AMERICAN MOTORCYCLE MUSCLE

HARLEY LOW RIDER S

The Harley-Davidson team is busy right now trying to save the company as we know it. Not from going broke — sales are down, but not that far down — but from its past.

For 2021 we’ll have the new adventure bike and streetfighter, as well as the electric Livewire machines, machines that really break the Harley-Davidson mould.

Harley is changing because its traditional customers aren’t buying bikes like they used to. Baby Boomers are getting seriously old and that’s the generation who wanted Harleys — youngsters, like me in my 50s, don’t. We want bikes with performance, handling and good looks.

So Harley built the Low Rider S, the only mainstream new model for Australia in 2020, for my generation. It’s under 30k, it has a style that reaches back to the 1980s (which is coincidentally when I learnt to ride)