ADVENTURE BIKE:
HARLEY DAVIDSON HERITAGE SOFTTAIL
Not The Lump I Thought It Was
Megan Governi
Apprehension. No! I tell a lie. Terror! That was the
only way to describe my feelings when told it was time
to climb aboard a 2018 Harley Davidson Heritage Soft-
tail. A heavy lumbering chunk of a machine. Not what
I thought could ever be described as an adventure ma-
chine ...
And this is where we should all step back and ask,
“what actually makes an adventure bike?”
I, like many others, had a preconception that Harley
Davidson’s aren’t suited to adventure, often told they
are too big, too heavy, too thirsty, too impractical … the
against comments just go on and on. Yet questioning
what makes an adventure bike, or more to the point,
what makes an adventure, had me thinking.
Isn’t an adventure more about a state of mind? About
what you experience? Have you done something differ-
ent? Where you challenged? I was starting to see that
perhaps this bike could be an adventure bike, a bike
TRAVERSE 67