Which HARLEY DAVIDSON has the BEST power to weight? 

Appreciate that. All I see on the Facebook groups are dyno sheets which means nothing if your bike is hundreds of pounds heavier than the one you're racing! Also another conversation that needs to be had is rider skill but I don't know if they are ready for that one. haha

Someone liked my reply recently so I re read it. Since my original reply I purchased a Dual Sport bike. A KTM 690, a big single cylinder thumper. Similar in purpose to the Pan Am adventure bike. Only smaller lighter more dirt oriented. Tuned it makes about 80 HP as it made 68 WHP. At 340 pounds this is .235 hp per pound. Fast but still not the hp per pound as the PA. Also I plan to rebuild my softail this winter to 180 WHP about 212 at the crank. Due to a new fairing & speakers the bike will jump to about 700 pounds. This comes out to .3038 HP per pound. Only after a full performance big bore build will it make more hp per pound than the PA. Better than using the crank HP number would be to use WHP. But I didn’t have that for the PA. I may revisit this as I know Fuel Moto has piped & tuned WHP numbers for the PA. Results are in. Fuel Moto with AC, pipe, & tune made 147whp. 173 crank makes for .3040. Liquid cooling variable valve timing definitely brought some advantages for the PA.

True. I test drove the Sportster S and the Low Rider S and the SS is in another league power wise compared to the Low Rider S. They feel similarly torquey but when the LRS runs out of steam the SS just starts… I decided for the SS for other reasons (electronics and cost) compared to the LRS but the power certainly helped!

It's really interesting to watch what's going on with Harley Davidson nowadays. There are now actual performance Harley's being sold next to performance looking Harley's. But all of the mocos energy is behind the latter. I'm wondering how this is going to go with the performance Harley guys. Do they switch over to the superior performance revmax platform or do they now essentially just cosplay with the "performance" big twins.

Thank you. In my experience the Rev Max engine is an upgrade from the air cooled engines.

Sportys have always been a contender ✌️

The 975S makes me feel great because I have more power than most stock Harleys without spending money on mods.

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He did use horsepower numbers and not torque numbers. Wonder how the results would change if torque numbers were used. 🤔

You'd think so but after reading all the comments on Facebook groups from the big ego touring guys you'd think their dyno sheet means they don't need to prove anything! haha

Shit I always forget the Pan America is 150hp haha

Did it? Really.

I can see why so many people are making them street bikes. If HD won't give us the Bronx, we will make our own!

Smart man! Appreciate the support as well.

It’s a new seat offered by Harley. I believe it’s called the switchback maybe? I’m told it only fits the new body style though.

And sometimes not enough brakes! Guys running around with 20k in the motor and stock brakes haha.

Hell yeah, brother. Save the performance and excitement for those metrics.

Torque is a thing. I've ridden some fast Harley's down the drag strip. Very fast in fact.