this is my 2021 harley-davidson soft tail standard and in this video i'm going to tell
you what it's like to live with this bike and give you a long-term review now i've owned this
bike for a good few months now and i've done just over two and a half thousand miles on it um and
i've got a good idea of what to think of this bike i've done long journeys i've done short journeys
longest being going to wales um and this bike coped with it very well
the only issue i had on that journey was having a sore bum after a couple of hours
and i've changed the seat now from the standard seat to a harley davidson badlander two up seat
which maybe is slightly more comfortable for the rider but for the pillion it's not that
comfortable but it means you can take someone on the back and i've gone for the defiant series
rear pegs as well which i really like this combo and it looks really nice on this bike
this is actually my first time on this bike for
about a week or so just got back from a lovely trip from uh to amsterdam which was
amazing what a place but uh didn't see many motorbikes there it was just full of bicycles
and mopeds just absolutely everywhere which is a bit weird but it's nice to be back on this beauty
now i'm not going to talk about specs in this video because
i've done that in my first impressions review which i'll leave in the description below
so if you want to know all the specs and all that sort of stuff please watch that video
but in this video i'm going to tell you what it's like to live with this bike and i just can't
praise it enough so i'll go into more details in a moment now i do really love the handling of this
bike um obviously it weighs 297 kilos i believe so it's not a light bike but it's also not too heavy
but due to it having a narrower front tyre compared to a lot of the other harleys it handles
really well it handles more like a sportster than it does a soft tail which i love about it and you
can throw it in the corners and it goes where you tell it to it's not obviously as nimble as
the lighter capacity bikes like the royal enfield meteor that i've just ridden but when you get back
on this you do have a lot of fun in the corner still even though it is a little bit heavier
another thing i've done to this bike is fit a tracker um thanks to sizzap for getting in contact
with us and they've sent me this uh tracker it's a tiny little you know only that big and it clips
onto your battery nice and easily and it sits under there nice and tucked away you wouldn't know
it was there and it's absolutely fantastic i'll go into the features of that uh throughout the video
but i am really impressed with it so it is actually something worth getting it's definitely
worth spending your money on it i've also changed the exhaust to the vance and heinz twin slip-ons
which i did a video review of and these really do sound very nice so check out that video
a lot of people complain about the size of the fuel tank on the soft tail standard or
the street bobs and i actually don't have any issues with it at all obviously if you're doing
lots of long journeys you might find it a bit annoying having to fill up all the time
but mostly for me i'm doing short journeys so i don't have any issues with that
and the shape of it just looks fantastic and it keeps in with the style of the bike whereas if
you had a bigger fuel tank it just looked like this big cumbersome fuel tank stuck on a nice
kind of slim looking bike so that wouldn't really go very well but when i went to wales about a
three hour journey um i don't think i only had to fill up once i believe and then that was it so
unless you're doing really long journeys you're not gonna have a problem and this bike
is not built for that so if you wanna do lots and lots of long journeys by a road king or something
like that most importantly of course the says app tracker allows you to track your motorcycle's
exact location on a map which is in their app which is ever so easy to use and you know you can
see where your bike is from anywhere in the world i've just gone to amsterdam and i was checking the
app and i could see that my bike was safe in my garage and i didn't have to worry about it
so that's a really nice thing to have and it also you can get notifications directly to the app
and it has a motion detector so as soon as someone even if they sit on the bike and put
it upright straight away you get a notification saying unauthorized movement of your motorcycle
and then you know that someone's trying to tamper with it or you know oh that was me
so i don't need to worry about it but it's very handy and very confidence inspiring
of course let's be quiet
so
now that i've changed my seat which i am very happy with i really love this seat
i think it keeps the lines of the bike and adds that
bit of comfort for the rider and obviously allows you to take a pillion
there's only one more change that i'd really make and that is to put a bigger front disc brake the
stopping power is okay but when you really want to stop you kind of think am i actually going to stop
so that's the only thing i'd change other than that this bike is just really really fantastic
it's a moped coming as we always say with the harley-davidsons the torque is absolutely
