Australian Motorcyclist — December 2017

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to consider how anyone can actually
quantify the things that are more
important, like enjoyment. By now I
was beginning to kick back and think
that if there is a measurement for
enjoyment, it has to be how good
you feel riding the Heritage. It is like
the whole experience of riding in
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overload of iconic names and places
linked to almost every bit of music,
culture, maps and emotion in one
big hit. Epic has to be somewhere
on an enjoyment scale.
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great value, offering the new
technology in a touring platform
and placed just under the Road
King in the dollar stakes (and just
as importantly the weight stakes).
Riding it, I think I know where I
would be directing myself let alone a
bunch of mates.
You, and I mean YOU, have to ride
the Heritage. The combination of
wheel and tyre size will mean from
now on luxury doesn’t mean you
won’t be able to keep up. Okay I
would like another disc on the front

and I really do prefer the chrome

wheels and brighter engine of the

Deluxe, but the extra $4,000 dollars

over a 107 Deluxe gets a great deal

of bang and bling. The attention to

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only says more about me than

trying to organise the range into any

meaningful hierarchy.

I am happy to admit that for

many other riders, there is only

one universe, inhabited by just

one species and one style of

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is on the move, perhaps even into

some of those parallel universes.

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happy to just kick back and relax

after the effort that went into the

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some models to come in the

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