Half car, half bike
Half car, half bike, it’s the 2010 Harley-Davidson Street Glide Trike
Before I rode Harley-Davidson’s new Street Glide Trike, my attitude about three-wheeled cruisers was that they were geezer machines – ridden by old guys whose backsides were as big as their bikes’. The thousands of dollars riders paid to convert their motorcycles into road-going half-breeds seemed a steep price to pay just to avoid putting their feet down.
But riding Harley’s latest, I learned otherwise. The trike’s attraction is even broader than its car-like width, appealing to the Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl (who was the first to get one — as a custom — even before the Street Glide Trike went i to production), the gang-bangers in my Northeast L.A. ‘hood and the guy in the Scion XB who threw a complimentary devil horn from his window less than a minute after I’d taken possession of my temporary wheels.
Powered with a 103-cubic-inch twin-cam engine, rather than the 96-incher on the regular Street Glide upon which it is based, the sporty 2010 Street Glide Trike is the second modern-day Harley-Davidson to be released as a three-wheeler. After a 36-year hiatus from triple-wheeled machines, Harley debuted its Tri Glide Ultra Classic last year, responding to customer requests for a trike that could be purchased off the floor and ready to ride instead of making buyers jump through the hoops of buying a motorcycle, purchasing a kit and ripping the motorcycle apart to convert it. The added benefit of a stock trike: matching wheels, matching paint and a full factory warranty that wasn’t voided by the conversion, all of it for less money.
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