Unveiled to the columnist in Denver, Colorado, we saw the acknowledgment of the Advanced Glide to the Dyna ancestors and a glossy amend to the Softail Fat Boy, the Fat Boy Lo.
Also new is a appetizing Road Glide Custom bagger and an alike added comfortable tourer, the Electra Glide Ultra Limited. We’ll altercate the closing two in an accessible article, apperception actuality on the new Dyna and Softail cruisers.
The Dyna alternation is the atomic big-ticket way to get into a Big Twin Harley, starting at aloof $11,999 for the Super Glide model. Moving up in amount is the Street Bob and the Super Glide Custom, followed by this new Advanced Glide at a abject amount of $14,499. Dynas are calmly apparent by their apparent bifold rear shocks and underseat array box.
The WG gets its name from its wide-placed 49mm bend laid out in a acceptable chopper-style rake of 34 degrees. A constant administration affair is the adverse of atramentous and chrome. The advanced chrome triple-clamps are absolute with gloss-black handlebar clamps and risers, and this is mimicked in the 40-spoke auto with atramentous rims and the atramentous headlight brazier accent by a chrome bezel. Similarly, the agent is powdercoated atramentous and absolute by machined butt fins and chrome-plated rocker and derby covers.
Also creating its own personality aural the Dyna ancestors is a atramentous array box with a chrome “Wide Glide” logo, a mini afraid bar and a new two-into-one-into-two “Tommy Gun” bankrupt with slotted calefaction bouncer over the rear header. The advanced of its 4.7-gallon ammunition catchbasin is kicked up 0.75 inch for a jauntier bend that contributes to its chopper contour and the activity of sitting “in” the bike.
Like abounding of Harley’s new models, there is a focus on abbreviation bench heights to accord riders a greater activity of confidence. As such, both ends of the abeyance accept been cut bottomward to crop a bench aloof 25.5 inches from the ground. In comparison, the Dyna Super Glide’s bench is placed at 26.3 inches.
The aback end of the Advanced Glide is absorbing for two reasons. First, there is no acceptable stoplight, instead application the red-lens turnsignal lamps as stoplights as aboriginal apparent on the Nightster. This avant-garde adjustment and chopped rear fender provides an ultra-clean rear end. The hasty allotment of this adventure is that European regulations do not acquiesce such a system, so those on the Continent accept to ache with a acceptable taillamp as apparent in our activity photography. For a change, North Americans get acknowledgment being than the Euros!
