GOOD VIBRATIONS
Jul 01, 2020
4 minutes
WORDS: Michael Cowton
PHOTOGRAPHY
: Gary Chapman
I was enjoying a relaxing half-hour in the back garden with a coffee and a magazine, when the silence was broken by one of the most uniquely signature sounds in the world, a sound refined over the decades and bringing to mind that truism: 'You hear a Harley before you see it:
It is, of course, all down to the design of that superb V-Twin two-cylinder engine, which turns on its head the conventional design of a motorbike's pistons timed to fire alternately. For fear of preaching to the converted, traditionally, a crankshaft has two pins 180 degrees apart to which both pistons are connected. By contrast, Harley's V-Twin engine has cylinders arranged in a 45-degree 'V'
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