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Three color variations
are being offered.
variable-rate springing, though
the shocks' laydown position may
help deliver improved compli-
ance. However, you must ab-
solutely take notice when you
start grinding out the not particu-
larly long hero tabs on the flip-up
footrests, especially on the right
side where if you ignore that early
warning the next thing to deck
out is the very sturdy exhaust
shroud, and that will indeed lift
the back wheel off the ground.
However, competent and
comfortable as the Street Rod
proved to be in the wide open
spaces of the Spanish mountain-
sides, and that relatively broad
and well-padded seat was very
accommodating over my 140-
mile day spent sitting on it, its
predominant design brief is as
an urban-focused hotrod, a role
it proved ideally suited to in stop-
start Ronda traffic, or at either
end of the day in Marbella's
ever more traffic-choked rush
hour. The clutch lever action is
light enough that your left hand
doesn't freeze up with repeated
use, and traffic manners are
good once you learn to kind of
preload the throttle in traffic to
eradicate that jerky pickup. The
eager-revving motor allows you
to launch away from stoplights
with ease, then scoot in and out
of traffic, squirting between cars
and trucks with room to spare.
It's a pretty fair approximation of
a Euro-style hooligan bike, but
with the Harley-Davidson name
