Motorcycle specifications Harley-DavidsonXG 750 STREET 2018 First Harley
presentation of the XG 750 STREET 2018
no changes in 2018 for Milwaukee's entry-level model (apart from a new white 'Bonneville Salt Pearl' color that replaces the blue). The 750 Street waited until 2017 to be fitted with ABS. In any case, it had no choice if it wanted to continue its career. A journey with a few pitfalls... or rather, a few grievances From Milwaukee fans themselves, who find it hard to see the Street as an authentic Harley.
So, for the first time, the most accessible of the H-D models received an anti-lock braking system, as well as a lower seat height, new levers, a redesigned dashboard, a better-integrated wiring harness, an LED taillight and a standard alarm.
but how can we explain the bike's low rating and its disavowal by bikers? Let's take a look at its appearance and specific features, which are far removed from the original philosophy of MoCo models. This machine strikes where you least expect it: it's a new type of H-D, and its engine is water-cooled!
not a Sportster, not a Dyna, not a Softail... The Street belongs to none of the families in the Harley range. What a slap in the face to archaic old-timers, those who coughed when the Dyna appeared and choked on the birth of the V-Rod. A new family from the Milwaukee-based manufacturer only appears once a decade... No, it's even longer.
So who cares about the technical-historical side of things? The important thing is that this bike is now the gateway to the Harley range. It's the cheapest, the lightest, and the smallest in displacement.
we used to discover the world of Milwaukee with 883 cm3. The passport is now in 3/4 liter, with a totally new engine. A twin, of course, which is not open at 45° like most Harley blocks, but at 60° like the V-Rods. But that's not the only thing it has in common. There's also liquid cooling, 4 valves per cylinder and a single ACT. Combined with a 6-speed gearbox and belt drive, the "Revolution X" engine comes in two sizes (we'll only know the larger one). The stroke is identical for each version (66 mm), with only the bore changing. At 69 mm, we get a cubic capacity of 494 cm3; pushing the bore to 85 mm increases displacement to 749 cm3. However, being the smallest HD block doesn't mean being apathetic. It's rated at 57 hp at 7,500 rpm, virtually the same as the 883. The latter retains the torque advantage. The Revolution X will have to make do with 59 Nm at 4000 rpm.
But why water-cool it? It doesn't put out many watts, and almost all H-D twins cool themselves with air/metal contact. Because the Street, as its name implies, is designed for cruising around town, spending time in traffic jams and waiting at red lights. Liquid cooling is the only way to ensure consistent performance despite urban constraints. And anti-pollution standards are not far off...
the Street has chosen an engine that is more"d'jeun" than the current production, which is in keeping with its target clientele. Around this core, the machine corresponds to Harley standards. A very classic double-cradle steel frame, a minimalist dashboard, a pair of side shocks, a single brake disc per wheel, a raw, leather and metal look. And a strong predisposition to customization. There are a few little treats on offer, such as fork gussets, a symbolic windscreen covering the headlight, and sheared cylinder-head fins.
Reasonable in terms of cubic capacity, this mini-Harley also knows how to keep its weight down. On the scales, it weighs in at 226 kilos fully loaded. That's 30 kilos less than the previous lightest Harley, the Sportster 883, and half that of the heaviest, the CVO 1800 Limited.
infused as it is with American chauvinism, the Street is a daughter of globalization. Designed in the States, yet manufactured in India. Let's qualify the statement: Street models for the US market are made in Kansas; the rest of the world is supplied by machines produced near New Dehli.
////////////// RECALL CAMPAIGN //////////////
In April 2019, the Milwaukee-based firm detected a corrosion concern that could affect the brake caliper of its Street 750 and Street Rod 750 produced between May 19, 2015 and June 12, 2018. The American brand has not specified the number of machines affected by this recall, but all registered owners have received a letter inviting them to visit a dealership for a change of the offending parts.
