I’ve never seen a shovel head get 200,000 miles. Wish they would get American to do these videos, and let the English stick to their own bikes. Maybe then they’ll know what they’re talking about.
I was thinking the same thing. Maybe miles are less distance in Europe? Prolly went alot more miles then a British machine though. I always liked British motorcycles, but they did wear out fast if used daily.
As a shovel head owner (3) and rider of them for 50 years along with many of my brothers the answer is yes they do go 200K + with rebuilds dah ..can’t rebuild that jap crap
Guys, this isn’t an Englishman talking, it’s an AI voiceover. Kinda glossed over the Buells by only showing one picture of an S3 with Buellised motor, then the Rotax-engined XBR.
Totally misleading info here; no engine's forever, not the ones on any motorcycle nor the ones on any kind of vehicle, land, sea and air. Second, if you like to ride more than you wrench, stay away from vintage engines, including the evo (It's just a bloody worldwide myth spread by internet warriors that it's the best engine Harley ever made.....bullcrap!), it's just the nature of the beast. Just get over it and move on god damn it!
In the 80s. There was a frame and engine in the back of EZ Rider magazine. It was a Vtwin that used Chevy 350 pistons and rods and valves.A old friend of mine bought one. He put ungodly amount of miles on it without any major problems. The main problem was finding any mechanic to service this motor. He learned to work on it himself. It used a stock HD transmission. Wonder what happened to this genuis motor?
The Super Vee...basically a slice of a Chev V8....I think it was more scam than brilliant idea....as I can't think of any that actually were built and running..
Have personally seen 75,000 on oe shovel engine, on 83 FLH Sport with rear belt drive and was still going strong. Single cam 84 to 90s Evos do even better.
I had to do ring and valve jobs on my shovels every 25 k miles.In the 60s HD parts were relatively cheap.Im sick of fake computer english accents on RUclips !
@@kennethsnider3456 yap we used to tell the suckers that road them they need to drag a tarp behind them to catch the parts coming off and to ride at the back of the pack so we didn’t get hit by parts flying at us
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So many mistakes, I had to stop when they said knuckles had aluminum heads..
I’ve never seen a shovel head get 200,000 miles. Wish they would get American to do these videos, and let the English stick to their own bikes. Maybe then they’ll know what they’re talking about.
I was thinking the same thing.
Maybe miles are less distance in Europe?
Prolly went alot more miles then a British machine though.
I always liked British motorcycles, but they did wear out fast if used daily.
Flat head made till 1970 lol
@@aaronclark3209 For police trikes they did.....
@@aaronclark3209in Servi-Cars only for most of those years 😂
As a shovel head owner (3) and rider of them for 50 years along with many of my brothers the answer is yes they do go 200K + with rebuilds dah ..can’t rebuild that jap crap
Guys, this isn’t an Englishman talking, it’s an AI voiceover. Kinda glossed over the Buells by only showing one picture of an S3 with Buellised motor, then the Rotax-engined XBR.
Ya know I almost said an AI Englishman should know that. !! lol
Totally misleading info here; no engine's forever, not the ones on any motorcycle nor the ones on any kind of vehicle, land, sea and air.
Second, if you like to ride more than you wrench, stay away from vintage engines, including the evo (It's just a bloody worldwide myth spread by internet warriors that it's the best engine Harley ever made.....bullcrap!), it's just the nature of the beast. Just get over it and move on god damn it!
Where are the victorys
In the 80s. There was a frame and engine in the back of EZ Rider magazine. It was a Vtwin that used Chevy 350 pistons and rods and valves.A old friend of mine bought one. He put ungodly amount of miles on it without any major problems. The main problem was finding any mechanic to service this motor. He learned to work on it himself. It used a stock HD transmission. Wonder what happened to this genuis motor?
The Super Vee...basically a slice of a Chev V8....I think it was more scam than brilliant idea....as I can't think of any that actually were built and running..
Super cycle mag
Have personally seen 75,000 on oe shovel engine, on 83 FLH Sport with rear belt drive and was still going strong. Single cam 84 to 90s Evos do even better.
The wild one ?? I thought brando was on a triumph not knuckle...
Yu im rite brando was on his 650 triumph thunder bird. The caracter chino was on a hd tho.
Lee Marvin was on a Harley Davidson.
Crap, l want my time back
Brando had a Triumph. You would think an Englishman would know that
he didn't mention who rode the knuck, it was Marvin
@@martincvitkovich724 Lee was the real deal Semper Fi
@@martincvitkovich724 PS according to the "google machine' Lee Marvin rode a Hydra-Glide in the movie, "The Wild One", which I believe is a Panhead
@@mpista7182 i was only a decade off. when that flick was made pans were fairly new. they did a good job making that pan look old
I had to do ring and valve jobs on my shovels every 25 k miles.In the 60s HD parts were relatively cheap.Im sick of fake computer english accents on RUclips !
Yes me too every 20 k to 25 k.
Dude you DON'T know your Harley's
You lost me at the Ironhead. that engine was a piece of junk that was constantly needing wrenched.
@@kennethsnider3456 yap we used to tell the suckers that road them they need to drag a tarp behind them to catch the parts coming off and to ride at the back of the pack so we didn’t get hit by parts flying at us
That first Harley in the video was a mid 70's 1,000 cc shovel head not a 883 i owned them brand new .
This was painful for 2 minutes and now im done.
An air cooled engine with the cylinders 45 degrees was a poor design. There all old junk by todays standards!
And any moment now the sky will be full of flying p[gs....
The Goldwing was built in Marysville Ohio until 2011 and 200k is just nicely broken in.😅
This guy just doesn't really know what he is really talking about. Sorry 😢
only aluminum head knuckle I've ever heard of and cast iron head shovelhead also, funny BS here.
Extremely boring to listen to. Anyway, my own engine is a 100CID Revtec. And I love it :-)
Who wrote this crap???
BS
ai bs