With the motorcycle on the highway Number One: fantastic landscapes and all-round sonication

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With the motorcycle on the highway Number One

Fantastic landscapes and all-round sonication

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Robert Eckert
Along the Highway 49, namespace of the football team from San Francisco, Pittoreske rows a town from the Goldrush era

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Robert Eckert
Highway Number One: With the Harley by the USA

But what are numbers? The very exciting at the Harley is the bearige force that is already around forgotten. It’s just a desire to turn up the machine and snap the corridors with a rich clacks. The power can only be described with a word: sovereign. In combination with the 6-speed gearbox, the bike always offers sufficient performance – at least on US freeways. For much more than 80 miles or converted 130 km-kilometers, the two-wheeled upper class is not built from Harley. Finally, 400 kilo plus passengers and luggage should also be brought to stand. In this weight class that is generally no fun, but after all, a standard ABS supports the braking process.

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Robert Eckert The little Lee Vinning lives from Tourism: Conveniently located on the west bank of Mono Lakes and below the eastern entrance to the Yosemite National Park

Expensive limousine on two wheels

In the 2014 model year, Harley-Davidson has improved its SuperTourers in many details and offers the comfort of a sedan – just two wheels. The newly developed water cooling should preserve the driver from unpleasant heat radiation of the engine. Anyone who has once stood on a trimming hot freeway in the traffic jam knows that appreciated.

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The side pockets and the topcase in the stern were redesigned and offer enough storage space for a two-week motorcycle tour. Practical: small compartments in the panel for gloves and crims. Speaking of trim: Even if you scratch on the freeway on the speed limit of 80 miles, wind turbulence hardly disturb. Something protected by the drive wind, a juthelm is enough. Perfect: the on-board computer including Navi. The numerous functions can be easily operated with two joysticks.

Technical specifications

Harley-Davidson Electra Glide Ultra Limited model year 2014

Wheelbase: 1.625 meters

Seat height: 0.74 meters

Empty weight: 413 kg

Tank capacity: 22.7 liters


Air and part-water-cooled two-cylinder four-stroke engine capacity capacity: 1.690 CCM

Perfomance: 64 kW / 87 hp

Max. Torque: 138 Nm at 3.750 rpm

Consumption: (Combined city / overland) 5.6 l / 100 km

Price: from 27.495 euros

The most beautiful route to choose from

So-called "Points of Interest", So hotels, coffees or petrol stations find the system easily. Several route options are selectable. In addition to the fastest and the shortest, is also under "Scenic" the "most beautiful" Track selectable. Then one of the computers goes-safe via smaller highways to the desired location. The on-board computer can be easily connected to the phone that finds its place in a specially designed. The topic "Listen to music on a motorcycle" the ghosts divorce. For purists there is only one music and that’s the sound of the engine. However, who has hedged after a few thousand kilometers on the dull bubbers and grants of the two-cylinder, can the playlist of his smartphone or iPods from four speakers with 300 watts (!) enjoy. At higher speeds, the all-round sonication makes little sense, on slower stages, the sound is also surprisingly good by the helmet. And if you meet a men’s dream, then you can also drive on a bike through the desert and loudly smash an Evergreen from the Rolling Stones into the countryside – nobody bothers!

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Robert Eckert Back Home: Back in Los Angeles, right in Venice, we have reached our last destination after seven days in the saddle

American like an XXL burger with everything

With the motorcycle on the highway Number One: fantastic landscapes and all-round sonication-highway

The city is not the natural habitat of the Electra Glide. Due to vehicle columns to wags, there is already a bit courage and the U-turn on the traffic lights the road should be sufficiently wide. But whether in metropolises like Los Angeles or on the shallow land – with this machine you always make a good figure in the US and automatically belongs to the big family of the Harley driver.

On German roads, the thick bummer from Harley-Davidson is an exot. Such a street cruiser on two wheels just needs a lot of space and it is best in the vastness of the US West. The Electra Glide is as American as an XXL burger with everything: too big, too heavy, too expensive, simply unreasonable. But which dream is reasonable?

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