A rare and exotic bike in the UK at the time, a Harley FX 1200 from, I believe, 1976. This was deep in the period when AMF owned Harley Davidson and, as is generally acknowledged, produced some motorcycles of legendarily awful build quality.
That Harley survived this period whilst Triumph and Norton failed in Britain whilst producing similarly outdated but slightly better made machines is probably thanks to American protectionist economic policies more than anything else...
My interest in Harleys tends to wane somewhere soon after the early sixties. Milwaukee produce thereafter for me is generally a nice engine that could do with some better cycle parts. But that's all a matter of taste and of course millions of folk the world over love em. However, crappily built or not, the FX is really not a bad looking bike and still a rare beast these days on this side of the Atlantic.
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| 1976 Harley FX1200 in the UK (that's an old Transit van in the background!) |
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