Harley’s Salt Rock angel loves the open road

With the roar of the engine and the wind in her long curly locks, Venezuelan-born Sonia Gonzalez loves nothing more than cruising around on her Harley-Davidson Softail Fat Bob 114.

She has the 2018 version, when the Fat Bob was completely redesigned along with the entire Harley-Davidson softail lineup.

Gonzalez, a mechanical engineer by trade, found the Fat Bob totally by chance; she previously had a Harley-Davidson Superglide, the 2007 version.

“That one was a bit too big and heavy for me to handle,” she said.

While at a bike show, she was asked if she wanted to test drive the new Fat Bob, which she did.

It was a perfect match size-wise, allowing for better handling.

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The Salt Rock resident bought the bike in February this year as a birthday gift for herself. She specifically wanted the off-white colour which gives the bike an elegant feel. It has an 1868 cc engine and is very powerful, she said, which allows her to keep up with her biker friends.

Gonzalez rides with a couple of other bikers including her partner. They ride to the Midlands, taking the back roads and stopping off for beers. Gonzalez also loves taking trips to Clarens.

She has plans to customise the bike a bit – she wants to remove the silencers and put on straight through pipes to make space for paniers to be fitted at the back for her touring trips.

“I would love to do a ride along the Garden Route.”

Working on bikes is not something new to Gonzalez, she previously fixed up an old Yamaha TT600 as a gift for her partner.

She has no plans to upgrade her Fat Bob as she says the 2019 model is very similar to the 2018.

So for now it is just her, her Harley and the long open road!

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