Car Modification 2011

TweetEmail Bike tested: Harley Davidson FXS Softail Blackline Price OTR Mumbai: Rs. 15,00,000/- (estimated) There’s some marketing-driven concept somewhere to begin with and like any other mainstream motorcycle maker, a key part of Milwaukee-based Harley-Davidson’s (H-D) current business strategy is to attract a wider range of bikers with innovation. Currently, H-D offers 32 models and with new innovations coming in at regular intervals, bikers tastes ranging from traditional to urban can...Read Full Story

After some bumps in the road, Harley-Davidson is back in the saddle and riding high – or in the case of the Harley-Davidson FXS Blackline, riding low. This bad boy cruiser, which is essentially a Softail 'pared to the bone', has the lowest saddle height of any Harley-Davidson ever, at just over 600mm. It's so much of a low rider that even the pillion can touch down to help balance the motorcycle when stopped at a set of lights. Not that any self-respecting Harley-Davidson owner needs...Read Full Story

You’re usually a law-abiding citizen, but from the moment you plunk your hiney in the Blackline’s dished-out saddle hovering 26.1 inches off the ground – the lowest dual-saddle seat height Harley offers – you start to feel your inner rule-breaker emerge. Set your boots on the forward mounted pegs, lean forward to clasp those illegal-looking, narrowly spaced bars and let the thrust of the torque-biased Twin Cam 96B propel you down the road while bad thoughts of joining a subversive biker club...Read Full Story

Although the Blackline is fundamentally a familiar Softail, the H-D boys have made changes that pushed the legal limits. It all began by pulling the rear fender down as low as possible – the first thing done to this project – which helped bring the seat height down to 26.1 inches, the lowest two-up seat offered by the Milwaukee crew. Similarly, the mirrors are pushed inboard to the DOT minimum, and the upper triple clamp was made as thin (1 inch) as they could get away with while maintaining...Read Full Story

Harley-Davidson Softails have always shifted shape to match the custom trends of the day, from the Pro Street-styled Softail Deuce in the late '90s to the more recent, raked-out Rocker C. The new FXS Blackline's skinny rear tire and narrow drag bars mimic the Frisco-style choppers of the Hell's Angels' glory days, delivering exactly the stripped-down, vintage look that 2011 trendsters demand.Like most new Harleys, the Blackline is little more than an artful reblending of existing hardware and...Read Full Story