Serial numbers of affected motorcycles :
E11 * 2002/24 * 1687 * 01
e11 * 168/2013 * 00216 * 01 * 02
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Key facts Harley-Davidson XG 750 STREET (2018) : What you need to know before you buy
Highlights
- Accessible
Weak points
- but not a real Harley for purists
Prices
| Basic version | |
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 France |
7,490€
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Performance
- Max speed : approximately 150 km/h (93.20 mph)
- Average fuel consumption : 4.60 liters/100km (0.51 mpg)
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Estimated range
: 285 km (177 miles)
Calculated range until tank is empty, not verified.
Specifications Harley-Davidson XG 750 STREET 2018
- Chassis
- Frame : steel cradle
- Fuel capacity : 13.10 liters (3.46 US gallons)
- Seat height : 720 mm (28.35 in)
- Length : 2,225 mm (87.60 in)
- Width : 820 mm (32.28 in)
- Wheelbase : 1,535 mm (60.43 in)
- Dry weight : 206 kg (454 lb)
- Weight when fully loaded : 222 kg (489 lb)
- Front axle
- Telescopic fork Ø 37 mm, Wheel travel : 140 mm (5.51 in)
- Braking 1 disc Ø 300 mm (11.81 in), 2-piston caliper
- Front tire : 100 / 80 - 17 → Order this type of tire
- Transmission
- 6 stage gearbox
- Secondary belt drive
- Rear axle
- 2 lateral shock absorbers, Wheel travel : 89 mm (3.50 in)
- Braking 1 disc Ø 300 mm (11.81 in), 2-piston caliper
- Rear tire : 140 / 75 - 15 → Order this type of tire
- Motor
- two-cylinder 60° V-shape , 4 strokes
- Injection Ø 38 mm
- Cooling system : liquid
- 1 ACT
- 4 valves per cylinder
- 749 cc (Bore x stroke: 85 x 66 mm)
- 58 ch (57.20 hp) to 8,000 rpm
- 6.10 mkg to 4,000 rpm
- Power-to-weight ratio : 3.6 kg/ch
- Weight / torque ratio : 33.77 kg/mkg
- Compression : 11 : 1
- Standard equipment
- Brake assist : ABS
- Practical information
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Bikers' reviews Leave a review - 30 reviews
As the owner of a 2017 XG 750 Street ABS, I'm going to tell you how I feel about it. This bike is perfect for easy use and quite respectable performance (well over 150Kmh... notice for the tester the Street has a 6-speed gearbox; butter!). The only fault I found was the forks were too soft, a problem solved with a higher oil viscosity. Braking is very good: the front isn't biting and the rear is effective (it's well known that the Americans brake with their feet...). Comfort-wise, it's top-notch, and when you're driving or stopped, your whole body doesn't vibrate... to each his own. Protection is adequate, but you could do better by changing the fairing. Fuel consumption is very low given the engine's displacement. Here's a bike that some people criticize for x or y reasons, but you just have to make the distinction by comparing like with like. Another point: mine wasn't
parts assembled in the US are for the most part made in Asia, so stop believing that Chinese or Asians are dumber than others... I love my mob and it has a very particular loock that I adore. Last but not least, I'm not a young biker, but rather one who's nearing the end (as late as possible, of course). Good vibes! Rating : 4/5 Respond to interceptor
thank you very much. Rating : 1/5 Respond to dongnaicu
For an affordable price, you can enter a unique world, which had put me off until now; but here, the vibrations are contained, the handling excellent, the acceleration convincing, the controls obvious! A natural way to go from Japanese to American. Yesss! Rating : 4/5 Respond to Hubair
thank you Rating : 3/5 Respond to mascagne
Let's do a quick "before/after" analysis:
1) The working conditions of Harley employees. Before, almost all work was done by hand in the USA, even when automation was possible and financially more profitable.
Now it's going to end up like Harley clothing, with everything made in India or China...., with job losses for Americans and working conditions for the dullards worthy of Soviet gulags.
2) The quality of materials and assembly. In the past (except for the AMF era), Harley motorcycles were well assembled and aged very well, especially the quality of steel.
