continue the story of the twin-cylinder Harley Davidson with a new chapter ...
1966-1984 SHOVELHEAD
As we have to understand in time, if there is one thing I do hate the Milwaukee upsetting a technical project. It is said that the British were to be traditionalists, and that their very innovate then they have brought to ruin when the motion came as the Japanese Kamikaze 70 years, but also the Yankee mica joke!
I think attitude is not to denigrate the traditional, if something works well because it upset? It is not the absolute performance that customers are interested in this type of bike and how my grandfather always says "every which has the ass his master" thanks to this bucolic principle that a brand like Harley is kept alive and ... Thankfully, the "donkey" producing are beautiful.
said (forgive me, dear readers, but the premise was proper) let us analyze one of the most popular engines by myself: the Shovelhead.
Literally "shovel head" because of the shape of the head (imagination vote 10). The technological innovation of the engine is not complete, as tradition says, because the base is the same as the Panhead. The development is in the head is aluminum as well as the components of the distribution and a new air filter. 1200 cc for 60 hp and 4 speed gearbox. This
until 1970 when the Shovel evolves with the new base "nose cone", the replacement of the generator with an alternator and the ignition inside the housing right engine. It remains so until the 80's when it becomes 1340 and so has the innovative electronic ignition.
Loud and Proud
Alu
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