1988 May Cycle Motorcycle Magazine Harley-Davidson Springer Softail FXSTS

Description: Yes we combine shipping for multiple purchases.Add multiple items to your cart and the combined shipping total will automatically be calculated. 1988 May Cycle Motorcycle Magazine - Harley-Davidson Springer Softail FXSTS 18 Harley-Davidson Springer Softail FXSTSWhen the Japanese copy the hardtail look.Harley reinvents the Springer front end.38 Yamaha FZR400See ya later: I hear my 14,000-rpm redline calling.58 Honda NX250Despite its looks, the most dirt this dual/sport bikecan stand is the dust on your camera lens.FEATURES71 Racers’ HandsSmall vignettes in body language caughtby a keen-eyed camera.By John Owens83 Aluminum Frames: A Close-Up LookExtrusions, Forgings, Castings: It 's amazingwhat you see when you really look.90 Blood On The SandParis-Dakar: A grand setting, a bloody race, a fiery aftermath.101 Product Evaluation: Conspicuity Vests/ see by your glowing stripes . .TECHNICAL31 The Springer ForkA rethink of an old idea—which also happensto be a good one.By Kevin Cameron47 The Next Step In Exhaust Tuning:Yamaha EXUPHow Yamaha s ‘ ‘Exhaust Ultimate Powervalve'' helpsmanage wave activity to produce a more tractablehigh-output four- stroke street bike.By Kevin CameronDEPARTMENTS1 Editorial/Hosto/P/7/7 Schilling8 Head On/Fast As Louis/Marlon J. Cook12 Letters/w/mps.'14 B'AslSpares/Tim Caruthers37 Newsline/SZiopp/np Maul/Tim Carrithers111Road Test Index112Pipeline/A/o Joke?/Jim Greening □It was supposed to be a secret—confidential, underwraps. Harley’s most radical fusion of past and present,code name FXSTS, was going to be real dead-of-night,eyes-only stuff. But leaving the anonymity of Cycle's garageunder cover of darkness, our manlooked in his rear-view mirror and sawtrouble: Six pumped-up, raked-out, tri-ple-chromed, lacquer-dippedchopperbikes had fallen in behind.The FXSTS is that kind of motor-cycle—it will draw the Harley faithfulin its wake for blocks, trying for alook. Even in the canyons, riding theSpringer with its great chromium forkthrust out in front is like touring withGrace Jones hanging on the pillion—people notice.The bikers we eluded with somedark alleys and a deft right turn. Forthe rest, the FXSTS remained justanother chrome-custom wonder. Butthis Springer—officially designated asa 1988 1/2 model—is brand new andstone stock.The first "S” in FXSTS stands for“Softail.” That you knew. The secondmeans "Springer," as in "Factory Springer," somethingunseen on stock H-Ds since 1949, when the last springer, orKinematic front end, gave way to progress and the Hydra-Glide telescopic fork.Scanning forward from the rakish, hot-rod flip of the rearfender, the FXSTS looks much like the standard SoftailFXST: 16-inch tire and wire rear wheel suspended by atriangulated steel swing arm and twin shocks running par-allel under the engine, creating the illusion of a hardtail rearend. Like the ST, the STS features a lowboy seatingposition—the saddle hovers barely two feet off the street.From the steering head back, the FXSTS is pure Softail: theFat Bob fuel tank spreads in a pool of pinstriped paint abovethe 80-inch Evolution V-twin engine.Up front, it’s all Springer; or, more accurately, the FXSTSsteers through a leading-link front end. And if you think theornate, chromed-plated fork looks like something out of aold-timey Harley catalog, then pat yourself once for partsrecognition—Vice-President and chief stylist Willie G. David-son charged both engineering and design departments withre-creating an exact replica of the 1948 H-D fork thatmeasured up to contemporary cruiser standards. That’s nomean feat. After computer-aided-design studies, finite ele-ment analyses and miles of testing, Harley engineers foundthemselves close to where their predecessors had left off,which is not as unbelievable as it sounds, considering thatthe original fork development began in 1908 and evolvedinto final form in 1948 (plus a few 1949 units)... And much more!

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