While Peter Fonda’s chopper became the iconic bike from the iconic movie Easy Rider, Dennis Hopper’s Harley-Davidson was the more practical bike — and very much the inspiration for the current Street Bob, decades later.
There’s a low seat, high handlebars and, as the lightest of the 114-cubic-inchpowered Harleys, an ideal place to start your customisation dreams… so you could turn your Bob into Hopper’s Easy Rider.
Except you’d have nearly twice as much power and torque, rear suspension, tubeless tyres, LED lighting, ABS brakes, traction control, modern electronics… the list of improvements from the factory is almost endless, as it should be some 70 years after Hopper’s bike was built.
Despite the movie being made in the late ’60s, the bikes were nearly 20 years old even then — FL models.
IT’S ABOUT THE STYLE
People buy Street Bobs because they are very cool. That’s an old-school word, cool, but it’s not like many teenagers walk into Harley dealerships and drop $27,495
