{"id":42234,"date":"2017-08-23T09:35:22","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T13:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motorcyclemojo.com\/?p=42234"},"modified":"2020-07-16T16:55:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T20:55:37","slug":"milwaukees-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motorcyclemojo.com\/2017\/08\/milwaukees-monster\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee\u2019s Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Can Harley\u2019s newest midsize offering impress on some of Europe\u2019s finest motorcycle roads?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The invitation could hardly have been more specific, and enticing. \u201cYou are invited to Marbella, Spain, to view, ride and understand the new Harley-Davidson Street Rod. You will be able to ride the new model in urban and country locations for a full day, including along two of the routes widely recognized as being among the most enjoyable and demanding biking roads in Europe. You will ride along the twisting A366 tarmac roller coaster via El Burgo to the historic city of Ronda, spectacularly located in the mountains above Marbella. You will then descend back to Marbella along the legendary A397 \u2013 a sinuous length of challenging road steeped in automotive and motorcycling history.\u201d Yes, please!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hang on, though \u2013 you\u2019re inviting me to ride a Harley along those fabulous racer roads where I\u2019ve had the thrill of exploiting the performance and especially the handling of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">successive Ducati, Triumph, KTM, BMW and Yamaha models down the years \u2013 and have left witness marks to say \u201cI Was Here!\u201d by grinding their footrests in the asphalt to prove it. So, what can this new Street Rod be then? A Harley that handles?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Europe Every Time<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-42249\" src=\"http:\/\/motorcyclemojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/New-Street-Rod_stc_007-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"The 2017 Harley Davidson Street Rod\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">Harley-Davidson Europe was indeed confident enough in the company\u2019s new Street Rod model to invite me to tackle the Ronda roads on it. That contrasted with Harley\u2019s head office, which held its U.S. press launch in Florida, where anything other than a right-angle turn is alien territory, and elevation an abstract concept. Okay, so it was Bike Week in Daytona \u2013 but even so, gentlemen, you should have had more faith in what your R&amp;D guys have come up with. Their job may have been to produce an urban streetfighter aimed at bringing younger riders into the Harley fold, but the result is a great deal more than that, which deserves to be ridden hard and not simply treated as a simple traffic tool, effective as it may be at this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A 220 km high-speed day\u2019s ride along some of the most demanding two-wheeled territory in Europe indeed underlined the broad capabilities of Harley\u2019s new Street Rod package, in delivering H-D dealers with a genuine rival to the Triumph Street Twin, Yamaha FZ-07, and especially the Ducati Monster 797 and its Scrambler cousins \u2013 albeit one with a truly American personality at a super-competitive price. \u201cWe\u2019re reaching out to customers in a space where we didn\u2019t really have a product before now, who are already perhaps well-disposed toward Harley-Davidson, but haven\u2019t yet found the bike in our lineup to meet their needs,\u201d Jeff Strunk, H-D\u2019s motorcycle product planning manager, says. \u201cThey\u2019re primarily a younger crowd, living in a more urban environment, looking for a bike to get around on in a more exciting way.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Purchase the issue to continue reading<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can Harley\u2019s newest midsize offering impress on some of Europe\u2019s finest motorcycle roads? 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