V-Rod Muscle Test: Harley-Davidson Shows Off The Muscle (s) !

While Harleys often evoke chrome, noise and torquey but placid engine, the V-Rod Muscle would almost embody the opposite: stocky like a Pitt-Bull and inspiring as much respect, the American also sends very big gas. Test !

If you go looking for trouble you’ll find it !

From then on, the pace happily accelerates … and the limits appear: on bumpy roads, the ABS is as responsive and borrowed as a teenager on the evening of his first time and is triggered unexpectedly at the slightest bump, lengthening by both braking distances …

Under these conditions, the adjustable preload rear assemblies quickly abdicate, first straining the pilot’s vertebrae, then whispering more and more insistently to slow down at the risk of no longer being able to register a train. front heavy and falling into the next curve !

Because by insisting, it becomes blurry and difficult to place. Especially at high speed where the pilot finds himself literally hooked to the handlebars, causing de facto slight steering movements due to the futile attempts to resist the air pressure and the fierceness of the twin cylinder !

Subject to this unreasonable rhythm, the toe clips are lifted happily before the silencer in turn signals its too great promiscuity with the asphalt! While Muscle hardly seems to be moved by it and does not seek to get back up, it should be borne in mind that the bike’s momentum alone is capable of propelling an overly daring crew out of the turn, despite a dosable and efficient rear brake !

Her thing is rather to provoke sensations: a mixture of hairy growths – to make Vincent Perrot’s dragsters turn pale! – and "muscular" exhibitions at each stop !

From then on, we would almost come close to the off-topic by reproaching him for his disdain displayed for the practical aspects: the on-board console, certainly quite complete (see technical sheet), is quite simply illegible with the sun in the back, the autonomy ( approximately 160 km before reserve) is penalized by high fuel consumption and the passenger seat is very spartan. Muscle requires blacksmith’s arms to avoid sitting on the fender with every acceleration !

At € 18,995 (€ 18,795 in black version), the V-Rod Muscle can boast of an encouraging start to its commercial career: Harley-Davidson France told us that the objective of 200 to 250 sales had been reached. this year !

Its strong visual impact and its explosive engine – perhaps too much for the faithful of the good old tumbled twin – will attract a clientele eager for sensations and extraordinary looks … all embellished with the Harley "touch" !

Anxious to stand out or to discover another facet of the American manufacturer, riding a V-Rod Muscle is clearly an assumed choice for attracted bikers – but not necessarily tattooed! – by the "Harley myth"… and who will not regret this passionate purchase! Because it’s not just this fantastic engine that deserves the name Revolution : the whole concept and its daring choices combine to reinforce this pleasing desire of the US manufacturer to sweep away received ideas! However, apart from Denis and the most resistant to changes, who will complain? ?

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