Today that's less true, and I know something about it, having bought a fuel-injected sportster. The chromes and mechanical characteristics of the steels aren't too bad, but they're a far cry from what you'd find on an old fatboy, for example. And on the 750 street ... frankly, it's a disaster, I feel sorry for the mechanics... it promises a lot of cracks and breakages during reassembly and assembly... an insult to future customers, well below the Japanese manufacturers, even in the entry-level range.
3) The selling price, which 750 harley praises as a low price (the fashion due to shareholders and the Chinese, where it's better to sell a lot of cheap crap than little high-end expensive stuff, but in the end it's the customer who loses the most in this little game even if he's convinced of the contrary at the start).
So harley propagandizes its 750 on the low purchase price... 7,950â'¬ in full black and 8,150â'¬ if you want it in color (not forgetting the commissioning tax that all Harley dealers charge, ranging from 100 to 250â'¬ depending on model, period and dealership).
How much does an Intruder M800 cost (in my opinion, well above the 750 street in terms of feel and build quality)? 8 200â'¬.
So it's clear that the super-attractive price is a red herring, and that at this level Harley can't and NEVER will be able to compete with the Japanese, or else everything will have to be made in India to the lowest possible quality, but in that case the Japanese will be way out in front when it comes to quality.
4) Harley presents the exceptional performance of its 750, sometimes making comparisons with big twin bikes in terms of displacement/power.
Once again, stupid and without objectivity, because big twin engines are long or even very long stroke engines, depending on the model. The result, as everyone knows, is an inability to develop too many horsepower/liters, and the danger of making these engines run too fast, otherwise reliability will collapse.
On the other hand, they offer good torque and unforgettable sensations.
So the deliberate act of comparing their models with Harley's is just more smoke and mirrors, like comparing an American truck with a small turbo... yes, at hp/liter, the turbo l'atomizes, but they don't have the same design, destination or lifespan.
Yes, if a long-stroke engine like a Harley can't take too much power (due to the forces exerted and the enormous masses of such an engine), that doesn't mean they're unreliable if you respect the basics of physics and warm-up times. Quite the contrary, I've known guys with 350 or even one with 500,000km and the original engines. Here again, I doubt that the 750 Street will demonstrate such reliability, even when well respected.
When Harley dares to use the desire for performance as an excuse for this incoherent horror that is the 750 Street, they must not have looked at the performance of the competition...
5) Harley doesn't talk about sensations, and for good reason: they're non-existent on this model. In wanting to give up their engine architecture and the special features that make it so fabulous, Harley has produced a machine that's easy, with no vibration, insipid, a lifeless thing that's just used to get from point A to point B. That's not a Harley.
A harley is the machine that makes you want to make the journey last forever, that shows you it exists, with an uneven engine cycle that gives it that special sound, with vibrations... a journey through time, an experience.
6) Then there are the potential customers, who take these considerations badly, thinking it's for their own good, and out of contempt for the price... it's because they haven't understood what Harley is, Harley isn't a word written on a tank to show off on the beach in August, but an engine, with an architecture that's not only its own, but one of the last to date.
What's the point of buying a bike just for the word Harley if it doesn't have the soul and feel of a Harley?
I don't know if I'm making myself clear, but... imagine if Ferrari came out with a low-end car tomorrow, like a 50-hp, 4-cylinder Twingo, would you buy it just because it said Ferrari on it?
It's the same thing.
I put my hands down that ALL buyers of the 750 Street will regret it, and most of them in the short term.
It no longer has any trump cards or special features in the face of the competition, nor can it compete with the Chinese products it's copying (the old copycats, copying but not equaling lol).
The motorcycle world is dying, just like the automobile world before it. Before, there were a lot of tests or mechanical characteristics specific to each brand, so Guzzi, Minareli, BMW, Ducati, today they're all sinking into standardization, all doing the same thing.
Like cars, they're almost all in-line 4-cylinder, 4-stroke, liquid-cooled, 16-valve... youhouu vive les sensations et l\'originalité.
