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for six years it was one of the best kept secrets in motorcycling a Harley that was unlike anything Harley had ever built when it was finally unveiled in the summer of 2001 the new bike came with a long list of Firsts Harley's first liquid-cooled engines its first exposed steel and aluminum body the first Harley to do one 15 horsepower Straight Out of the Box they called it the V-Rod it all started with the idea of doing something that had never been done before for almost a hundred years Harley-Davidson had put out some of the most classic motorcycles built in many ways they became a symbol of the American Spirit itself 90s Harleys were so popular that you needed to be on a waiting list just to buy one despite this success Harley was losing ground to a new generation of writers more interested in speed that is Style at a meeting of her is product development committee the idea began to take shape was it possible to combine The Best of Both Worlds the speed and power of a Performance Bike wrapped up in a style that was unmistakably Harley the top secret check with code and p 4 we're really interested in and reaching out to pay Britain even broader base of customers everybody had their own concept and what this thing is going to be but we knew what the essence of the motorcycles going to meet me or Bare Bones powerful custom mean to get the performance we want it and acceleration we wanted and all the things we wanted out of this motorcycle we realize we had to do something new to find something new they turn to Harley Superbike racing team which it spent years building in perfecting its own radical Racing Engine the vr1000 until know every stock engine Harley has ever put on a bike have been are cool the racing teams vr1000 was liquid-cooled which meant I could rev higher and go faster and that was just the beginning you have dual overhead cam if it had four valves per cylinder it was a dramatic departure from our heritage and all the sudden he was getting his new territory in the challenge were facing is you know how do we keep the allegiance of our tried-and-true customer Harley Owners for all their colorful lifestyles are quite possibly the most loyal customers of any product anywhere risk in this project beginning was how could we make a bike that would I perform differently and be a very different type of motorcycles but one that still says I'm a Harley when you saw it going down the street I have the screen Harley-Davidson when you've heard it had to see Harley-Davidson pull this off the P4 project was turned over to Harley styling Department led by the legendary Willie G Davidson in order to keep this bike a Harley that it had to have the whooping she touch that's something magic that we have that nobody else had access to Cornerstone of the of this we don't often have the opportunity of concept and then entire motorcycle but this time we can relieve get into the details Willie G left Milwaukee in the late 1950s go to design school in California in 1963 The Prodigal Son returned to become Harley's first VP of styling where you proceeded to light a fire under the idea of what a Harley was supposed to look like in the 60s many Harley Owners were turning their bikes in the customized works of our being offended that the company's bikes were being chopped apart Willie G was inspired he went back to Milwaukee to create the Super Glide the low rider in a whole new style of bikes that came to be called Factory Customs it was a move that helped launch Harley-Davidson from the brink of bankruptcy to unprecedented success and for the next quarter-century he personally oversaw the design of every new model Harley turned out that gives it a forward motion and I really borrow from drugs visually which I think of her exciting in the summer of 1995 Willie G and his team of stylistic on Harley's greatest challenge ever designing a brand new motorcycle from the ground up is going to give the bike a side profile that will be very recognizable if we don't get some sense of where the body wants to be so then we can do the frame I want this vehicle to have that type of presents where you walk up to it and say that that's a new Harley-Davidson wow send speed with a key design element the team found inspiration in another kind of rating by dragsters Louie Nets have been Willy second-in-command since the late 70 drag racing motorcycles have a certain feel to them that's very low and long aggressive minimal so then that starts to the create a sense of direction when you consider the monorail we're looking at the side profile and the impact right to transform the ideas and sketches into three-dimensional computer-aided designs and there's some interesting things going on from the side the youngest member of the team Frank Savage and join The Styling department just a few months earlier he would cut his teeth on a project that every young designer in America could only wish for the Chalet tomorrow the rank of the vehicle looks fast that's great about that was just so exciting that I can be at the ground level this thing and watch it rise just a dream come true and then you can you can try lifetime to to get into a project like this and a 1/2 early on that came up with their own nickname for the P4 Digger we like the name Digger has a right to the right song I think it fits the bike the process of Designing a motorcycle is it balance of Art and Science at Harley's newly-opened Product Development Center another team was being assembled a select group of Engineers it would be their job to turn stylings designs into a working motorcycle the job of keeping the project on time and on budget was given to Harley's chief engineer of motorcycles at Keller if I was excited is this was a chance to do something really new and meaningful for Harley-Davidson and I was really looking forward