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Originally Posted by peteremsley
its a water cooled v4 from what the article says... might not shake your bones too much!
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Everything I've read says V-twin. That makes more sense for Harley.
This actually looks like a pretty savvy move. As a naked twin sportbike, they are clearly not trying to be the pointy end of the spear as far as motorcycle performance. Leave that to the Japanese and Italians to squabble over, with the necessary year on year changes to keep up with the Joneses. This bike will represent real world, usable to mere mortals street performance in a platform that should be able to evolve at a pace that will not bankrupt the company in constant race shop R&D.
I see it as a good, solid platform that can offer many variants, like Ducati are doing with their Scrambler package. Or like H-D themselves have done for generations with only three basic motorcycles. Naked upright sport bike, add a fairing and bags - sport touring bike. Raise it up, add knobbies, adjustable windshield, rock guards, and ammo cans - adventure bike. Put a full fairing on it and clip-ons - canyon carver. Lots of potential here - we'll see what they do with it.