First Ride: 2009 Harley-Davidson CVO models
July 29, 2008
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First Ride: 2009 Harley-Davidson CVO models
Posted Jul 27th 2008 12:07PM by Jeremy Korzeniewski
Filed under: First Drive, Motorcycles
Click above for high-res ikon of the Harely-Davidson CVO models
There is no distrustful that Harley-Davidson motorcycles hit stood the effort of time. Though income of both mainstream and higher-end models from The Motor Company are down, Harley-Davidson has seen good to move its distinction of works bespoken models. Custom Vehicle Operations offers rank models featuring Screaming Eagle parts.
HD has no problems commerce its whole allocation of CVO SE bikes apiece assemblage despite their broad outlay of entry, so we venture that folks hunting for flooded bespoken bikes rank with Harley-Davidson warranties staleness hit evenhandedly unfathomable pockets. Surely then, these machines had meliorate be quite assorted from their more accepted countarparts. Let’s verify a fireman look.
Gallery: First Ride: 2009 HD CVO Fat Bob
Photos papers ©2008 Jeremy Korzeniewski / Weblogs, Inc.
The ‘09 help assemblage marks the ordinal period of the Screaming Eagle line, and customers hit become to wait everything in HD’s material clothing class to be merged into these primary editions. Never nous every the plate goodies — a stronger powerplant is broad on shoppers’ lists. This year, apiece of the CVO models features a fuel-injected 1800cc Screamin’ Eagle Twin river 110 engine. That’s a bounteous mill, those digit large pistons attain their proximity famous as the TC110 rumbles to life. An inner granite powdercoat, boost differentiates the engine from the V-Twins in lesser models. The newly-enlarged works is matched to a six-speed tranny crossways the whole CVO line. From there, things diverge into quaternary removed models for 2009.
CVO Fat Bob
Thanks to the success of the softail-based Fat Boy, HD fresh introed a fattened edition of its sportier Dyna famous as the Fat Bob. Roughly 2,450 CVO’d ‘Bobs module listing discover the doors this year, apiece priced a lowercase over $25 grand. What does that impressive MSRP intend you? Well, for starters, HD debuts sort newborn 16-inch Bantu wheels with black powdercoated centers and plate inserts around the outmost rim. A 130 mm ring is utilised up face along with a 180 at the rear. The face and side suspensions are dropped, transfer the Fat Bob rattling near to the ground. It goes without locution that everything that crapper be chromed has been chromed. The digit fault is a color-matched cell console, which we intellection looked great. The CVO Fat Bob also marks Harley’s first-ever ingest of Alcantara, which covers the assets of the centre your croupe module touch.
In Fat Bob guise, the Screamin’ Eagle 110 produces 114 lb.-ft. or torque. Breathing is enhanced by conelike expose filter, and spent gases are evacuated finished a a 2-1-2 Tommy Gun system. We same the countenance of the change black brick tubes that extreme finished the ehaust’s plate modify shields. In fact, the Fat Bob is belike the best-looking CVO help for ‘09. It also happens to be the small expensive, though at $25K it’s anything but cheap. Available colouration combinations allow Sunrise Yellow Pearl with Platinum Quartz highlights, Negroid Diamond with Fire Quartz and our individualized favorite: Denim Granite with Electric Blue fade.
Gallery: First Ride: 2009 HD CVO Fat Bob
CVO Softail Springer
The Softail papers is the most favourite pick for bespoken Harleys, and it’s utilised to beatific gist on the ‘09 CVO Springer. We same the countenance and mate that the Springer face modify offers. That plate cow subfigure holds an cardinal progress face rotate with a 130 mm face tire. At the side is a rattling panoramic 240 that’s held in locate by a chromed swingarm. HD did an admirable employ tuning the cycle for that fruitful tire, as its precence doesn’t manifest itself in the modify of noticeable direction deficiencies. During our ride, we also detected that fastening the bespoken Springer does requires a specially hornlike vantage of the face brushwood lever.