to a chance to make some history with this project Jeff Romenesko would spent the last six years engineering Harley touring bikes was put in charge of team that would build the P4 is chassis and it's incredible to keep the project secret even from their families at this point no one could begin to Fathom the energy or the man hours it would take over the next six years to create this new Harley putting vr1000 race engine into a street chassis meant that it was going to have to be quite a different from a traditional Harley one of the first challenges with understanding what has to be involved to make a Harley-Davidson Harley-Davidson how far can we take this clean sheet approach the first step was to put a vr1000 racing engine into the frame of a traditional Harley the filing Department came and took a look at it and then after about 5 minutes and we have spent weeks building it 5 minutes said this is like a Softail with a liquid-cooled engine in it that's not what we want start over it really told us was very strongly what not to do in the traditional look of Harley was not intended for that engine that's kind of where we started to talk about while you know we need to do something completely different side it was also a practical problem the traditional Harley frame wasn't sturdy enough to handle the considerably more powerful engine it's going to be fast and Powerful in the new the frame had to be very strong and very stable for that to work 2nd generation Harley engineer Rob Dennard who it started with the company as a summer in turn 12 years earlier today Harley we wanted to frame to be simple director we wanted the frame to enhance the engine Willie G once said to me I want something that I could hang up on the wall that was a real challenge for us because frame is there something that you attach things to that provide structure that connects the front wheel to the rear wheel and we had to do all those things and make it look good at the same time after weeks of CAD drawings on a solution an elegantly curved double rail in a traditional Harley a single frame rail is hidden beneath the gas tank to accommodate the additional horsepower the P4 would have two rails that would run along the outside of the body has the bonus Willie G and The Styling team love the idea we decided we would just take advantage of that and try to make the frame a part of the silent the only question was could it be built and the really are no straight or curved sections that are Define typical lines and arcs adding a curve or a shape to it complicates the next starter frames the problem was that Steel 2 can only be been so far complex curves require welding separate pieces together which makes for a weaker frame we're outside the tomb bending manual at that point in time the engineer struggle to find a way to avoid bending the frame tube to their breaking point they also began to ask him more basic question how well would their emerging design work on a real-life bike after the Italian concept kind of got jailed we knew what we wanted to do with the frame we said you know we need to take basic concept and put it in in to steal and actually run the motorcycle accrued version of the frame with welded together in Harley's machine shop and married up with a VR 1000 engine become the new bikes first working prototype I think we really need to Fasteners there I don't want to be worried about a pivoting on there I suppose you had to chat anyway to get the dragster look just darling was asking for it wanted to see how far they could push out the front end on a motorcycle the more ripped out the front end is the harder it is to handle to get the best of both worlds they offset the go between the steering head and the front fork they gave us the long low raked out front end look of the dragster custom motorcycle and still gave us the handling characteristics we need to be able to live with it everyday I brought them face-to-face with other issues to make room for the engines to large throttle valves the fuel tank had to move the challenge for engineering was if the fuel tank couldn't go where it usually went then where do you put it competitive analysis on other bikes in brainstorming session we realize that we can put the fuel under the seat this created a new problem with a big engine and a low frame there wasn't much room left for a gas tank we had potentially a dragster oil tank that we had purchased just out of a catalog in her one gallon of fuel another issue with a piece of gear no Harley had ever had to contend with before a radiator back in the saddle in the front in any way we could do Khmer to it it's going to be interesting to see what we actually end up with first incarnation of Harley's groundbreaking motorcycle is ready for its maiden voyage It Happened One quiet weekday afternoon way out in the country at Jeff romanescos house why aren't there many homes and I knew nobody would be home at the time and cooked up some brats and rode a motorcycle in the afternoon wonder if I'm machine but you could tell the potential the Prototype had one undeniable quality what are the best car in trouble Russia red car how long is left before we knew that this is going to be something special Chipotle's new top secret High Performance Motorcycle codename T4 this would prove to be easier said than done Jeff Coughlin was part of the engineering team signed the daunting task of pulling it off the race engine is nearly wide open throttle all the time you're pushing the limits so you have very light components your only need it to last 400 miles to get you through that weekend race engines also required to meet you at emissions and noise standards and they're expensive engine can cost anywhere from $40,000 to $100,000 to help turn the vr1000 into an engine that lasted longer than a weekend and well it street legal speed it was considerably