I’ve listened to this a few times. I’m well into my 70’s and this video reminds me of an old favorite vinyl record.. one that you just keep putting on the “Victrola” every so often.
They all sound cool with drags pipes on. But the Shovel sounds the coolest, especially when you set the idle real low. potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato.
Absolutely agree, it was the pinnacle of sound and beauty. I dream of the Knuckle engine developed by Flathead Power in Sweden. S&S bough it up and sells it as theirs now. They squeezed 160 naturally aspirated horses out of one of those for test/racing. 😁
With the stator on my 2020 softail standard going out at 3k miles, id definitely agree with your statement, and me coming from Honda motorcycles. Saying that, warranty is covering it, and even though i put close to 12K no problem miles other than oil changes, and a chain on my 2017 Honda rebel, Harley motorcycles are incredible. Cant wait for my warranty to finish so i can finally wrench on her.
@@thedakotahurley I mean I do enjoy a good engine rumble like some of these have, but if all the company is really known for anymore is a high price and a loud engine then I think I'll look elsewhere. Also some of their bikes can weigh upwards of 1200lbs or more and that's just too much. I was walking to work a couple years ago and some guy was coming out of an alleyway on his big new Harley bike and dropped it right before the actual street. I asked if he needed help, yes of course. I asked how much the bike weighed when the two of us failed to lift it, he responds with a hearty "oh about a thousand pounds." I asked why he didn't get a lighter bike instead and he comes back with this gem; "all my life Harley's were known as the best cruiser bike you could own." After which I informed him that Suzuki made a cruiser bike that's equally well built, can be made to sound equally as loud, is less than half the price, and ten times as reliable after 10 years on average than anything Harley makes. He thanked me and went on his way. A month later I see him again on a brand new Suzuki, he waves me down and ecstatically tells me about how light his new bike is at a mere 600lbs! With 20 more horsepower than his old bike at too while also being a lower displacement. Harley bikes are like Gucci bags and Beats headphones; they cost a lot, they make you look cool, but in a practical sense there is absolutely no reason to buy that piece of trash.
Shovel head on generator lower cases. Healthier sound than later shovels because of the generator whine. Just seem to work. Always loved the 1200s. Just personal preference.
Listening to them all is musical 🎵 but nothing like hearing them roll through a canyon going through the gears. I will say that Milwaukee motor sounds great 👍🏻 Harley Davidson for ever! ~FTW~
Evo's for ever 800 years from now there'll be an Evo still running somewhere on earth best Harley motor ever made they should of kept that motor in production its perfection . I'm still riding one from the 1990s never misses a beat .
How do you bury an M8 ? WITH A SHOVEL By far the most value visceral riding experience That distinctive lope at idle, the solid mounted tooth jarring hit of each slug, the savage roar coming off the line, and that WWII warplane sound at full song on the highway. Hell, even the smell of leaking oil on hot headers and the S&S super carb. I have owned a few bikes but nothing compares to the feeling of that’71 FLH punched out to 84”.
That's my bike.....1984 shovel head....damn I miss that bike, and the idle was like no other.....it was a love hate relationship.....I think I pushed that bike as much as I rode it 😂
