although the "touring engines" have better counter balancing and mounting, so if it were bored to 114 it would be smoother than the softail engines. Always the problem is that a V-twin has "pulses" do to its configuration. Decades ago I took a paddle wheel up Loch Lomond and it sort of had a V-twin to drive the paddles wheel... you could feel the two piston pulse...… SPLASH SPLASH splash splash splash (etc.)..... BMW's had their boxer which does not have a pulse (but a lot of sideways torque. Hondas first gold wing had the engine and stator rotate in opposite directions so none of the torgue

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2018 M3W "Dreamers on the Rise"
2004 Plus 8 (wife's)
old Goldwings and a couple of Harleys