less expensive Harley turn to one of the world's great engine makers Porsche we gained the additional expertise of the to supplement our own so they're Morris people looking at how to make the best product possible horses Engineering Services facility in White Sox Germany is renowned for its performance engine designs in late 1990 16 from Harley took up residence there to begin collaborating on the P4 meanwhile back in Milwaukee Willie G and his team of stylus began working on what the new engine should look like Charlie imagery has always been a very strong beat win there's never any question that from this company in the engines going to be a styled Masterpiece jewelry from a visual snow appointments shape I think that works quite well and also it's it's it's very obviously a V-Twin they began by making a clay model of what they wanted the new engine to look like one truly stylistic touch that they added where are fins playing with we want to bring them all the way down we try to do is look at the drag bike signals big jugs theater one of their biggest issues was where to put the water hose the difficult issue of this one was how we going to get the water out of there the cleanest technical solution was taking that water straight toward towards the radiator and that would mean crossing over a cylinder at the base and that was not a good visual it did really was not at this coming right in front of a part of the engine that we spend time making love their solution was to reroute the hose taking it up and over the top of the engine it just seemed a crime to not split that thing in a symmetrical way and I think we made JB engineering couple fits on that one of the things I like about that is it's not the destination it's the journey tank Savage build a full-scale model using a fiberglass a couple of tires and a whole lot of modeling clay at what you would trade things in Clay is analogous to the sketching on paper the way I look at it and throw down clay what does wind speed like it and change it that quick you know we can have critiques and change things in our people's clay it can just happen like that okay next concept 3D model shut a glaring light on one of the bikes toughest challenges Josh pipes the job assigned to engineer Mike next door that we came up with there are tighter than we've ever done before and you got some very minimal straight so is there two version of your eye noise regulations it would have to be large enough to hold 12 liters of are the biggest exhaust ever on a Harley in engineering's initial blueprints it look both Mammoth and ugly Manos Mufflers location Sally wasn't happy with the fact that we had to pack is 12 liters for one thing but will soon when they got over that they knew that with that size and had to be the best-looking sexiest exhaust system that we had ever put on a bike Alex Tyler is going to have the last say no matter what we do really play around with quick shapes and gestures and and from there we got the schedule at school so I go to the clay I'll start looking at that in 3D vs the two-dimensional thing and realizing okay these things are pretty big guys have it so the pipes are coming around and then just we've got nothing there you're we looked at that design and immediately would strike fear in the heart of any engineer because looking at the clay model it was beautiful it just didn't look for Newsome is one engineer put it it was trying to fit 10 lbs in a 5lb bag just remember that exhaust is such a big Visual and it really but the biggest challenge that faced styling and Engineering was just beginning the radiator we've never had a big piece of Real Estate hey on our down tubes we didn't want to just hang a radiator in the fall motorcycle cuz everybody else does that they had to come up with a way to package the radiator so that it got enough air to cool the engine and also looked great the task is coming up with the initial design was turned over to engineer Joe Shaffer and CAD designer John Myers it had to be styled into a Harley-Davidson which meant that it had to be integrated into the vehicle being able to do that and still having a cooling system that was healed fully functional had severe flowing and cool the engine were quite a challenge to get past I don't think we're going to get the airflow we need through the car and have to get outside further just make a logo and now the center we might as well not even have open in my mind go freaking Stones going to have heartburn on that cuz I'm already an inch wider than they want it real early on we thought maybe the best way to make it as inconspicuous as possible I was to have it look like a piece of the body work on the motorcycle but it's like there's not a radiator there literally hide the cooling system the first one we did was Tiny we love that a prototype radiator was tested in a wind tunnel to see if it got enough airflow to cool the engine it was a validation of the fact that we just didn't have enough airflow to cool part of the problem with the front tire the front tire actually acts as an air dam so as the motorcycle is moving all the hair that has the front of the front tire kind of get shot around the outside the engineers suggested making the radiator bigger and adding Scoops to pull in air from either side of the front wheel and then there's like big radiators out in the open and with lots of airflow to him like this and real gym at ripping and it looks like we did when we started compromising off Barkley back where can we trim it I even with this but I'm coming back saying no Saturday wire got to be bigger I don't care if it looks the way it does this make it bigger and we try everything we can come in here and Vice President should come in The Styling department and look at it and just say no okay there are times when we would challenge down that there is just no changing the laws of