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Hands up. I’ve never been a Harley man. It’s not just <\/em> that I’ve never owned one. I’ve never bought into the whole burly, knuckleheaded, chrome clad idea<\/em> that is a Harley Davidson.<\/p>\n

It always seemed to me that that riding stance, that garrulous V-Twin – all those Harley-isms that put clear water between themselves and Euro-Japanese bike culture – were so essentially other than myself as a European biker that it would be absurd to aspire to their unreconstructed Americana.<\/p>\n

But my mind was changed recently whilst browsing in my local Ducati dealership (which happens of course to have a Harley outlet grafted onto the side, an extremely non-identical conjoined twin), when I glimpsed the latest XR 1200.<\/p>\n

With its flat tracker aesthetic, those trick pipes and powder coated engine – and especially in its stripey orange trim – this looks like the sort of bike I could own.<\/p>\n

We suppose that purist superbike jockeys will scoff at HD’s attempt to placate the other end of the market, and that card-carrying hog heads will wince also at such a jockish bike bearing the Harley Badge.<\/p>\n

But if anything, I have always occupied the section of the biker subcult that cares self-consciously about how bikes look, how they hold themselves; where they sit in the panoply of the biking tribe.<\/p>\n

I, on other words, am one of those bikers that fundamentalists of every hue can’t stand. So should the fact that I dig this Harley’s stance send the purists into a slathering frenzy of poseur-hate?<\/p>\n

You decide.<\/p>\n

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