TWINS TIMES TWO

摘要

When it comes to cruisers, much like you, we are manly men. Supersize us. We want cylinder bores you can stick a boot through. Torque numbers that would do a tugboat proud. Bigger is better. Greater is grander. More is mo' better. Or is it? One of the unfortunate byproducts of big-inch cruiser motors has been an accompanying increase in overall vehicle weight and size. We became acutely aware of this excess a couple of summers ago during our mega-cruiser "Sturgis Shootout." Fully fueled, three of our testbikes were at or above 800 pounds! Gastric bypass candidates. Just lifting them off their sidestands required firmly planted feet, a pretty good heave-ho...and maybe a properly adjusted truss. By comparison, the Harley-Davidson-whose forebears were nicknamed "Hogs," remember-seemed positively petite. "Do motorcycles really have to be this big?" one of our crew asked.