In addition to the new Street Bob (p21), Breakout and Fat Bob and Boy, there are four members of Harley’s all-new Softail family.
These are the 1970s-styled Low Rider, the Softail Slim (a now more blacked-out, narrow-tyred version of the Fat Boy), the Deluxe and, here, the Heritage Classic.
All, as before, are based around the all-new, monoshock Softail frame but with a variety of swingarms and head angles, plus uprated Milwaukee-Eight engines, along with an array of styling and detail changes.
But of these final four it’s probably the Deluxe and, here, the new Heritage that have had the biggest styling makeover. In short, where the old Heritage was a 1950s-style chrome ‘n’ tassels cruiser complete with plexi-screen and studded panniers, the new goes for a more 1940s, WWII,…
