oh man i'm completely and utterly lost in this video i'm going to review how good the
harley davidson nightsta is on a longer journey and go over a few more points about the bike
and also we're going to talk about customization and the things you can do with a bike like this
like all harley davidsons there's lots of things you can do to customize the bike
and i'm going to leave a link in the description below to harley davidson's video
where they show the nightsta and four different customization
shops if you like who have done a great deal of customization on the bike to show you what you
can do but i'm going to go over quickly what i would do if i was going to buy this bike myself
one of the things i said in my review is that this dummy air cover gets in the way
so you can't squeeze the tank with your knees and because it's a fast bike you do need to squeeze
the tank with your knees and that's not the tank um but this thing actually pulls straight off so
immediately put that on your wall as soon as you buy the bike and leave it there
and harley dave's can do an accessory called the velocity air stack which has a little bit of mesh
but that sticks out just as far so really it kind of defeats the object of taking it off so i would
fashion some sort of piece of mesh there to stop sucking in debris maybe there'll be an
aftermarket thing to cover up fairly soon but that will be much better without that dummy cover on
the other thing is this sort of covers that you've got on the side of the engine here
i'm going to see if you can take them off to get a different look so it matches the other side
one of the things i'm not keen on is the look of this side of the engine i know that's the
engine side that's designed to look the best i prefer the other side personally so i thought
these are just plastic covers but they're not you can see the internals of the engine
here so you can't just take them off and reveal something underneath it is the actual engine cover
the next thing i would do if this was my bike would be to remove the exhaust
and put a different exhaust pipe on something smaller and more minimalistic and something
that gives it a better sound and that'll be brilliant i love the front end i love the wheels
i love the forks i love this i love the handlebars bar end mirrors are brilliant
absolutely perfect don't change that this all looks a bit of a mess so if i were customizing it
that's something i would be looking at to try and neaten up and hide some of that stuff and
get rid of all that plastic these two plastic covers they look okay not really a problem there
at the back of the bike a smaller number plate because that's the huge british sail and because
of the size of the plate i'd have it down here to be honest so i would do that relocate that
and again on this side i try and neaten up some of these plastic bits that are stuck on here
and there but to be honest other than that it's a good looking bike and as i said in my review it's
not a traditionalist harley-davidson and it's not trying to be it's appealing to a new market
and it is a very good bike indeed it really is superb you don't have to customize it of course
you can keep it exactly as it is and let us know whether you would customize it or keep it as it is
but the few little things that i've said i think would improve the bike dramatically looks wise let
us know what you think there's one more thing though the other thing is this on top of the
tank you've got this plastic thing which you can undo i haven't got the right tool for that
but it's a shame that that wasn't made to be a little flap that you could lift up and put
your mobile phone in with a usb charger that would be really handy to have even with a little clear
screen so you can see your sat nav and all that sort of stuff so that's a bit of a shame but maybe
there'll be an aftermarket company or even harley davidson might think of it and make something for
that because that would be brilliant the gear change on this is really good it's very slick
lovely gears it does that clunk into first that you get on all harleys and i'm sure that's been
engineered to do that because it would be easy for them not to do that but that gives it that
traditional harley clunk but the rest of the gears go through battery smooth so i'm gonna get on the
bike now and ride it back to harley davidson and swap it for a low rider s and ride that back and
we're going to do a review on that it's of course a brilliant bike for normal journeys
if you are touring you know a couple of times a year going off three 400 miles absolutely fine i'm
sure but we'll establish that uh as we go on but it's not designed as a touring bike it's a cruiser
it's a street bike it's for going to the bar posing going to work commuting all that sort
of stuff so we know it's good for that so how good is it on the journey let's go and find out
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oh man i'm completely and utterly lost um i was looking for the a417
well actually i was looking for the a47 it in my head i was looking for that i missed the
417 and i've been driving miles and miles riding miles and miles and miles and miles
and basically i got this sat nav uh which i we don't have a usb charger on the nightstand so
i haven't turned it on until i got lost so i've turned it on two minutes later the battery's flat
same problem with the phone so i wrote down the directions on a bit of paper
uh as i said a sort of slightly numbered dyslexic whatever you call it so in my head was a different
number uh but i've asked the bt man and he told me where to go so i'm sort of about 30 miles
off track but the bike's going all right actually i'm not that achy um so i've been riding for two
hours it's going fine and so basically that's the point of the second half of this review is
to see what the bike's like on a longer journey and um yeah it's pretty good so yeah you can do
a longer journey it's not a touring bike of course but um i'll certainly do it so
if you're going away somewhere once or twice a year and it's a few hundred miles no not a problem
at all ah talk about bad luck i stopped off on the way quite a few times and filmed a few things
and the audio completely failed so you couldn't hear what i was saying but it's just amazing
places and in one of them i walked into this old building it was an old abbey or something
and uh i was accosted by the woman who works there and says have you got a ticket and i said no i've
got a ticket i didn't know i needed a ticket but um obviously i'm not paying 10 quid just to walk
around somewhere for five minutes and that's the thing if you stop off on lots of places on the way
everyone wants 10 pounds out of you be 100 pounds short by the time you get there
anyway i'll put the um visual over the audio of what i'm saying now but
it was a shame because there's some amazing places i managed to see if the nightstar had the usb
thingy that the soft tails have got then obviously i could have plugged in the tom tom
or my phone and used the sat nav from my phone or unfortunately both my phone
and my tomtom went flat and i did write the directions down on a bit of paper because i'm
bright like that but i'm a bit stupid because i didn't follow them as i said in the video i uh
i was looking for the a47 and i should have been looking for the a4 on seven times past the turning
miles and miles a mile uh regardless of all that the bike was really good so there's no problem
with the bike at all it's quite nice on a long journey and um i did a roads b roads and motorways
and the the bike was fine so there's no problem with the right it's good bike very good bike
lovely engine it likes to rev it goes beautifully accelerates beautifully so if you want a different
harley davidson then the nightstar is that bike it is that bike and as i said does
it matter that it's that different from other harleys because honda do it bmw do it triumph
do it lots of manufacturers make completely different bikes from what you're used to so
there's no reason why harley can't do that so the night still is a good bike it really is it's good
on long journeys it's good on the short journeys it's a lot of fun the engine is a good really
fast engine and it's not like the other harleys which are deep down lopey with tons of low down
torque it's not that bike and like i said earlier if honda can make different sorts of bikes and no
one complains and triumph and other manufacturers then why can't harley do it so um it is a good
bite there was some negativity in my original review on the comments as well as positivity
and a lot of that is either harley haters which it doesn't matter what harley will do they don't
like it the other thing was perhaps people that want to like a traditional harley and don't think
it is well as i said it doesn't matter because it's a different bike and you've still got the
original harley's wait till you see the lowry address review i've done so yeah on the whole
it's a different bike it's a very good bike so take it for what it is and you know if
you're slightly interested go for a test ride because it is astonishing and you will like it