Motorcycles are heading for the same foolishness, with the same 4-cylinder, 4-stroke, liquid-cooled engines... etc
And the motorcycle journalists applaud, what a catastrophe. Rating : 1/5 Respond to Franck
Good position but it's not all fun for the moment !!!!!! Rating : 2/5 Respond to CALOU
I have the same problem. Do you have a solution as it has been in the garage for two weeks
Colt
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But then to have a bike made with crappy parts and an anemic engine ...what's the point????
As for the lack of sensations you describe...that's what it's all about, because there are plenty of them out there today in this category!!!!! Rating : 3/5 Respond to Maxbuster
You make the lowest-quality vehicles you've ever made, drop the price a bit to make a bigger margin, and call bullshit gold?
That's what Harley is starting to do with this bike.
1) Motorcycle journalists (who are not objective, since they receive an impressive number of gifts, vacations, vehicles, motorcycle equipment, kickbacks... from many manufacturers...) tell us that this Harley is the first with a price that doesn't make a mockery of the customer.
The truth is that this bike uses materials, alloys and chromes of infinitely lower quality than previous models, and the old Harleys, like mine, were made 100% in the USA, with some models totally assembled by hand, from the spokes to the indicators...
This Harley 750 will be made in India!
This means that Harley doesn't care about the workers and, above all, the buyers!
2) Pseudo-journalists tell us that this Harley is finally good for the city...
is this a joke or have you never sat on a Harley ?
Take a sportster, even an old one, and you'll see it was a bike once.
3) We're told that this harley is finally comfortable and allows you to ride 200km without tiring... I've ridden 600km in a single day several times, and I don't really see what these nice people are getting at... it was fine before (unless you had a rigid, and if you had a fatboy or an heirloom... your 750 in terms of comfort... ciao).
4) We're told it's a revolution, something for young people at last... and that it's going to fight on Japanese soil.
If you buy a Harley without the character, sound, etc. of Harley, it's useless... so you buy it because you don't like the engine character, nor the raw sensations, but the counters and the paper perf... problem: the Japanese will do this much better for the same price, at 2000â'¬ less...
All Harley stands to gain is a bullet in the foot, and the Japanese have to start laughing.
5) Then, to boost confidence, we're told that this harley is finally easy to ride. Since I was 24, I've been riding Harleys, and all of them, from the little sportster to the fatboy to the chopper, have been disconcertingly easy to ride (when it gets hard to ride, it's because of extreme set-ups like suicide controls, handlebars that are really too high, exaggerated fork inclination, rear wheel that's really too wide...). So this excuse doesn't hold water.
6) The truth is that this harley shows the future of harley, I m\'explique harley to circumvent the EURO3 standards (which are twisted and not at all for the ecology..but good..) used d\'artifice, but we arrive at the end of the possibilities weakly expensive and problematic.
So, in the long term, Harley will be obliged to bring out a liquid-cooled motorcycle, not to reduce pollution, but to be within the range of the tests... a bit like diesel, which we were told was less polluting, with figures that are in fact more so...
Another point: for the past few years, Harley has been selling garments made mostly in India or even China and/or Taiwan, of poor quality with Harley written on them that they sell for 10x the price of an identical garment made in the same factory... so they figure that doing the same with their motorcycles will give them margins that would make the worst shareholder fantasize.
The problem is that it'll end up like our factories in France... Americans will lose their jobs en masse, they won't buy Harleys any more because they're disgusted by the new policy, and enthusiasts like me who bought this rather than another brand will switch brands because what made Harleys so charming (above all, the uncluttered character of the engine and the quality of the materials) won't buy Harleys either.
Those who want sporty, sanitized machines that are easy and/or high-performance will go elsewhere too.
In the medium term, the few buyers who remain faithful simply out of idiocy and without explanation will realize that the quality has changed and that the price is almost identical to what it was before (with manufacturing costs cut to the bone thanks to the use of slaves and Indian laborers).
