HARLEY-DAVIDSON MILWAUKEE EIGHT
FIRST RIDE
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bad, and it never loses sight
of what its customers actually
want—which is big American V-
twins built for cruisin'. These are
the engines the company builds
and these are the bikes the com-
pany builds. Once the internet
haters out there get this thought
in their heads, they'll realize just
how big a deal this engine actu-
ally is.
H-D has a sound, a feel that
plenty of other companies have
tried to replicate and can't, and
keeping the masses happy, as
well as attracting new ones, has
become company policy number
one for the Milwaukee faithful.
The Milwaukee Eight engine,
gifted to the entire Touring lineup
of Harley-Davidsons, is thus the
culmination of years of research,
chatting to Harley and non-Har-
ley riders alike, finding out what
they want from a new Big Twin.
Basically, it boiled down to
four key points: keep the noise,
keep the feel, increase the
torque, reduce the heat. Riders
wanted a real Harley Big Twin.
That means the rumble—but not
too much rumble. Vibration was
a big issue with the new engine
designer Alex Bozmoski had to
deal with.
"Our core customers were
Washington
state certainly
laid on the
beauty for us.
