T must have taken enormous pressure and great fortitude for whoever signed off the project to hold his nerve and convince the bosses that the Street 750 was, er, the street Harley needed to go down.
I did really like the engine-chassis combination when we first rode it but we knew then that the motorcycle had room for improvement. The most glaring of the issues were the brakes which were amongst the most reluctant of all the disc brakes we have ever tested. They lacked feel and bite and they did produce brake force and then retardation but you needed Marv’s forearms.