physics and there were times that they had to remain adamant because there was no changing the laws of Willie 2 years into the project the designers and engineers and Harley top-secret new motorcycle had succeeded in creating the overall look of the bike battle now was in the details engineer Mike next door took on the challenge of more than tripling the size of the prototypes 1 gallon gas tank you can create a bike that looks awesome but if you're only going to be how to run 15 miles on a tank nobody's going to buy it are you still know on the shielding side are you still thinking of having something on the the tank itself they wanted at least three and a half gallons but the tight space left no room for a traditional steel tank of that size Nick Stark suggested they try plastic plastic fuel tank and Harley don't typically go together but plastic headed to advantages heat resistant be nearly seamless it was more durable and because it could be molded into every available nook and cranny it could hold almost four gallons of gas while The Styling team was kicking around another idea that I had never tried before aluminum they recommended that we do the the sheet metal fenders and air box cover out of wrought aluminum DeVos sections I really like the sight elevation because it's it it's it's low and dimension this way and it has a lot of length we wanted to finish that would enhance tape that they performance look when you think of a woman on his think of Ferraris you think of racing Vehicles it's also a material that I think when combined with chrome has this beauty and simplicity aluminum is a wonderful material it's lightweight it's it's corrosive resistant and so forth but it's very difficult to form into compound shapes frequently when you go down the path like that it is going to be difficult the reward it's going to be that much greater part of the appeal of a Harley has always been the ability to customize it to make it uniquely your own and the V-Rod with no exception early on in its development another group of Harley designers focus on creating parts and accessories that would fit the bikes highly Sia look without appearing to be an afterthought in the can solve the windshield they really want it appear that it's just floating in space that it's just there cuz she look at it from a profile view all you see is swimming age and you can barely tell its on the vehicle a bigger challenge was designing a saddlebag that didn't compromise to buy Klean strip down look I want to design challenges for the bags was there's no overhang for when to open properly are the engineer who came up with this four-bar linkage hinge when the saddle bag if you're looking at it from the side that actually lift lid off first and then pivots it forward the biggest hold up now was unfortunately the most critical part of all the heart of any Harley the engine when the first prototype finally arrived it was put in the latest mock-up of the bike so it could be road tested for durability the very first running prototype engine but we saw we're somewhat disappointing designing a motorcycle is much. designing a car for example the acceleration rates with this motorcycle has are much higher despite these setbacks Harley remain confident in the joint team's ability to tackle a Roblox head so there was a strong effort from both companies to reinforce the team we got a lot of forces best experts assigned to the project and we got a lot of involvement from Harley-Davidson and together we completely redesigned the engine from that and if you take two steps forward now within one back and sometimes to back and your heart starts with her a little bit all the time and how much more money is this going to take how much more time is this going to take the people was taking far longer than anyone had expected for every setback in the success for one the engineering team found a way to make a frame that had both the elegant curve styling wanted and the durability that the new engine demanded we've eliminated the wailmer and the tool marks cabin and things like that because it is now one piece we're actually making some pretty good progress I've been doing some research around different ways to fabricate materials and I came across a fire for me hydroforming is a process that uses water pressure to bend and shape sections of pipe from the inside what it does is a little expensive material like a balloon to form out and fill out the cavity to represent the shape that allowed them to reduce the number of Wells from 17 to see and it really gave styling that tool that they could hang on the wall unequally and genius illusion was finally found for making a big exhaust look small with two Mufflers in the stylized shape styling head ask for there is no way that we were going to be able to form essentially in a spent shape it was physically impossible so we came up with the idea of 1/3 volume the two pipes coming out from the engine feed into single chamber the so-called third volume creating a cleverly concealed extra space this third volume served as the chamber where we float 2 into 1 into 2 calling blocked the Romaine was getting the notorious radiator cover nickname Gumby's casket to both look good and to work without good air circulation the engine would overheat in Wind Tunnel test they found they could get air flowing to radiator they just couldn't keep it once we have these big are school so we can get them to grab their but they are would go in one side and out the other and a breakthrough finally came using an air scoop made out of clay material of Federal Express box professors at the wind tunnel introduced us to the idea of putting some Vortex generators into the back side of the cover of Vortex generator is a fancy name for a fin that stirs up the are cardboard and tape digital veins we did that created a turbulence in there that allows more