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2009 Harley-Davidson Road King Classic
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If there is one Harley-Davidson motorcycle that would personify the classic styling, large displacement, and the true spirit of the American heavy cruiser, it would be the Road King Classic. The bike shares much in common with others in the touring line and with the Road King in particular. Of particular note are the full size, classic fenders, the full-length floorboards for both riders, oversized, 6-gallon gas tank, and classic two-up seat. For 2009 the Road King Classic retains its 16-inch front and rear laced steel wheels and wide-whitewall tires. Tooled leather covers the seat trim and the leather-covered saddlebags. Touring features auxiliary passing lights and, unlike other members of the touring lineup, standard cruise control. Two-tone fender graphics are new for this year as is a new license plate bracket which fixes the tag directly over the tail lamp. The Road King Classic is one of the largest motorcycles [...]
2009 Harley-Davidson Electra Glide Standard
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The Electra Glide Standard is still one of the most popular Harley-Davidson touring models sold today. Created with the full intention of properly balancing comfort, style, and touring performance, these three characteristics are flawlessly integrated into the 2009 model. As with the other members of the Electra Glide family, this model gets a redesigned frame that is designed to increase strength, reduce vibration, and enhance overall ride quality. It is stronger and can safely handle an increase of 70 lbs in load capacity. Designers coupled the all-new frame with a new swingarm, wheels and tires, and engine mounting system, which allows the chassis to create a foundation for an all-new long-haul touring experience. The key styling elements of these motorcycles, however, are essentially unchanged so that the distinctive character and mechanical beauty of each Touring model is preserved. The 96 cubic-inch engine features a new isolated drive system and is [...]
2009 Harley Davidson CVO Ultra Classic Electra Glide
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All too often the Harley-Davidson touring crowd feels left out or under-served in the yearly CVO lineup. Not in 2009. The new Ultra Classic Electra Glide was designed from the ground up take you from coast to coast in comfort while wrapping you in a big of nostalgia along the way. The CVO Ultra Classic Electra Glide is tasteful blend of custom paint, a kicked-up powertrain and a host of premium Harley-Davidson Genuine Motor Accessories fused together by the all-new 2009 Harley-Davidson Touring chassis. The result is perhaps the most exciting touring motorcycle ever to roll off the line. This luxury touring motorcycle is powered by the 110 cubic-inch Screamin’ Eagle engine. The motor produces 113 ft-lbs of torque and when mated to the 6-Speed Cruise Drive transmission, this 1360 lb. beast is more than capable of providing smooth acceleration, tackling steep inclines, and dominating the passing lane. Mechanical enhancements [...]
2009 Harley-Davidson Road King
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In an effort to enhance an already proven design, Harley-Davidson revisited their Road King in 2009 and made a number of changes, some small, some large. None of the changes, however, resulted in an adulteration of the core spirit of the Road King, specifically a blend of touring comfort and aggressive style for a new generation. Classic styling touches include the chrome, 5-light Hiawatha headlamp and clear-lens auxiliary passing lights, chrome engine covers, a deep-skirted FL front fender and white-stripe tires. The seat has been restyled for 2009 with chrome accents and a new low-mount license bracket locates the plate below the tail lamp, with new LED license plate illumination. The traditional straight-up Road Glide windshield remains unchanged as does the tank-mounted electronic speedometer/odometer combo with integrated clock. Still featured front-and-center are classic styling cues like full-length rider and passenger floorboards, a detachable Lexan windshield, and injection-molded GTX hard saddlebags. [...]
2009 Harley-Davidson Road Glide
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The 2009 Harley-Davidson Road Glide retains its Shark Nose image, its power, and its touring comfort while providing the added benefits of stability and ride quality with the integration of the new frame. The good news doesn’t stop there either as minor upgrades throughout the bike take an already good platform and make it great. While style tweaks and new models tend to dominate the headlines of biker magazines and bring traffic into Harley-Davidson showrooms, the company decided to enhance the entire lineup of touring motorcycles with a completely redesigned frame and swingarm. This new backbone is welded robotically and was engineered to provide better structural support for bikes like the ’09 Road Glide while actually reducing the number of component parts which make up the frame. The goal of the touring motorcycle engineering team was to enhance the line so that there was no discernable wobble or vibration at [...]
2009 Harley-Davidson Electra Glide Classic
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For the 2009 production year, Harley-Davidson decided to redesign the frame of their Electra Glide Classic line of touring motorcycles. The rebuild was focused on comfort over long cross-country rides. The result is the kind of motorcycle that a passionate long-haul rider needs in order to get the full joy out of a hundreds (if not thousands) of miles traveled during warm spring and summer months. Weighing in at over 800 lbs the ’09 Electra Glide Classic is given enough power to confidently move all that steel down the highway with the classic Harley-Davidson 96 cubic-inch V-Twin engine coupled to a new isolated drive system. To handle acceleration the motor produces 92.6 ft-lbs of torque and fuel injection comes standard so even this bike gets a full 54 mpg on the highway. The chassis is based on a single-spar, rigid backbone frame that supports an increase in load capacity of [...]
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