designed here is quite minimalistic so that doesn't look bad at all
actually and the indicators a nice they're a nice little bit of metal there and pretty raw
a nice design so they look good aesthetically I think this is actually a very beautiful model by
okay on these you've got the much better side stand compared to the new Softail so
have a look down here I don't know why they can't put this on the Softail it's
nice and wide it glides out easily whereas on the new soft house the end of the stand
digs into the tarmac and then it kind of leans on the spring and then half the time
you're going to drop the bike so this you know it's on the stand brilliant design so
we've got the adjustable suspension here on the rear and these really nice alloy wheels
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