in this video we're going to talk about
why we always choose cruiser motorcycles over any other type of motorcycle
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should have put your bike this way because you've got reverse i don't have reverse
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designed by an infant child and that is why you need a reverse on a motorcycle because
this bike weighs 300 kilograms just under 297 i think it is and it's completely and utterly
hopeless if you're on your own trying to get it up a slight slope it's not even that steep unless you
are the strongest man in the world it is quite difficult which the bmw has so if you're watching
this harley davidson put reverse on your bikes but in this video we're going to talk about why
we love cruiser motorcycles so much and why we always love coming back to them after riding all
these other types of bikes and we still love them the most so let's go into why that is now when
you're riding a cruiser motorcycle whether it be a harley davidson or a bmw r18 it's not just
going for a ride it's like having an event it's a it's an occasion when you ride it and you can
feel this monstrous engine below your gentleman's parts and it is very very uh exciting and whenever
you twist the throttle there's so much torque on tap so overtaking is not a problem it's sat
on the motorway you're doing motorway speeds and you want to get past someone you don't even need
to downshift it just pulls um and that is the lovely thing about cruisers is the effortlessness
this this torque which is just unbelievable compared to any other type of bike you'd have
to rev the absolute parliament french nuts off of it it just goes so that's what we love about
now as darcy said it's that lovely low down talk you get that really appeals aside from the looks
and the style and all that and the handling and the geometry that you know my bike produces 150
newton meters at 2000 rpm and that's a monstrous amount of torque and this is pretty close too
um whereas a sort of high-powered sports bike's not even half of that torque at 2000 rpm
um so that's what i love about it you say you can overtake easily you can pull up hills easily
it makes for a very relaxed ride you don't need to rev it just so you
short shifting is a good thing a lot of people that ride sports bikes say you've
got a short shifter and that's a bad thing you know that's what we love about them
so yeah these big talking engines are wonderful and you you can't really um comment though you
can't comment but you can't really appreciate it until you've ridden one and then you'll know what
we're talking about so go to your dealer and have a test ride ah are you being are you been
ah you found me another thing we love about cruiser motorcycles is the way they look i'm not
a fan of modern looking bites of pointy plastic rubbish all over them and horrible massive screens
that um you can probably go on facebook on you don't need that on a bike you need the basics
tell you what you need to know your miles per hour the speedo and what gear you're in that's
all you really need to know and how much petrol you've got which that doesn't tell you which is
big problem to me but he doesn't care but they're just so big they're long which is great for taller
riders so if you're above six foot they're just so comfortable and there's no need for forward
controls i think personally that gives you less control and then your legs are all the way out
there and i don't like that i like mid controls but just the looks of them are absolutely stunning
and i prefer that over a modern sports bike or something like that with all this pointy plastic
it's not for me okay so throughout the video you may have noticed we are adding some drone
shots i've been very kindly sent this drone from power vision it's called the power egg
x and it's a very unusual looking thing packaging is fantastic and it comes like that it's an egg
but you take it apart and put these wings on it fold it out and it turns into a full-on drone
um very good camera quality shoots in up to 4k various different frame rates and you've got
an app so you put your phone on the remote and then you can see where you're flying
it will return to home to exactly where you took off it's very very easy to control i've
never flown a drone before in my life and i found it very intuitive he didn't because
he's old but so bear in mind if you're a bit younger you might understand it a bit better
and the biggest feature that for us is the only feature that we want out of a drone is that it can
follow you so it's got an l tracking feature where you can select your subject whether it's a person
or a car or a bike or a cyclist whatever you do and you press it press play and it will track that
person in various different ways that can track them from the side from behind from a set distance
from in front and that is absolutely fantastic for motovloggers because you can just set it up
tell it to follow you drive down the road a couple of times come back and then tell it to land again
and you don't have to touch it while it's doing it so this is a fantastic feature that we're really
excited to test out so we'll let you know what we think of it at the end of the video and if you're
interested in this product or many of the other drones and products that they do there's also
a phone gimbal mount for you starters that are using your phone to record which will allow you
to make really smooth panning shots around your different subjects then check that out as well
and there'll be a link in the description to see their website so make sure you click that link
now with both of these bikes one of the things that i love is the pure art of them the black and
the chrome the view from the handlebars looking forward is just beautiful you have a beautiful
artistic clock in the middle lovely chrome everything is wonderful on it and it's the same
with the harley is just art so your view of the road ahead is with the bike in it is just amazing
and standing back looking at the bikes as well they are just so beautiful and like darcy said
you get none of that pointy plastic stuff and all these uh gadgetary things mine has modes i've got
three modes but they're not obtrusive in any way whatsoever just seen a rat yeah i have to get that
so basically you press the button rock and roll and right in three modes and on this
bike they work really well um on darcy's your mode is your throttle hand and that's great so
these are sort of very much back to basics bikes like they used to be in the past and
it's a pure riding experience rather than having basically riding a computerized gadget and um i
think a lot of cruiserizers would agree with that that you you're riding a beautiful machine and
you know it's got enough technology without being obtrusive and spoiling the experience of the ride
this is the first time we've had these bites together face to face and they look very well
together actually i think they complement each other very nicely um let us know what you think in
the comments um but i think they look like quite a good pair um and another thing you notice is
