I’d completely forgotten how long the Forty-Eight has been around!
17th September 2010 is the date stamp on the first photograph, which doesn’t seem plausible.
I still consider it to be a ‘new’ model, which is an achievement in itself for a bike in a model range that is celebrating its 60th Anniversary this year. And while it is now has a rubber-mounted, fuel-injected motor, improved brakes and suspension, and it has been through the Dark Custom programme, it is still visibly a 4-cam Sportster that you can easily trace back to its roots in 1957.
But between the 2000 and 2017 model, which do you prefer?
The bridge hasn’t changed, in case you were wondering, although the river has had its ups and downs.