The Low Rider was first introduced in 1977 as an offshoot of the Super Glide platform. Weight: 308 kg The Low Rider S corners well and encourages you to ride with license-threatening enthusiasm First Impressions Some NumbersĮngine: 1868 cc Milwaukee Eight 114 V-twin That latter model is a good one to reference here because to my mind the Low Rider S is the bike the FXDR is trying to be: sexy, powerful and a hell of a lot of fun to ride. Heaping servings of face-punching torque are to be had with a simple twist of the wrist, and dual front discs help provide more stopping power than you’ll find on just about every other Softail, save the Fat Bob and FXDR. That’s a claim some may need to take with a grain of salt – after all, we’re talking about a 308-kilogram motorcycle with a 1,615-millimeter wheelbase – but there’s no doubt the bike can thrill. The eleventh Softail to join the line-up since it was completely overhauled two years ago, the Low Rider S is pitched as a “performance” model. For those who are fans of Harley’s alphabet soup model designations, the Low Rider S is officially known as an FXDLS A good example of such a bike is the 2020 Low Rider S. That’s not to say there aren’t “better” bikes, ie, bikes better suited to doing something other than riding around in “angry monkey position,” laughing like a lunatic. But more than that it is a bike that, to my mind, captures the very essence of Harley-Davidson better than almost all the company’s other bikes. It’s a bike that speaks to some part of my soul I don’t fully understand. You may be aware that I love the Street Bob, probably – I’ll admit – to an unhealthy extent. “Is it better than the Street Bob ?” – This has become my de facto question when examining pretty much any big V-twin, but especially those in the Harley-Davidson Softail line-up.
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