Goodman Hds Rides Again, Finally
GOODMAN HDS RIDES AGAIN, FINALLY
IF YOU'VE BEEN LUSTING after a Goodman HDS since you saw the bike reviewed in these pages (Cycle World, March, 1992), there's good news and bad news.
Remember the HDS? It’s the Harley Sportster-powered café racer built around a Norton Featherbed-replica frame by Simon Goodman of Goodman Engineering. Goodman has had his HDS prototype on the road for two years and during that time has built a few specially ordered machines. But now interest in the bike has heated up in the wake of additional press attention.
As a result, additional units of the HDS are rolling out of Goodman’s shop, but only after the buyer puts down a deposit with his order, and waits three months for his bike to be built. That’s the good news.
The bad news is that the HDS’s price, to American buyers, is 11,750 pounds, which at presstime was the equivalent of about $17,900. Steep? You bet. But there’s an alternative. You can spend $12,200 on a rolling chassis and supply your own engine. If that sounds to you like a plan, you can contact Goodman Engineering’s English factory by dialing 011-44-386-832090.