It's all the more difficult to understand their current and future policies when you know that Harleys almost went under a few decades ago, precisely because of their quality, which for a time had plummeted, and other worries... they were able to survive in part thanks to certain managers, and above all by bringing out high-quality models with a renewed character and authenticity all their own. So why make the same mistakes again?
Rating : 1/5 Respond to Franck
How much do you charge per session to read the future? Because p..... you're a real psychic...
And yes, I'm going to buy that 750, buddy, I already did... It's a good thing Harley isn't going to follow your way of seeing the future, because it would already be bankrupt... I can tell you that the budget suits me fine and that I would certainly never have bought Harley if the 750 didn't exist! One thing's for sure: the 750 will give a huge number of people the chance to start riding... With Harley and to grow old with Harley and therefore continue to buy Harley! After the 750, I might move on to an 883, then fat boy etc... So the 750 will have had the effect of getting people to buy Harley who might never have done so, and then building up their loyalty with the wide existing range! Anyway... I'll get my license, then the 750! And I hope I won't run into any uptight people like you! Rating : 4/5 Participate in the conversation
with all you're telling us, buy an MZ made in the heyday of Eastern Europe.
Don't worry about your macro-economics.
You're probably a nice guy, but you're no fun. A bit like Olivier Besancenot. We can understand his bullshit ideas, because we like his down-to-earth look, but he bores the crap out of us.
I'd recommend the Peugeot scooter, which looks like a leftist bobo who's not rich.
But as you're a connoisseur of Harley and the world economy, you can also live in Yugstown, the capital of American economic decline, where you'll be able to dispense your vision of the capitalist empire to the bosses of major American brands (cars, household appliances...), who'll puncture it like a common Korean tire on a Romanian hard shoulder.
Come on, buddy, stop watching the news and take your Brelon for a walk. It's not good for your good vibrations... Rating : 4/5 Participate in the conversation
i've just been reading and some people are saying that it's not a motorcycle, that it's not a Harley or that you have to be broke to buy it
I've been riding motorcycles for 33 years and I can see that some people's motorcycling spirit is nowhere to be found. What do you think, that everyone loves your bike, that just because you ride a 15,000 euro bike, you're better than everyone else?
What a beautiful mentality, a Harley and a motorcycle like all the others: simple
whether you like it or not, and criticize the person who buys it as an idiot, I say no. If that person likes it, that's the main thing, but to blow your top and deprive yourself of riding for 1 month a year. That's stupid, and that's what happens to people who ride Harleys
Look at them in winter. They call themselves bikers. Sunday bikers they are
so M keep your criticisms to yourself, especially those that have nothing to do with the performance of this simple bike because it doesn't look like yours
Kind regards Rating : 5/5 Respond to thieery
just one thing: do they have to make such ugly bikes? phew! they've had a bunch of pretty machines anyway.... will there be a way, like on the others, to have parts catalogs without us being taken for change purses? I'm still curious to see it arrive. Rating : 1/5 Respond to l\'zode
A motorcycle for all those who cut their wine with water.
The delta between this Harley substitute and an authentic 883 is too small.
Rating : 1/5 Respond to Charvers
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i am handicapped following several accidents (1 on a motorcycle in the early 70's)
i can no longer ride a motorcycle because they're too heavy for me
l'idéal serait quelle quelle automatique comme une americaine quoi
an HD one at that!
you forgot to mention the mill timing and the type of linkage
made in India, that doesn't bother me, it's quality now
it's like when people talk about Taiwan and joke about reliability, those who don't ride kymco and other sym n'en have never had one!
i'm not going to list all the machines I've ridden since 1970, but some of you would have tears in your eyes!
thank you for this test and your impressions
bye Rating : 5/5 Respond to tintin
I'm not against producing a new liquid-cooled engine, and I'm not against 750cc either
but let's have this Harley made in the United States for their market and in India for France and the rest of the world, at a price approaching 8000 euros!
We're really being taken for fools, and some of these fools are going to buy this bike anyway (not me!)
I suppose that on the American market, if they offered this Harley, not made at home, but in India, they wouldn't even buy it!
What a horror! Rating : 1/5 Respond to Nico2A