The Road Glide is built for touring on the open road, not for poking around town, but to get out of town most of us need to crawl through the ’burbs, and so it is when I pick up this hefty hunk of American iron from Harley-Davidson’s HQ in Sydney’s north.
First up there’s the off-camber righthander as soon as I exit Harley’s driveway, and then there’s the crappy roadworks all along the Warringah Freeway on the approach to the Harbour Tunnel, with multiple lanes of traffic funnelling into just two for the underwater run. And then there’s the stop-start traffic as I fight my way to escape the ever-expanding urban sprawl.
It’s in conditions like this that being fully aware of the Road Glide’s size and weight is vitally important. While you can still weave your way through traffic, you have to make sure there’s plenty of margin for
