2005 Harley-Davidson® FLSTN - Softail® Deluxe

2005 Harley-Davidson® Softail® Deluxe

As with all Softails, the FLSTN comes with the Beta version of the Twin Cam engine. The B-model distinguishes itself with twin counter-rotating balancers that smooth the normal 45-degree V-Twin quaking and shaking right out, leaving the engine smooth enough to mount solidly in the Softail frame, with none of those rubber mounts as on Dynas and FLs. The difference is dramatic. Rubber engine mounting does an excellent job of isolating the vibration from Harley’s unbalanced Twin Cam Alpha at road speeds, but at the cost of amplified vibration and engine movement in the frame at idle. In contrast, the Deluxe’s air-cooled, fuel-injected 1450cc powerplant starts immediately and falls into an idle that elicits instant comments on its smoothness. At the lowest engine speeds, no other Harleys have less vibration than the Beta-equipped bikes. Head the machine down the road, get it up to interstate speed in top gear, and you feel an engine underneath you. It hums, it rumbles, it lets you know of each and every firing impulse, but all that really nasty electric shaking that made you never want to take an old, unbalanced Softail above 55 mph is gone, killed by the balancers. The Beta Twin Cam is a good engine, as this Deluxe again reminds.

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