You could well be right, but aesthetics are at least somewhat subjective, and I love the look of the newer valks, especially from the seat. It's the ergos I could never warm to.
Jason
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Somebody better tell Harley because they're using it for King of the Baggers racing series. And as far as efficient combustion take a look at a engine tear down after just 500 miles of this engine, they're on YouTube. Every engine Harley ever made is an "evolution" of the previous engine so I don't see the point.
Not technically true. They were commissioned during WW2 to design and make an engine that could hang with the Germans and basically copied the design from BMW. They called it the XA. It was a flat twin and shaft driven, and ran about a hundred degrees cooler than the V due to the fins being out in the air. But God forbid Harley stick with an efficient and long lasting design, so they discontinued them after the Army leaned more into the Jeep, and only a thousand of them were made.
Jason
Then that was an evolution of the BMW engine. My point is that any engine a manufacturer makes is usually an improvement, from wherever they get the technology, or an evolution, in the raw sense of the word.
they sella kit to lower the fairing on the road glide and it makes a big difference.
But again it is another thing you have to buy and install yourself or pay Harley to install.
Nothing less that Hundred Dollars hence HD
Because Harley has always used its" customers as their R&D Dept. like how big can we make an air cooled engine till it literally fries someone's balls off, then the lawsuit will settle and that'll be their power plateau. BTW, shortleg I sent you a PM a while ago, did you get it?
King of the Bagger racing is for production motorcycles with production motors. Very few modifications are allowed. The Milwaukee Eight motor is a 45 degree, air cooled, pushrod V twin motor with a flat plane crank. As I said previously it is based on the Knucklehead that was introduced in 1936, It wasn't a race motor in 1936 and is not a race motgor now. Harley has made much more technologically based motors that would have been far better race motors. The new Revolution Max engine is a 60 degree, water cooled, overhead cam, V-twin with a split plane crank and a 9500 rpm rev limit. If Harley wanted to build a race motor this is current technology.