HARLEY-DAVIDSON SPORTSTER S
Jan 20, 2022
5 minutes
WORDS – STUART
PHOTO – MARK WATSON, JOSH EVANS, H-D
WHEN I FIRST LOOKED at the new Sportster S in the flesh I was in two minds – is it an evolution of the V-Rod? Sorta, kinda, maybe not…or is it a real ‘Sportster’, true to the name? Sorta, kinda, maybe not. What it is however is a transposing head scratcher. To me it’s an urban mean machine which will get you all kinds of looks, and some of those looks will be weird ones as people, again, scratch their head looking at the mash up of design styles and the size of the front tyre and the huge upswept side pipes.
To achieve a custom look, H-D tucked the pill-shaped headlamp within the forks and placed the instrument display and the bar-end mirrors below the handlebar, creating a streamlined
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