air to flow through the system and really improve the performance a Porsche in German the engine team was finally on a roll a new prototype delivered in early 1998 was put into the latest mock up with the bike the engineers decided to put it to the ultimate Challenge Willie G's first ride signature of whether or not this is a Harley Davidson is Willie Davidson when is first ride as I recall he was one of only two or three president that day that were able to ride the bike because quite frankly really broke the bike I laughed now it maybe wasn't so funny that day but there was a prototype and Harrison parts that were handmade and I managed to lock it in 4th gear and head had to bring it in but I got to ride it not a big smile from ear-to-ear even though he had broken the thing when he Glam that this is a an expletive Harley-Davidson we knew that we were onto something intake we don't want to challenge now was making an engine that would hold up for the long run as a benchmark to shoot for the joint engineering teams tested the infamous Dusseldorf test the test simulated a grueling trip from Porsches facility NY stock to Dusseldorf along Germany's nouturios high-speed Autobahn and would get all elements out City speeds of climbing Hills of going to Corners good straight Audubon stretches of unlimited speed the folklore is if you can survive that test you can survive any check because it was Impractical to monitor the test on the actual roads it was run on an engine simulator called a dynamometer to pass the engines had to endure an obstacle course of wide open throttle in mountain climbing toward the goal was 500 hours nearly Twenty One days not it probably got to about 50 hours before we started seeing some issues because it wasn't the car engine some suggested that a lower number might be more realistic Target that maybe this was too aggressive and you could say Okay $400 is fine you know we made it that far but we did not we said $500 for well over a year when Engine after another was pushed to the breaking point The Joint engineering team learn from each setback made improvements then try it again their tenacity paid off in March 2018 and passed the 400 our point and was still running people were calling on 20 minute intervals in are we there yet are we there yet we're getting very close we're getting very closer all got have our fingers crossed the engine that got off to such a difficult start with everyone's wildest expectations cranking up one 15 horsepower and revving it over 9000 RPMs with a top speed of over 140 miles per hour it will be Harley's fastest most powerful engine ever it was so Innovative they decided to call it the revolution but there was still one small hurdle to clear parades this is also Harley-Davidson and if it's a Harley it's got to withstand parade Duty from that remained at that point was keeping the vehicle cool and idling conditions for a large cooling fan so Engineers tried to strategically placed small fans to put them to the they headed to the hottest spot they could find at the Arizona Proving Ground daytime temperatures can easily hit 120 degrees to test device ability to stay cool at idle their first taken on a 50 minute warm up ride on the 5 Mile track once they're warmed up the rolled into something called a he shed nothing more than four walls in an open rough and it's closed cuz the hot sun coming down on the vehicle and the vehicle have to be able to idle for a. Of time without either shutting down or overheating when the time is up the bikes are taken out in written for another hour in the Blazing heat then put back in the shed disco's on all day to everyone's relief the bikes ran for 8 hours without overheating once the revolution engine had passed after nearly four years of design and Engineering prototypes of Harley's top secret Performance Bike had to face their toughest challenge yet months of re 5 durability test the guard against unauthorized publicity on the work-in-progress bike the distinctive aluminum bodies were spray painted flat black even if someone did photo it was going to be difficult for them to really make out the shapes the bikes were written as much 80000 mi in a variety of conditions to test which parts held up and which parts didn't after each 8-hour shift the Riders got to give their opinions about what they like and what they didn't will test for engine noise engine vibration suspension sitting position headlight mirror positioning brakes acceleration you name it we run it through his paces in addition to play track the flights were also run several thousand miles on the cooling pump course the point of us running that is to try to put as much damage into that vehicle in the shortest amount of time as possible and it shakes us the bike baby fine failures out that he would find anywhere else to test for road conditions are harder to find in real life another group of prototype bikes were sent to Harley test labs in Milwaukee the Reverb chamber is a copper line room used to bombard the bike with a barrage of radio waves but that stimulates environment you might see outside CB radios AM FM radio cellular phones anything that uses radio waves the idea is to test for every kind of electronic antenna shootout way the bounce off the copper walls a rotating fan stirs the radiation into a full-scale bombardment or like a big microwave oven we often the joke that we could pop more popcorn here than anyone else if we wanted to each bike then spend a day in the hog wash for 24 hours straight 30 high-pressure Jets of water black the bike from every direction just to see if anything leak or shorted out or intrusion into the vehicle and speedometers in the tour pack saddle bag and if I say we wouldn't want the water to be after the rinse cycle the first thing they checked was would it run next. bike parts were pounded twisted and shaking and Harley