2023 Harley-Davidson CVO Highway Glide First Look [All-New]

The gorgeous all-new 2023 Harley-Davidson CVO Highway Glide is being teased by The Motor Firm. Whereas we don’t have specs or many particulars, there’s nonetheless loads to have a look at and speak about. We’ll additionally hear from Harley-Davidson executives about this revolutionary new Customized Car Operations bike, launched collectively with the 2023 CVO Avenue Glide.

The 2023 CVO Highway Glide will get a very reworked fairing. Whereas nonetheless a frame-mounted shark-nosed design, it seems to be way more aerodynamic, giving the brand new Highway Glide a purposeful countenance. The now-single headlight is an impressively vast LED design with built-in flip indicators and air-directing louvers on the facet. The windscreen is swept again and proper above the Splitstream vent.

“These all-new and unquestionably Harley-Davidson designs deliver a cohesive and dynamic stream from the entrance fenders to the saddlebags,” Harley-Davidson Vice President of Design and Artistic Director Brad Richards says. “Attaining a higher diploma of visible change than any era prior, the design of those CVO Avenue Glide and CVO Highway Glide fashions are revolutionary takes on the historic artwork of evolution. Like all Harley-Davidson bikes, these new fashions are supposed to instill a way of timeless want.”

The entrance finish is all-new. Check out the wire-spoked wheel that retains tubeless standing. The discs get radially mounted Brembo calipers that wouldn’t look misplaced on a superbike. The inverted fork can be new, including extra efficiency credibility to the design.

Transferring onto the motor shouldn’t be disappointing. The 2023 Harley-Davidson CVO Highway Glide is powered by a brand new Milwaukee-Eight VVT 121. It ought to be a ripper with prodigious displacement and variable valve timing for extra energy throughout the rev vary. Cooling is offered by a radiator between the body downtubes. We don’t know if that is an oil cooler or if the motor is a Twin-Cooled configuration.

Should you prefer to play tunes whilst you journey, the 2023 CVO Highway Glide has an all-new infotainment system driving audio system mounted within the lids of the facet instances. There might be two paint/end choices, although we’re solely seeing one presently. You’ll be able to’t miss the 121 branding on the brand new air filter cowl.

“With the introduction of the all-new CVO Avenue Glide and CVO Highway Glide, we’ve utterly reimagined two of Harley-Davidson’s most iconic bikes and redefined the boundaries of CVO within the course of,” Harley-Davidson Chairman, President and CEO Jochen Zeitz proclaimed. “By rethinking these two fashions from the bottom up, we’re ushering in a brand new period of innovation, design, engineering, and know-how, whereas increasing the definition of Harley-Davidson CVO and taking the Grand American Touring expertise to a different degree.”

Extra particulars might be launched on June 7, so be affected person about costs and specs for the 2023 Harley-Davidson CVO Highway Glide.