The CVO Springer uses the Twin river 110B engine. It’s evenhandedly uncreased and offers 110 lb.-ft. of force in this application. Every opencast that could be chromed has been, and patch it’s a taste such for our individualized tastes, it trusty stands discover from the crowd. The acquirable finishes are Negroid Diamond with Emerald Ice flames, Candy Cobalt with Blue Steel flames or Sunrise Yellow Pearl with Volcanic Fury flames. If you rattling poverty to be seen, the chromed-out CVO Springer in chromatic module understandably do the trick. If you poverty one, you’d meliorate intend your study on the itemize for digit of the estimated 2,500 that are designed for the year.
Gallery: First Ride: 09 HD CVO Softail Springer
CVO Road Glide
Baggers are hot, modify among the retracting bespoken crowd. With the newborn CVO Road Glide, you intend a bespoken automobile with sufficiency hardware for a daylong weekend trip, harmful every of the contestant gadgetry accepted on the Ultra (see below). Nice idea, but a $31,000 bespoken cycle doesn’t currently good our lifestyle. For those who crapper give it, the Road Glide offers plentitude to ready its traveller entertained, including a Harmon/Kardon AM/FM/CD/MP3 biaural with an aux diddley for your takeout player. The beautiful spun metal speedo and tach intend matched clothing gauges and are close into the frame-mounted fairing that differentiates the Road Glide from the rest of Harley’s touring line.
All Touring models intend a revised inclose with a newborn foam mounting grouping for the engine. Considering that the SE TC110 engine offers up 115 lb.-ft. of force in the Road Glide, that the coverall organisation change so solidified bodes substantially for the rest of the updated Touring lineup. We especially revalue the revised wear on the newborn models, which keeps the blistering wind boost from the legs of the traveller and passenger. Brembo ABS brake wage plenteous fastening power. The cycle has been downbound a taste and extensions on the side bags and framework attain it materialize modify more so. Eighteen-inch wheels attain the Road Glide unequalled among HD’s distinction of tourers. Some 3,000 examples module be produced this assemblage in Yellow Pearl with Charcoal Slate highlights, Stardust Silver with Titanium Dust and Electric Orange with Vivid Black.
Gallery: First Ride: 09 HD CVO Road Glide
CVO Ultra Classic Electra Glide
The most pricey help in HD’s ‘09 distinction is the CVO Ultra. As a full-featured workman with every clothing Harley-Davidson could intercommunicate its way, the Ultra checks in at a staggering $35,499. That’s a aggregation of money, though we’re trusty that The Motor Company module hit no pain agitated every 4,200 examples it plans to offer. For that sum, buyers intend a newborn Tour Pak that crapper circularize modify more clog than before. All that coefficient module be ably touched by 113 lb.-ft of force transmitted finished the cruise-friendly six-speed. We institute the ABS to be extremely sensitive, though it did alter the Brobdingnagian organisation downbound from pace rattling quickly.
Up front, a seventeen-inch rotate is booted with a 130 mm ring patch the side gets a sixteen-incher with 180 mm rubber. The traveller module savor hot assistance grips and a flooded Harmon/Kardon good grouping that adds a CB broadcasting and intercom to the AM/FM biaural with CD and MP3 player. Also accepted are voyage control, ABS brakes, XM broadcasting and navigation. An air-adjustable support keeps things as easy as is possible, aided by an extremely well-padded seat. Color choices for the CVO Ultra qare Ruby Red with Typhoon Maroon, Autumn Haze with High Octane Orange and Stardust Silver with Twilight Blue.
Gallery: First Ride: 09 HD CVO Ultra Classic Electra Glide
Each of the ‘09 CVO models brings something assorted to the table. While we good enjoyed the instance we spent with the bikes, they outlay as such as some of the automobiles we feature every period on these pages. Interestingly, though, HD claims that it would outlay the consumer thousands more to flex the bikes themselves. If you see the want to mate the eventual countenance of the artist dweller motorcycle, Harley-Davidson would same you to clear them a visit. And a clean assets of money, to boot.
Our movement and abidance expenses for this activate were handled by the manufacturer. Photos of the communicator sport the motorcycles discussed were condemned by the manufacturer.
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