Harley-Davidson Road Glide Limited 2022 — Specifications

How can you justify a price approaching €33,000 for a motorcycle whose technical specifications, on paper, seem from another era? That’s the question that immediately comes to mind when you look at this Harley-Davidson Road Glide Limited 2022. With its 87 horsepower drawn from a 1868 cm3 V2, it is outpaced by any Japanese or European touring bike. But Harley-Davidson doesn’t sell numbers; it sells mythology. And here, it’s the mythology of absolute travel, of endless highways swallowed in a rolling two-wheeled armchair. The Milwaukee-Eight 114 engine, for its part, doesn’t play in the high-revving court. Its raison d'être is a monstrous torque of 165 Nm, available from 3000 rpm. A wave of fat, sonorous thrust that propels its 407 kg with sovereign nonchalance. You won’t accelerate, you will be *propelled*.

This Harley-Davidson Road Glide Limited is distinguished by its fixed shark nose, an aerodynamic signature that divides but offers straight-line stability that models with a tilting head can envy. Comfort is an empire: low seat at 69 cm, adjustable suspensions, heated grips as standard and an integrated protection bubble in the fairing. With its combined 132 liters of storage, this machine is designed to leave for a month without asking questions. The announced consumption of 5.5 L/100 km and the 22.7-liter tank promise stages of nearly 400 km, an autonomy worthy of a true grand touring.

But the real revolution, for a Harley, is hidden under the electronic hood. The famous RDRS (Reflex Defensive Rider Systems) now equip this Road Glide Limited. You’ll find traction control, cornering ABS, linked braking, and even a hill hold control. Active technologies that suddenly bring the proposition closer to what BMW or KTM have been doing for years. The Boom! Box GTS multimedia system, with its 6.5-inch touchscreen and H-D connectivity, transforms the cockpit into a high-tech command post. It’s a giant leap, even if some purists will see it as superfluous complication.

So, who is it for? Certainly not for the track rider seeking raw sensations, nor for the urban dweller looking to weave through traffic. The Harley-Davidson Road Glide Limited: 407 kg this motorcycle will offer you an ideal experience, especially on your longest journeys. It is aimed at the confirmed globetrotter, the one for whom travel is a comfortable and powerful ritual, a sensory experience made of muffled rumbles and distant horizons. Faced with a Honda Gold Wing, smoother and more technological, or a BMW K 1600, faster and more nervous, the Harley stands on its territory: the aura, the style, and that unique feeling of piloting an institution. Its price is a wall, its weight an obviousness, but for its audience, it remains without limits.