HARLEY-DAVIDSON SPORTSTER IS REBORN
A few months shy of its 65th birthday, the Harley-Davidson Sportster has been reborn. Switching from an air-cooled to liquid-cooled engine, there’s also a new frame, new styling, new instrumentation and an abundance – for a Sportster – of rider-assistance technologies. About the only thing that the new and old Sportsters share is the name!
Launched in the US in July, with North American sales due to commence shortly and Australia/New Zealand release before the end of the year, the new Sportster will arrive in one model variant initially, the Sportster ‘S’, but several spin-off variants are likely to be added.
The new Sportster is itself a spin-off – of sorts – in that it uses the same ‘Revolution Max’ platform as the Pan America 1250 adventure tourer that was launched earlier this year.
“The Sportster S is the next all-new motorcycle built on the Revolution Max platform and sets a new performance standard for
