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Double trouble. Harley-Davidson bang started Bike Week 2013 Friday morning with the absolution of its latest Softail motorcycle, the 2013 FXSB Breakout. If the name Breakout strikes a alarm it’s because Harley appear a CVO adaptation of the motorcycle aback in August of aftermost year. The assembly adaptation receives the aforementioned continued and low attitude with a little added adverse disposition than its forebear. The 2013 FXSB Breakout is the aboriginal CVO archetypal to be acclimatized as a assembly archetypal and served as the aboriginal time crews from both the CVO and accepted Harley curve collaborated to aftermath the two Breakout versions.
The 2013 Breakout rolls alpine and angular up advanced and advanced out back, its appearance atramentous Gasser casting aluminum caster a graceful 130mm advanced and 21-inches aerial while a 240mm block of Dunlop elastic dresses up the rear. Advancing 1.25-inch annoyance confined sit at the accessible aloft the able-bodied fork, the confined army aloft a four-inch riser with a speedo slickly congenital into the chrome risers. The advanced advanced angle juts out at a 37-degree rake angle while the advanced fender has been cut bottomward about as abundant as accurately possible.
In the average of the 67.3-inch amplitude of the wheelbase sits a almighty Twin Cam 103B engine, its machined fins and chrome covers allegory the atramentous powdercoated cylinders. The rigid-mounted V-Twin churns out a claimed 95.5 ft-lb torque @ 3000 rpm. Aloof abaft it sits a new appearance atramentous single-rib casting aluminum oil tank. Similar to the front, the rear fender has additionally been chopped down. The fender brace on the rear is the aboriginal artificial and able aluminum abutment after a corrective awning while base for the rear is buried beneath the brace. Chrome blunt-cut mufflers with appearance atramentous bouncer run bottomward the appropriate ancillary while a apple-pie side-mounted authorization bowl juts off the adverse ancillary and is a tidy custom-style touch.
The 2013 Breakout is accessible in Vivid Black, Big Blue Pearl and Ember Red Sunglo and lists at $17,899. An alternative ABS/security amalgamation is accessible for an added $1,195 but ABS does not appear standard. True to Harley form, a bulk of aftermarket genitalia are accessible and cat-and-mouse to booty the banal belvedere to the abutting level.
By the time you apprehend this, Motorcycle USA will be demography the 2013 Breakout for a 190-mile ride to St. Augustine and above afore branch aback to Daytona Beach for a run bottomward Main Street. Check us out on Twitter throughout the day to apprehend some of our aboriginal impressions of Harley’s latest Softail. The official columnist absolution is included beneath to accommodate added details.
The 2013 Harley-Davidson Breakout motorcycle is an burghal prowler, a bike accessible for a midnight constitutional to the bank or a rib collective affair with the crew. Green light? Crack the burke to bear a able-bodied dosage of American V-Twin torque and compose the city with a fat rear tire. The Breakout will be continued gone, forth with its rider’s inhibitions.
With accurate bluster that turns active in cartage and a appreciative attitude assertive to draw a curb-side army on bike night, the Breakout is presented as a exceptional archetypal in its articulation with characteristic finishes and specific apparatus not accessible on added Harley-Davidson bikes. Continued and low-slung, the Breakout appearance a 240mm rear annoy visually counterbalanced with blubbery forks and chopped fenders, while a baldheaded catchbasin animate and a annoyance handlebar accumulate the contour low. A Twin Cam 103B powertrain and added apparatus are akin in aflame chrome and gloss-black paint.
Like the acclaimed 2013 Custom Vehicle Operations (CVO) Breakout archetypal that precedes it, the Breakout appearance administration that’s smooth, tight, and advised to advertise the agent and the tires.
“With Breakout we got bottomward to motorcycle essentials, which agency emphasizing the powertrain and the wheels,” says Harley-Davidson Administration Manager Kirk Rasmussen. “The atramentous and chrome agent visually ancestor out of the centermost the bike, and again to aerate the appulse of the tires, the fenders are chopped. We capital a lot of elastic assuming to accord the Breakout a tough, able-bodied look.”
The Gasser auto are new and specific to the Breakout, according to Rasmussen.
“We’ve consistently admired the gasser-style annoyance antagonism auto from the 1960s and ‘70s,” says Rasmussen. “Our auto are about advancing by those classics. Each caster has 10 half-round spokes. The gloss-black powdercoat is machined abroad on alternating spokes and the rim angle to betrayal the aluminum beneath the paint.”
A gloss-black accomplishment is additionally activated to the new casting aluminum oil tank, as able-bodied as angle lowers, anchor rotors, muffler bouncer and the handlebar.
“To lower Breakout’s all-embracing profile, we placed the speedometer on the handlebar riser,” says Rasmussen, “and topped the ammunition catchbasin with a atramentous covering band that covers the seam, and a chrome-plated pod that’s aloof aerial abundant to burrow all-important base and aperture lines. The handlebar is a new arced annoyance angle that which I anticipate feels advancing back you ride.”
The Softail anatomy mimics the apple-pie curve of a best hardtail frame, but utilizes rear abeyance ascendancy provided by coil-over shock absorbers army angular and out of afterimage aural the anatomy rails. The Breakout is accessible with ABS (Anti-Lock Braking System) and the Harley-Davidson aegis arrangement as a factory-installed option.
Key Breakout Features• The Twin Cam 103B agent with 103-cid (1690cc), counter-balanced and rigid-mounted aural the frame, is rated at 95.5 ft. lbs. of torque at 3000 rpm. The agent is able with Electronic Sequential Port Ammunition Injection (ESPFI), and Automatic Compression Absolution (ACR), and is akin to a 6-speed Cruise Drive transmission.
• The powertrain is accomplished in atramentous powdercoat with chrome covers and gloss-black bouncer over chrome dual-staggered mufflers.
• Gasser-style 10-spoke casting aluminum auto are accomplished in gloss-black powdercoat with machined highlights; 8 by 18-inch rear and 3.5 by 21-inch front.
• Floating advanced and rear anchor rotors accept gloss-black carriers.
• Advanced and rear fenders are chopped. The advanced fender area and bracket are specific to the Breakout. The rear fender is shaped and positioned to fit abutting to the 240mm tire. One-piece artificial aluminum rear fender supports are awful polished.
• The advanced end spreads 49mm forks about 1.75-inches added than antecedent FX Softail models to acquiesce fitment of a 130mm advanced tire. The angle lowers and headlight brazier are accomplished in appearance black.
• New Single-Rib Casting Aluminum Oil Catchbasin is accomplished in appearance black.
• A five-gallon ammunition catchbasin is topped with a atramentous molded-leather band and a low-profilechrome cover.
• The two-piece bench appearance a commuter pillion that may be removed after accoutrement for abandoned benumbed and to absolutely betrayal the rear fender. Laden bench acme is 24.7 inches.
• An all-new advanced drag-style handlebar is accomplished in appearance black. The speedometer is army on the chrome pull-back handlebar riser.
• The side-mounted authorization bowl and aggregate stop/turn/tail lights leave the advanced rearfender uncluttered.
• The glass-filled ammunition catchbasin medallions and cartoon are absolute to the Breakout.
• Accessible solid colors accommodate Vivid Black, Big Blue Pearl and Ember Red Sunglo.
