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In case you missed out, American top-notch Harley-Davidson has revealed not one, but eight redesigned cruiser motorcycles for the year 2018! This will be the firm’s largest product-development project ever.
The eight bikes are said to be major bikes of the brand and will be subject to big improvements and improvisations. It is also said that the new Harley-Davidson Softail models will be introduced with the most powerful engine ever offered on its cruisers.
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“The new Harley-Davidson Softail models are the result of the most extensive research and development program in the company’s history,” said Paul James, product portfolio manager.
“In the model year 2000, when Softails got the Twin Cam engine, the mantra was ‘We changed everything without changing a thing.’ Those bikes were all new and different, yet they cut the same style and look like the bikes they replaced. That was not the intent here. Our intent was to move this design language along.”
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Not to mention, the Softail and Dyna product lines are gone and are replaced by one platform for them all.
“The way they rode their bikes was a little bit different from the average Softail customer,” noted James, meaning they valued better handling and more lean angle – you know, the dynamic capability that was one of the stated goals of the Softail project. Of the two platforms, the Softail was always the prettier one. Keeping this goal in mind, James stresses that the new platform was “marrying the best of both worlds: the best attributes of Dyna with the best attributes of Softtail in this platform.”