{"id":2956,"date":"2019-09-13T11:55:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T09:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bravomo.eu\/intramontabile-sportster\/"},"modified":"2020-01-20T12:02:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T10:02:44","slug":"intramontabile-sportster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bravomo.eu\/en\/intramontabile-sportster\/","title":{"rendered":"Timeless Sportster"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bravomo.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/sportster-883-slice-1024x395.jpg\" alt=\"Sportster\" width=\"1024\" height=\"395\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Indeed very few motorcycles can boast 62 years of uninterrupted production, the Harley-Davidson Sportster (XL) is one of them. Harley-Davidson has started manufacturing\u00a0the Sportster since 1957 and continues to these days without interruption: an icon.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Another record of this bike is that it is equipped with the smaller air-cooled two-cylinder, the basic model has a displacement of &#8220;only&#8221; 883cc.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00a0guess that&#8217;s why many Sportster owners ask me: is it worth <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bravomo.eu\/en\/remote-tuning\/\">tuning<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>The answer is yes and the numbers contained in the following dyno graph give the reasons.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bravomo.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20-touring-road-king-special.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2918\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3306\" style=\"width: 1261px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bravomo.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/XL883-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3306\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3306\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bravomo.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/XL883-1.png\" alt=\"XL883 dyno graph\" width=\"1251\" height=\"703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bravomo.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/XL883-1.png 1251w, https:\/\/www.bravomo.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/XL883-1-980x551.png 980w, https:\/\/www.bravomo.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/XL883-1-480x270.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1251px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3306\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red lines: before Tuning, Blue lines: after Tuning<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"attachment_2764\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2764\" class=\"wp-image-2764 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bravomo.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Harley-Davidson-Sportster-1957.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bravomo.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Harley-Davidson-Sportster-1957.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bravomo.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Harley-Davidson-Sportster-1957-980x654.jpeg 980w, https:\/\/www.bravomo.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Harley-Davidson-Sportster-1957-480x320.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2764\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1957 Sportster XL<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":2957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bravomo.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bravomo.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bravomo.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bravomo.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bravomo.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bravomo.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bravomo.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bravomo.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bravomo.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bravomo.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}