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Because of the fairly pokey bottom end, whisking up to 60 or 70mph actually quite rapidly, I sometimes found myself getting a little too carried away and attempting to overtake with a fistful of throttle, only to find there was a lot less left in the beast than I'd thought. Disconcerting and not a little embarrassing for me yes, but potentially lethal for someone with less experience of s - like your 'entry-level' target person for instance, someone who'd perhaps 'moved up' from a nippy Japanese to a big 'powerful' Although it would sound totally berserk and massively irresponsible to your average Joe Nazi, I would argue passionately that releasing the pent up power in an is just as an essential safety measure as are decent tyres, good brakes, leathers and a skid lid.

Money Talk Finally then we get down to it, the price. It is also very true however that you can buy a few very desirable bikes for that kind of money - but not half as many as a lot of people would like to think - they obviously haven't walked into anyone's bike shop for a while.

If nothing else was 'entry level' about the Sportster XLH, the price certainly is. The even more impressive thing is that the bike itself is extremely good. Even in its stock form it remains a credible piece of equipment - but it's when a potential owner turns their mind to customisation that I believe the XLH really starts to make an awful lot of sense.

Buy a new XL, preferably run it in carefully first to get the full benefit, then return it to the dealers for the stage one tune. A price which already compares extremely favourably with say a stock 53C and of course, that tuning really does make a load of difference to the motorcycle.

A Stage One tuned XL will certainly not be left standing next to a stock Custom, the stock Sportster Sport might just top it with its twin plug heads, more user friendly 'pipes and sharper ignition, but I am saying might. You'll pay a tad more on your yearly insurance, but soddit, you've plenty to gas about down the pub. Blimey eh, can't lose. Second Opinion: Words: Andy. The last time he said that was the Night Train, and while that was a good bike and has its place it wasn't under my backside or in my shed Still, "Objective-Roadtesters-R-Us" and you've got to give everything a chance and attempt to put personal preference behind you to an extent, so I took delivery of the Chrome Yellow single-seat Sportster and waved Rich off on the Road King.

It's a funny thing in roadtesting, is objectivity. It only comes after the first spell of familiarisation, which is very subjective and is all about personal likes and dislikes, and it includes the impression you have of a bike before even swinging a leg over it.

Personally, I've always loved the look of Sportsters but have always been disappointed by them when compared to the big twins. If I were going to buy a lightweight Harley it'd be a Dyna.

I love the engine characteristics, am grateful for the rubber-mounted engine, and their chuckability is enough for their power delivery in corners: slow in, power out.

My recollections of using Sportsters over-rides my enthusiasm for them in spite of my affection for their styling, and it is this which comes to the fore whenever a set of keys for one are handed my way, and that's a shame … or is it? Preconceived ideas are as often the making, as well as the breaking of any bike. We're all guilty of it: against his better judgement Rich was wooed by the Heritage Softail and the Dyna Wideglide, and when looking forward to reacquainting himself with the Deuce that he'd so enjoyed in , found that the Night Train was much more his sort of bike.

I'd been looking forward to swinging a leg over the Night Train and was less than enamoured with it, perhaps because I expected too much as I so desperately wanted to be impressed by that bike. As it happened, I much preferred the Deuce to ride, in spite of my misgivings about a number of the styling cues, which takes the factory custom too far for me. And so it was that I swung a reluctant leg over the - the things we do on your behalf!

I wasn't expecting to be impressed, I was hoping not to be too uncomfortable and hoped that then motor was a sweeter, less vibrant plant than its sibling. I looked down at the Screamin' Eagle airbox and cans and wondered how much that would affect the performance of the bike and - for no better reason than I had nowhere to go - used the bike in a cross-town role for a couple of days.

This is the bike's best chance to impress. Small, light, narrow, great gobs of low-down power compared to anything else of similar size and a riding stance that is just right for the job. Not s'bad after all, I mused. Not bad at all. A trip out of town was necessary, all fast A-roads and a mercifully camera-less stretch of tarmac through the open countryside, and I started to use the bike a bit more and reflected on the meat of Rich's "You'll like this" statement.

He'd said at the time, and almost immediately after a run out on similar roads, that the chassis is supremely confident, while overtaking required a little forethought. I agreed. I also noted that there was no chance that the chassis would not be stretched by the power of the engine, and concentrated on getting further and further down in the bends: confidence-inspiring, indeed, but still something to work at rather than marvel at as you do when your realise how far down, and how quickly you'd done the same corner on a Buell - which is a common sticking point between us.

If I were to be critical here, it is that it over-steers in the bends, but that is only based on expecting to be travelling faster, and rolling the power on when exiting the corner, which would ordinarily go some way towards straightening the bike up again.

This particular had neither speed going in, nor power on tap to wind it open on the exit, but I was having concerns about its motor anyway: it was talking the talk, through its free-breathing pipes, but it wouldn't walk the walk.

It wasn't revving freely … it was scarcely revving at all. It's not an issue on a big-twin as the torque carries the day, but the baby Sporty hasn't got enough sheer grunt to survive without working the engine As I got more used to it, I even got on my hands and knees to see if one of the pots wasn't getting warm: it was almost as though it was running on one cylinder. It was also making a top end squeaking noise from the top end - evident from the airbox and identified as coming from the engine breathers, but potentially attributable to the lighter performance airbox being more open to the elements.

It was fine when cold but it was squeaking at tickover with less than five minutes of heat. Nothing that a modest blip wouldn't cure, and attributed by a couple of people to induction noises, but I wasn't buying that.

A stock Sportster should spin readily and this wasn't. I am almost certain that is was the ignition timing being way too far retarded, but that was the final diagnosis during the hundred miles run back to Towcester.

There, it was switched for the bog-stock XL53C Sportster Custom, and that confirmed that our Stage 1 was not a happy bunny. The brakes, like the chassis, are not tested much by the engine, even in Stage 1 tune, but that should come as no surprise anymore now that Harley have got their act together with their 4-pot callipers. Just as the stiff frame is the same as used on the Sportster Sport and happily controls a full fifty percent more torque, the same brakes arrest the kg Super Glide, and the kg Heritage Softail, so the Sportster's modest kg won't tax them greatly.

To put a second disk on the front would be unnecessary: the Sport gets the twin disk treatment and is, if anything, overbraked. The last I rode was fitted with the diminutive 2. We don't have the choice now and the King Sporty tank has redefined the shape to such an extent that a flick back to old catalogues makes the original tank look tiny. I think it gets away with it because it has adopted the larger tank without necessarily the role that was thrust upon the earlier bike when so fitted: namely a scaled down medium-haul tourer.

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