You can see full specs for the machine here, along with more photos, and presumably a price tag in the very neat future. The X440 comes with all-round LED lighting, and even a TFT screen with speedo, fuel range, gear indicator, high beam, ABS and sidestand alerts, neutral light, check engine light, and integration to smartphone for navigation, music control, call answering and other mobile features, as long as you have the Connect 2.0 package included. The frame is a steel trellis arrangement.
The front brake (320 mm disc) and rear brake (240 mm disc) are from ByBre, Brembo’s Indian subsidiary, and dual-channel ABS is standard. In back, there are preload-adjustable dual shocks. Hero/Harley-Davidson spec’d a 43mm cartridge fork up front, from KYB. We’ve seen a claimed weight of 420 lb, but we don’t know if that’s a wet weight or dry weight. That sounds like an awful lot, but maybe it’s doable if you’re light on the throttle.
The X440 comes with a six-speed gearbox, chain drive, and claimed fuel economy of 35 km/liter, which works out to 82 miles per US gallon. Competitors like Royal Enfield or even Honda build India-market machines typically putting out less horsepower than you’d expect. Of course, that claim may have been been optimistic, but it sounds as if the X440 is a lot more along the lines of similar made-in-India cruisers and roadsters. To put that in perspective: Kawasaki’s KZ440 twin put out the same torque but a lot more horsepower (claimed 40 hp) from an engine developed 40 years ago. According to Harley-Davidson’s website, the fuel-injected air/oil-cooled single-cylinder engine puts out 28 lb-ft at 4,000 rpm and 27 hp at the crank at 6,000 rpm. The new Harley-Davidson X440 does not appear to be built along those lines. The Sportster was always Harley-Davidson’s equivalent to the pony car-without the muscle, flash and attitude of the Big Twins, but leaner and meaner than those machines, fast enough on its own terms. Here’s a really nerdy table that uses the much tighter Centistoke (Cst) testing scale, so we can compare brands with accuracy.Looks like a CGI paint job on this photo off Harley-Davidson’s India website? Whatever the case, this is another livery offering, along with black, gray and yellow. But, due to the international SAE standard being so loose, one oil company’s 5Wt can be the same viscosity as another’s 7.5Wt. So what oil should you use in your suspension? Most suspension units use approximately a 5Wt (SAE). Buying the right oil for your bike is very important as it can effect performance and the amount of wear-and-tear your bike receives.
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