Jack Briggs
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Back in late 1988, Honda introduced a beautiful little gem of a naked sportbike called the CB-1. With all of 400 cubic centimeters of displacement, the little liquid-cooled DOHC Four sprinted through the quarter mile in the upper 12-second bracket (at around 108 mph). Wide open, on a level surface on a cool-to-warm day, the little machine would top out in the low to mid 120s.
The closest HD ever came to that--until the V-Rod, that is--was with a machine Willie G. designed (or, rather, styled) in the mid-'70s, called the XLCR1000. It was a cafe-racer version of the Sportster. Nice-looking, but, technologically, still the same old thing.
Now, for $16,000, HD is giving you performance that can be easily excelled by any 600cc sportbike (including Tirumph's).
Talk about progress.
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[Edited last by Jack Briggs on October 24, 2001 at 12:43 PM]
The closest HD ever came to that--until the V-Rod, that is--was with a machine Willie G. designed (or, rather, styled) in the mid-'70s, called the XLCR1000. It was a cafe-racer version of the Sportster. Nice-looking, but, technologically, still the same old thing.
Now, for $16,000, HD is giving you performance that can be easily excelled by any 600cc sportbike (including Tirumph's).
Talk about progress.
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[Edited last by Jack Briggs on October 24, 2001 at 12:43 PM]