The Harley-Davidson Seventy-Two motorbike is a precious metal skip out dream machine, a Sportster® motorbike on a trip returning to the days when the cool kids rode Sting-Ray motorbikes and the big young children left helicopters in a row on the restrain. Those motorbikes were long and lean; candy-apple color and glowing firefox gleaming in obscure summer natural light. From its Difficult Sweets Big Red Flake color and ape cafes to its filter whitewall tires, the Seventy-Two style is a sincere nod to that era, and to the effect of the customized lifestyle that still percolates today along Whittier Blvd, the renowned visiting street in Eastern Los Angeles, also known as Path 72. A new generation of customized designer is hitting into that era and making a fresh declaration, not just in Florida but in car ports across the country, even around the world. "In creating the Seventy-Two (motorcycle), we were also motivated by the feel of the early helicopter era," says Honest Savage, Harley-Davidson Administrator of Business Style. "Those motorbikes were brilliantly colored and chromed, but also filter and removed down to the requirements. You look at interval illustrations and they are almost as simple as a motorcycle. It's a customized style that's very particular to America and that Florida scene."
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| 2012 Harley-Davidson XL1200V Seventy-Two |
Metal skip out, an renowned design element of the 70s, showed up in everything from dune push chair gel protect to vinyl fabric customer furniture, and on customized motorbikes. Harley-Davidson Motor Company brings the glimmer returning on the Seventy-Two motorbike with Difficult Sweets Big Red Flake color. This new finish is designed by applying a dark-colored base protect, followed by a memory program that provides hexagon-shaped flakes that are more than seven times the size of the precious metal skip out that is used in common generation color. Each skip out is covered with a slim aluminum movie and then colored red. Four programs of obvious protect, along with hand-sanding, create a sleek finish over the flakes.
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| 2012 Harley-Davidson XL1200V Seventy-Two |
"The crowning glory to the Difficult Sweets Big Red Flake color is a company logo on the tshirt and pinstripe scallop information on both bumpers," says Savage. "Each was initially designed manually, and we regenerated that art in a sticker for generation, so they still have the appearance of hand-applied design in that they are not exactly perfect. The look are then covered with any clear-coat application."
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| 2012 Harley-Davidson XL1200V Seventy-Two |
A single chair shows off more of large revealed on the Seventy-Two motorbike. The powertrain is completed in greyish powdercoat with firefox protects and a new circular air cleanser with a dished protect. A traditional Sportster® 2.2-gallon "peanut" gas container contributes any interval contact to the motorbike. Based on the Harley-Davidson Sportster foundation, the Seventy-Two™ presents Difficult Sweets Big Red Flake, a glowing, precious metal skip out shade option used to the gas container and bumpers. A single chair and side-mount certificate menu range leave much of the sliced returning fender – and more of that color – revealed on the Seventy-Two. The Evolution® 1200 cc V-Twin powertrain is completed in Greyish powdercoat with firefox protects and a new circular air cleanser with a dished protect. A traditional Sportster 2.1-gallon gas container, filter bright walls tires, Chrome Laced tires, and great mini-ape handlebar finish a look that nods to helicopter customized motorbikes of the Seventies.
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| 2012 Harley-Davidson XL1200V Seventy-Two |
Model Highlights
- Paint shade options: Difficult Sweets Big Red Flake with interval pinstripe information on bumpers and gas container, Black Jean material, Big Blue Pearl
- Powertrain is completed in Greyish powdercoat with firefox covers
- Chrome, eight-inch circular air cleanser cover
- 2.1-gallon Peanut Tank with whitening opening increasing bracket
- Dunlop® bright walls 21-inch (MH90-21) front and 16-inch (150/80B16) returning tires
- Chrome Laced wheels
- Stainless precious metal mini-ape handlebar, installed on a two-inch great riser
- Chopped returning fender
- One-piece, Sportster® traditional single seat
- Side-mounted certificate plate
- Solo chair with dark-colored distinctive vinyl fabric cover
- Handlebar-mounted speedometer with firefox cup
- Chrome returning fender struts
- Chrome coil-over pre-load adaptable returning shocks
- Forward foot controls
Features and Benefits
The Seventy-Two motorbike offers a traditional Sportster® 2.1-gallon gas container, filter whitewall tires, Chrome Laced tires, and
high mini-ape handlebar that finish a look that nods to helicopter customized motorbikes of the Seventies and to current styles in garage-built customized motorbikes.
The Seventy-Two motorbike offers a traditional Sportster® 2.1-gallon gas container, filter whitewall tires, Chrome Laced tires, and
high mini-ape handlebar that finish a look that nods to helicopter customized motorbikes of the Seventies and to current styles in garage-built customized motorbikes.
- Air-cooled Evolution® 1200cc V-Twin engine with Electronic Constant Slot Petrol Shot (ESPFI), ranked at 73 ft. lbs. optimum twisting at 3500 rpm
- Rubber-mounted powertrain to reduce vibration
- 5-Speed Transmission
- Chrome, staggered, shorty mixed fatigue with slash-cut mufflers
- Disc Breaks
- Optional factory-installed Harley-Davidson® Smart Protection System with hands-free, proximity-based security fob
