Harley Freewheeler Trike Review, Is It Any Good?

[Music] all right folks we're on the try the freewheeler uh Harley freewheeler tri-glide thing this is weird this is very strange it actually rides more like a motorcycle in some sense than I expected it's a little bumpier is it bumpier I think it's bumpier because because you have more yeah you literally have more tires going over bumps right there's more bumps to hit so it's bumpier oh the steering is weird though I don't know if I like that I don't know if I like this I don't know how fast I could go around corners this is a strange feeling oh God oh God oh my God I don't know about this then Ah that's weird power's good just a 114 I assume something like that I don't know how much power you need in a freaking strike anyway it's okay it's like I just it steers like a freaking three-wheeler uh you know it feels like a three-wheeler like a Honda you know big red or something man you really got to put some Force In These Bars wow you know I just like don't know if you can really tip one of these over and I don't want today to be the day that I find out you can't we're just gonna take it a little bit easier on these Corners once you're going in a straight line though that's where this thing is happy right at home going in a straight line so this is basically just a Road King with two extra wheels or an extra wheel oh ah it doesn't handle bumps as well as a motorcycle I don't think which is weird I guess I would have expected to be better on bombs because it's got more of like a car suspension and I would say cars typically handle better than bikes but I guess not let's have it oh man that is okay ah know if I like this on the highway so it has a steering stabilizer which makes the steering that much heavier it's a little Twitchy not horribly so but it's just like maybe it's just because I'm not used to it too it's like a little twitching Ah that's weird I mean uh it's just not a motorcycle I don't know that I can give it a fair review because I've just written I've never ridden something like this it's a very different experience though I don't know man it's just like like it's like wants to Dart around a little bit like it's the steering is heavy but the first quarter inch is like super light so it's just like the whole bike just wants to drift a little but I guess motorcycle's doing I don't know dread let's just test this link to break it breaks seem good I always wondered on uh you know I'm trying how the brakes would be they seemed pretty good that's cool oh man I I just don't know about this I don't know about this guys the sharp Corners okay ah it's weird now this thing could use a screaming eagle 135. oh that's I'm curious how this turned how I negotiate this turn lighting the steering the whole time it's it's very unnatural it's like ah I don't know I'm trying kind of at a loss for words it's like it's not bad it's not inherently bad it's so much different it's not okay maybe this is a good way to explain it a motorcycle is like a ballet right you go through the turns you lean you do whatever this thing is like you're muscling it through corners it's like taking a drag car like a drag racing car doesn't want to inherently turn it's like a drag racing car with slicks in the back it'll turn you just gotta kind of make it and it's not his favorite thing to do trying to rip man gotta test this thing out for you guys it it doesn't but it feels like it's just gonna understeer horribly that's the best way I can describe it you have one tiny front tire trying to turn two giant rear tires and it actually turns well you can turn relatively Sharp designed well it just just like it's just gonna plow through the corner it's not a confidence inspiring that being said if you ride one for hundreds and hundreds of thousands of miles I'm sure you get pretty used to it you can probably rip this thing pretty good I am not talking bad about the bike it so I'm saying I'm not an experienced rider onset tribe and I don't know that it is something I get used to right away I also don't know that it's for me just in general I really love two-wheeled motorcycles it's these brakes out I think brakes are good though that rare those rear tires got a lot of traction I'm sure kind of want to like get on the brakes let's do that let's freaking slam them I want to see how they work I was actually curious about that from the video oh that's good yeah that sounds pretty good the back tires do start to lock up though so you really gotta squeeze that front lever I wasn't on the front brakes quite enough you know even though it's one tire in the front it nose dies in it the tire gets gripped I always wondered how these things stopped so that's kind of why I wanted to do that do one more maybe and the brakes are linked so you can just grab a handful of lever and get most of your stopping power based on the video that I watched oh boy that's okay I don't know that was cool it seems like a lot of speed for that corner but you can really cruise around at normal speeds though I'm starting to get more used to it on the back roads it's it's actually not horrible you just gotta like you gotta remember how it turns and just push your way through it it's fine still out in the wind you know if you can freaking walk or something I get it I get it um yeah I'm starting to get more used to it I I made a video way back when on trikes versus bikes having never ridden a try in retrospect I don't think I was particularly wrong on the video but I wish I had ridden one first because you know kind of dumb to talk about something without having done it before and I don't even know that a little Five Ten Mile ride's enough to really say either but at least it's something right at least I gave it a shot experience you dumb over the whole damn arms they just let you do things that you know experience different things that you'd never otherwise have the money or time to do like I can't afford to buy random bikes to ride them for a while I mean I guess you could find used to provide it for a few months try to turn around and sell it for what you paid but that's annoying and you get taxes and registration costs all that stuff so you just go these demos and if you go into multiple demo events you can get 100 miles on a bike before you buy it you know relatively quickly and see what you think of it I'm sure I'm sure these demo events sell bikes they must they must help out so on bumpy roads it is not bad but it starts that whole like front end Wiggly feeling does seem to be slightly exaggerated so there is that oh boy oh I gotta get used to these Corners man that's brutal Indian has that's Indian demo like electric bikes that's kind of neat and then you gotta remember the width you gotta ride this in the center of the lane because you can't it's actually not really that much wider than saddlebags on a Touring bike it's wider but it's not crazy so you don't feel too bad which is good somebody did a burnout my man's is not paying any attention to anything going on whatsoever I don't even want to get next to him I don't trust him see look at that I'm a idiot my mans jeez people gotta have situational awareness it's a three-lane road yeah I know it's like behind the track and it's a little weird but it's a road like any other Road you know treat it as such anyway thanks for watching guys God bless America and I'll see you in the next one

Channel: Engineering Gone Wrong

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Id: 9lG25tDDxE0

Length: 10min 10sec (610 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 20 2023