Harley-Davidson releases all-new Breakout motorcycle
Press Relase
March 8, 2013
MILWAUKEE, WIS., March 8—Harley-Davidson announced the release of the all-new 2013 Breakout, described as “an urban prowler, a bike ready for a midnight ramble to the roadhouse or a rib joint rendezvous with the crew,” according to The Motor Company. 2013 Harley-Davidson Breakout The Breakout is... Read more »
Harley-Davidson 2013 OE Model Year Press Launch
Ernie Copper
November 6, 2012
BELLINGHAM, WASH., AUG. 12-16—When I arrived at the Hotel Bellweather on Bellingham Bay in Washington State for Harley-Davidson’s 2013 model year press launch, it didn’t take long before my curiosity about The Motor Company’s 2013 lineup was satisfied. Prior to our evening’s dinner, Jen Hoyer,... Read more »
2013 Harley-Davidson CVO model press launch
Clement Salvadori
October 19, 2012
CARMEL, CALIF., July 10-11 — You’ve got to hand it to Milwaukee’s marketing mavens: They do know how to move bikes. Back in 1999 when the company started the Custom Vehicle Operation there were many, especially in the press, who wondered out loud if this were truly a wise idea, to make already... Read more »
2012 Harley-Davidson XL1200V Sportster Seventy-Two
Terry Roorda
September 10, 2012
“Whittier is to the vast Chicano barrio in East Los Angeles what the Sunset Strip is to Hollywood. This is where the street action lives: The bars, the hustlers, the drug market, the whores—and also the riots, the trashings, killings, gassings, the sporadic bloody clashes with the hated, common enemy:... Read more »
2012 Harley-Davidson FLS Softail Slim
Terry Roorda
July 21, 2012
Unless your name is Heritage, Fat Boy or Deluxe, life on the Softail platform can be brutish and short. Those are the sole models that have managed to survive the flux and turnover since 2009 when eight models filled out the roster. Cut from the lineup in the intervening years have been five models,... Read more »
Harley-Davidson 2012 FLD Dyna Switchback ride review
Terry Roorda
April 2, 2012
Ever since the unveiling of the new FLD Switchback last summer, the universal impulse has been to compare it to something else. The most widespread comparison has understandably been to the Road King, Harley’s long-running minimalist touring model which with its stock windscreen and hard saddlebags... Read more »
2012 Harley-Davidson Sportster Seventy-Two and FLS Softail Slim
PJ Hyland
March 12, 2012
I must admit, the “wow factor” associated with an unadulterated first viewing of a pair of new Harley-Davidson models was denied to this reporter. Times being what they are, images of the bikes had already appeared on the Internet before the official press unveiling and I’d wound up getting a... Read more »
Custom Vehicle Operations FLSTSE3 Softail Convertible ride review
Terry Roorda
February 20, 2012
Consider the loneliness of the CVO Convertible. It is a bike without peer, a cohort of one, an outlier, a motherless child. Consider this: Among its ostensible stablemates in the Custom Vehicle Operations barn, it is the sole non-Touring platform model, and has been for a couple of years, and the only... Read more »
Harley-Davidson FLTRU Road Glide Ultra 2012 ride review
Terry Roorda
December 20, 2011
We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like “I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive…” Thus begins Hunter Thompson’s defining masterwork, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; A Savage Journey to the Heart... Read more »
Harley-Davidson 2012 model year press launch
Terry Roorda
September 20, 2011
Park City, Utah, August 3—There are a number of pleasant surprises in Harley-Davidson’s 2012 model year line-up, but none of them came as much of a surprise when the moto-press corps convened at the St. Regis Deer Valley resort in this uber-chic mountain aerie for the official unveiling. The lack... Read more »
