With the introduction of its Custom Vehicle Operation (CVO) in 1999, Harley-Davidson stood the custom bike industry on its ear. Well, not really, but it sounds good. The Company did, however, introduce a whole series of mostly performance-related custom items for the Harley enthusiast under the Screamin’ Eagle label. What better way to demonstrate how good your products are than by using them on your own motorcycles, right? The company soon started to turn several of its stock bikes into custom bikes, including its famous Dyna line. With the FXDSE, Harley-Davidson turned its workhorse into a race horse that seems to chomp at the bit pretty much from the second you push the start button. It even roars differently than its much tamer cousin, thanks mostly to the straight-cut pipes, but also because you’ve got a 100-inch motor purring belligerently underneath you.
Harley likes a small number when it comes to stroke and rightly so: less piston travel equals more torque. With its 4-inch bore and 4.38-inch stroke the CVO Dyna puts a nice 105 foot-pounds at your fingertips, once you’re up to about 3,000 rpm. If you’ve been- putting around an old 80 incher for a while and you figure this is the way to upgrade your riding experience, you might want to take it easy at first: gently slip the Dyna into first gear, ease off the clutch while slowly turning, the throttle. This baby wants to run and if you don’t hold on to the reigns tightly, she’ll buck you right off at the curb, although she does quite well in traffic, the CVO Dyna is sheer ecstasy on the open highway. It’s just hard to tell who’s hankering for speed more, you or the bike, but you will unleash the power at some point. Just make sure you’re nowhere near a speed trap, as you’ll be doing 90 to 100 in no time flat.
The 3000 rpm range for maximum torque is only the beginning of a broad power band that doesn’t really let up until the rev limiter hauls you back to reality around 7,000 rpm or so. Once you get off the straight open highway, you might want to try some curvy canyon roads for a while. Here too, the CVO Dyna doesn’t disappoint. With its relatively narrow 170 rear tire on a 17-inch wheel, it doesn’t force you to push your weight around like you might have to with a wider tire. You lean it into a curve and it gives like a supple, passionate woman in your embrace. Go ahead, take that curve up ahead. Shift down into third, lean into her and twist the throttle coming out, quickly shifting back up into fourth, fifth, or even sixth if you need to. The CVO Dyna knows how to please, much like all of Harley’s CVO bikes do. Aside from the two-tone paint scheme you see here, it also comes in silver-rush and midnight black, as well as twilight blue and granite with ice blue pear. Heck, even the colors sound seductive. For more info on this CVO & other CVO or stock Harley-Davidson motorcycle, visit them online at http://www.harely-davidson.com
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