Beschreibung:

The late Dennis Hopper was an Oscar-nominated actor, a screenwriter, a director, a painter, a photographer, a sculptor, a serious collector of world-class art and, of course, he played 'Billy' to Peter Fonda's 'Captain America' in Easy Rider, the 1969 counterculture film responsible for kickstarting the chopper movement among America's motorcyclists. 'Easy Rider captured a pivotal moment in American history, the end of the '60s,' Hopper told Motorcyclist magazine in 2009, a year before his untimely death. 'It's like a time capsule. And at the same time, we wanted to make sort of a modern Western, which gives it a timeless quality. I'm proud that people still care about the movie.' Dennis Hopper's personal choice of a V-Rod power cruiser late in life was entirely appropriate. The early VRSC – V-twin Racing Street Custom – had a 1,131 cc Revolution liquid-cooled, DOHC v-twin motor pushing out 115 horsepower at the crank (claimed!) and thus could justify the 'muscle bike' label. Launched in 2001 it stayed in production until 2017. It was both mean and fast – soon proven by its drag racing successes – and by the then current standards of its factory brethren, it handled and stopped superbly. It was a thoroughly 'modern' Harley but that's not, it turned out, what the Harley community really wanted and so it never hit its sales goals although the Motor Company kept it live for 16 years. This heavily-custom-chromed V-Rod has been kept in long term storage but was recently serviced and is thus ready to be an 'easy rider' again. Saddle bags come with the bike.