tremendous even on the 107 if you're looking at this and thinking oh do i just spend an extra
thousand pounds to get the street bob just because of that 114 it's not really worth it
personally i prefer the looks of this i think it looks more like a diner street bob
which i said before and it should be called the street bob classic
not a soft tail standard it pains me every time i tell somebody i've got a soft tail
standard i can't stand it please rename it harley davidson it's an awful name
now the greatest feature about this tracker of them all is that there's no monthly costs most
trackers you have to pay you know 10 quid a month or something for your subscription
whereas this is 180 euros up front and that's it no more payments you've got the app and that's it
it's connected you don't have to worry about it and that's very reasonable really if you think
if you bought a tracker and you're spending 10 pounds a month and you've got it for five years
you're going to be spending a lot more money so that's a really really handy thing um and i'm very
pleased about that i've met a few people who've bought the soft tail standard after watching
my review which i was very amazed to hear and i'd like to hear from any others of you who have
bought one upon my recommendation be interesting to hear and i'd like to see any of your owners
tell me what you think of the bike because i absolutely love it and i can barely fault it and
to be honest with you i don't know what i would change change it for what other bike would i buy
this bike just ticks all my boxes i love the look of the breakout but i feel like it would slightly
disappoint me with the handling aspect because this spike is probably the best handling harley
apart from obviously the live wire etcetera but really i really really really love this bike
do
there's some more features about the tracker with the app
you've got a map on there and you can see your exact route where you've just been
let tell you how long you spent on the bike how many miles you did et cetera you can also do route
sharing with friends so if you're on a group ride out and your friends have also got syzap
you can share your routes together and if one one person gets sort of lost and goes the wrong way
you can then easily find out where they are through the sizz app i think the display on this
bike is very good it's easy to read easy to understand tells you everything you need to
know uh the mirrors you can see plenty out the back of them i have no problems there um i still
swear by it i love the mid controls mid controls i feel like i'm in more control of the bike whereas
when you've got forwards you just feel like you're laying back in an armchair i'll get it if you've
got bad knees but i don't suffer from that problem yet so for me mid controls are absolutely perfect
the suspension is perfectly good um it takes the bumps pretty easily
and if you go over any potholes it kind of soaks them up you do feel the odd bump but it's
not really a problem so i don't really have any issues with the suspension either the headlight is
actually very good as well in the dark you switch it on full beam and it lights up the whole road
which i was quite impressed with actually and it's a nice white light as well which i am a fan of and
i still really love the looks of this bike i don't know whether
anyone would agree with me but i think it's the best looking harley that is made new to this day
let me know in the comments section below what you think
and personally i don't think it needs anything more doing to it customization-wise at least
aesthetically anyway but let me do it if you and me personally i think it's just how i like it
says app is easy to install i've put in some clips of me installing it i tried to install it myself
actually but this isn't something to do with scissors this is something to do with this bike
in particular they bury the um the battery below the um rear suspension which makes it slightly
hard to get to so um i use my friend works for harley davidson as a mechanic so he helped me out
to get to it and once you get to it it's so easy you literally clip it on plug it in that's it it's
done and then you don't have to worry about it you leave it on there and it runs off the
battery of your motorcycle and it's waterproof so you don't have to worry about taking it out
either another thing i've observed from owning this bike and it's not just this bike it's all
of the harley-davidsons the standard tyres aren't very good in the wet they're perfectly good in
the dry but when it gets a little bit slippery the back end tends to want to come out so you
have to be careful about that and last but not least says app allows you to check your battery
level so that's certainly handy especially for harleys because a lot of the time you need to
keep them on trickle charge over the winter so that will allow you to know what your battery
percentage is at and when you need to start charging it so that's another great feature
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do you agree with me should harley davidson change the name of this bike to the street bob classic
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