structures lab for weeks on end purpose of the structures lab is to make sure that the components that go on a motorcycle or not going to fail in service he want to figure out what it takes to actually break it and then you also want to figure out how long it'll live with a normal input so you're looking for the weak link the full vehicle simulator put the bike on a bone-jarring  ride over soon weighted road course that includes endless bumps potholes and torn up pavement it goes on Non-Stop for 5 days parts were also tested for how well they held up against the elements is very much metallic we had to figure out how to make it stay that way for as long as somebody owned a motorcycle test chamber subjected parts to endless pea soup fog in saltwater are several lucky Pirates got to spend a few years catching Rays up on the roof of one of Harley's plants to see how they handled blistering sun and did rain but the real test of a Harley is what it sounds like we go to a lot of trouble to protect the sound of the motorcycle because Carly has a legendary song people talk about the sound of our bikes the bike sound was fine tune in Harley's anechoic chamber anechoic stands for a room without echoes in the room we have a robotic system that takes an array of microphones around the bike when we're trying to understand where a noise is coming from a little whistle or a little ping we can create this holiday field around the bike and zoom in right to where the noise is coming from right away you can start some zoning in on things that just don't sound Harley covers that talk a little more than they should gears that me whine little more than they should those are the first things we addressed they also had to make sure the bike could pass new increasingly tough noise regulations or throughout the planet they have different regulations that call for an accelerated test the track outside is a regulatory test track and we find the loudest sound pressure level NASA number that's reported it's really for me the comfort of the people around you isn't Disturbed is the bike near completion Willie G's son build Davidson and other members of Harleys marketing department struggled with one of the biggest challenges of all what call it we had literally hundreds of names it actually took us over a year phone bill evrc I don't think we like that one out the minute you find one you like you find out that is trademarked in Japan we had one then we like them found out of his name the toilet bowl cleaner in Europe so it's okay that one can't work element was having a name that when you saw this name you could see this bike so the two were locked together have to come up with a lot of names and coiling it down the one that kind of kept coming up with that people really started to gravitate toward was V-Rod V for the V-twin engine VR for the VR 1000 Rod Force dragster hot rod with everything finally in place it was time to gear up the assembly line both the engine in the bike itself would be put together at Harley's newest plant in Kansas City at the head of the new beer at assembly line will be the world's first fully automated pipe cutting robot using cameras for eyes they could recognize whatever length pipe it was given cut it with a Precision lathe they do its own quality check of the end result the successful partnership with Porsche continued the revolution engine would be built as a joint venture in the same plant as the rest of the bike do the V-Rod going to full production until after the dealer show the assembly line had to be put through its paces setting up for mass production and adapting to an assembly line created new challenges for Harley because of the lean low design of the bike difficult to fit the engine into the frame the solution to removable rails they would also make it easier to service the bike if you can is a simple idea now almost six years later after hundreds of unexpected hurdles and hard-won breakthroughs after thousands of hours at both disappointment and success after millions of dollars invested in a melding of Art and Science the V-Rod was fine near reality the official launch of the V-Rod was scheduled for the annual Harley-Davidson dealer meeting held this year at the San Jose Convention Center for the team of Engineers and designers this was it they had set out to build a bike that was unlike anything Harley has ever made but that was also on mistake play a Harley to respect the Great American tradition but also to grow and extend that tradition into the future it's been an emotional Journey that I will don't forget the fact that we have been able to execute a product that is this much different than everything else we've done is again a testimony to this organization I will always be proud of that this year I got there that I had something to do with every single part and I don't know how I'm going to react when you actually get on the bike and and ride it makes you so proud to know that this is something that we created from scratch hunting without us this product would not be here when you work together this long and this hard with this much passion you never forget it and we're taking it for granted to scare someone just hungry and I see other people's responses to his is going to be fun. When they take that cover off at the dealer show I guarantee you that I'll have to turn in play fantastic to be standing here knowing that a new Harley classic is just about to be sprung on the world and we did but half of professional career hardly working on this and we're finally going to get to talk about it we're going to shock the world ladies and Gentlemen let's give a rousing welcome to Willie G and Bill Davidson and the newest member of our the Harley-Davidson V-Rod I think I think it's awesome that is definitely a Harley and I just can't believe her

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