obviously with cruiser motorcycle you've got quite a um a shallow shallow is that the not so steep
rake um so these are 32 degrees this is 30. um and that gives you a much more stable ride
at a higher speed and it means that when you go into a corner it's kind of a smooth maneuver
whereas some bikes with a steep rake are very twitchy and they go into the corner like that
whereas this is very kind of you lean into the corner and it goes around nice and smoothly
and surprisingly they are very nice to ride on
um you know cornery roads they are actually very enjoyable um some people would think they wouldn't
be but it's kind of the fun of wrestling this heavy beast into a corner is quite enjoyable so
if you haven't ridden one definitely go out and ride one you'll see what i mean
the other thing is both these bikes and most cruisers they're manual you've got a clutch
you've got the gear lever and you're doing it you're blipping the throttle on the downshift
you're changing gear you're getting the timing right and all that gives you the most
amazing experience you're at one with the machine and controlling this amazing machine a lot of
bikes nowadays um quick shifters and things like that i don't like that i mean when i first rode a
bike with a quick shifter i did think wow this is good but that's for 10 minutes and then you think
well i'm not doing it it's changing gear for you or just doing that and that becomes boring after
a while and doing it yourself is part of the experience of riding a motorcycle and cruisers
give you that in bucket loads another thing that is a big point and this is what i've always loved
about harley's specifically is the sound that they make the deep rumble of the v-twin engine
uh this parallel twin that's in the bmw sounds fantastic as well
um it's kind of a completely different sound it's a bit like a spitfire going past
awesome sounding bike this has got stock exhaust which i agree looks very good and
it looks very nice and classic but it's not very loud um i would definitely want something louder
let me know what you think in the comments section should the old man change his exhaust or
take the baffles out something like that to make it have a bit more of a rumble i've got vance and
heinz slip-ons on mine twin slash slip-ons and they sound perfect give you that good old harley
sound and they're not overly loud they've just got that nice deep harley tone which is what i love
a little while back we reviewed the honda rebel 1100 and in that video i said it is
a proper cruiser and it is um we had the dct version which is the automatic gear change
thing and one of the comments or it may have been another video review i watched i can't remember
said that having a dct automatic is just what you need on a cruiser because you want to be
laid back and let the bike do it for you well that is exactly the opposite of what we buy a cruiser
for we want to do it we want to change gear blip the throttle do that ourselves so that is not
true so we really do love the cruisers because you're manually involved as part of the bike
but part of this huge big beast of a machine and that is what is really enjoyable about riding a
cruiser now a lot of people commented on the honda rebel review about the looks of the honda and that
they didn't like it and said you know not like harley got the lovely classic looks of a harley
on a cruiser or even the bmw um but now uh harley have got a couple of bikes that compete
uh directly with the honda rebel on looks and that's the sports dress and knightsta both of
which are sort of perhaps not the most beautiful classic looking of harleys so um if you're looking
for that sort of style of bike now you've got the honda rebel and two of the harleys to go
for we wanted to review the sports address and you know be waiting for harley davidson to send us a
bike unfortunately they have managed to um get us that one yet or the nightstar we were down for a
low rider s or we are down for one um but a lot of manufacturers promise us spikes when we say
in the video right coming soon is this and this this and this or five different bikes that we've
been promised from different manufacturers uh and we're chasing them up chasing them
up and they haven't got back to us yet so hopefully they'll come in line fairly soon
um so yeah another thing with cruisers they've got long wheelbases that one's slightly longer
than this but for someone who's tall they are just perfect and you're nice and stretched out
you do see a lot of shorter people riding these bikes i know someone who bought one of these is
shorter than me and they brought the bars back which obviously you can do which will enable
you to ride it if you're shorter but it does look better having the bars in line with the
forks that kind of gives the aesthetic of the bike and so when you bring them back it looks
a bit wrong but obviously if you're short you've got no choice in that you can't grow your legs so
obviously you can ride them if shorter but for a taller rider they are just perfect
oh okay this is that's interesting your bike feels lighter than mine it's got a much lower center of
gravity um which would probably be largely to do with that engine but again nice riding position
feet are probably slightly further back than they are on my harley which is again to do
with those big cylinders but again i'm nice and stretched out it's comfortable riding position
and that is what we love there's a lot of sports bikes are so short and upright that we look like
some kind of circus act on them um and they're not very comfortable so they're not designed for
taller people in mind whereas these kind of are so that's uh something that we love about them now so
as you can see from the footage in the video this little drone is very impressive and it's
certainly something we're going to be using from now on in our videos not every video but pretty
much all of the videos if they're worth doing this will be used and i'm very very impressed
it followed you very easily all the way down the road you couldn't even see it it was that far away
and then it comes all the way back targets onto you very easily you can also use this
as a camcorder it comes with a little strap so you can just use it as a handheld camcorder
and it will last for three and a half hours doing that it lasts for 30 minutes in drone mode
which is impressive enough you can get all your shots in that time so this is an all-in-one
camera so if you are someone who's setting out you could buy this and you've got a drone a camcorder
something you can film everything with just in one camera so very impressive highly recommend it
and check out their other products as well darcy and i have planned some amazing ride outs on our
two bikes together in the next few months so keep watching to make sure you don't miss those videos
i've got a triumph booked in next week a special edition i won't say which one it is amazing
i can't wait to see it and after that we've got the royal enfield scram coming
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