Greatest Ever Motorcycle: #10 - Harley Davidson Knucklehead

Year: 1936
Power: 36 HP
Engine capacity: 1,340 ccm
Weight: no info
Top speed: 145 km/h
Rank: 10th Greatest Ever Motorbike

complete list here: http://whoridesavespa.com/2007/01/17/10-greatest-ever-motorbikes/

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[thorold]

All this arguing... I own an 04 sportster, it's my first 'big bike', it has never once let me down- just last weekend I did a 700 mile round trip with no problems and I plan to do the same trip in three weeks. I love it because of the sound, and the lines of the bike. I don't see why that's a bad thing- the sound itself necessarily means a loss in performance (energy loss, right?) and the lines of my bike make it less aerodynamic... So what? If don't require 180mph crouched forward, I'll happil

[JACKtheRIPP3R189]

@MrJimmy1437 In fairness at the time the bike in the video was made Harleys were serious motorcycles, now they're mostly clumsy barges that sell nostalgia and a bunch of tacky merchandise to middle aged guys with phallic insecurity at a premium price.

[RideFreeTours]

They are all fun. 

[nimaxx38]

Harley's are the best. If they could make a street bike that doesn't look gay and sound terrible then I'd buy it. Harley and dacati

[MrJimmy1437]

@JACKtheRIPP3R189 Harley is in a catch-22 situation. Years ago when they could have made modern bikes, the davidsons, were cheap scotchman and would not spend the money. Now they have the money and the engineers but their customers are such

idiots they will not let them. Everytime harley has talked about something new, the fool customers say no. give us that old junk that goes boom, boom!

[trackend]

Harleys are great when they run

[sqweezel]

My Honda wants to be a Harley.

[TheWrectify]

i love knuckleheads, one of the best looking engines ever, quality might not be the best

in the description it says 36 knuckleheads were 1340 cc's, there was never an 80 cube knuckle (1340 cc) there was one 61 cubes (939) and 74 cubes (1200)

not sure if it was covered in previous comments (im not gonna look), i just wanted to point that out (obsesive compulsive disorder can be a bitch sometimes hahaha

[TAMPAHARLEYGROUP]

Awesome stuff

[JACKtheRIPP3R189]

@MrJimmy1437 Don't get me wrong, i like classic bikes but they shouldn't be the only thing in the lineup. Triumph makes cool remakes like the bonneville and the thruxton, but also makes great street bikes like the street triple and daytona 675. Harley's are simply too heavy, too slow, and handle too poorly to be taken seriously as anything other than image pieces. As for sex or performance, i went for both and bought a Ducati 1198sp, now the HD riders can't even say i can't afford a harley ahaha

[JACKtheRIPP3R189]

@MrJimmy1437 Exactly, they tried (and succeeded) at cashing in on the oldschool biker image, and for awhile it was actually true. Now even the true "biker dude" image is gone from them, with silly dealerships in every strip of highway that runs through the burbs in which half of the store is goddamn clothing. Performance may not be the point of cruiser bikes, but even their sportsters will get absolutely manhandled by jap/euro bikes for less money.

[MrJimmy1437]

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