Harley-davidson's $110k Motorcycle Doesn't Know What The Word Depreciation Means

Harley-Davidson isn't a sanction you mightiness readily subordinate pinch raw, unadulterated velocity and knee-dragging cornering. No, nan Motor Company's long-running history of lumpy 45-degree V-Twins is much apt to conjure intelligence images of "Easy Rider," nan silly debauchery of Daytona Bike Week, aliases highway-faring reliable guys pinch Iron Butt Association patches. It's conscionable nan reality of nan MoCo's offerings, for illustration nan heartbreakingly expensive, yet comfortable 2026 Harley-Davidson Road Glide Limited.

Here's nan thing, though: nary 1 told nan 2025 Harley-Davidson CVO Road Glide RR to instrumentality to nan lazy, long-legged bagger plan. Instead of focusing connected comfortableness and utility, nan Bar & Shield fto the CVO Road Glide RR do its champion King Of The Baggers (KOTB) impression. The consequence is rather perchance nan wildest street-legal motorcycle Harley-Davidson has ever rolled out: an unhinged replica KOTB racing motorcycle. 

That said, whoever presumably had nan task of telling nan stratospherically-spendy CVO Road Glide RR to instrumentality to nan road whitethorn person besides grounded to show it to depreciate. A glimpse astatine nan limited-run, motorsport-inspired bagger's income information suggests it mightiness beryllium thing of an appreciating asset. Hell, group look keen to flip it.

The Milwaukee motorcycle brand wasn't awkward astir nan value for its limited-run 2025 Harley-Davidson CVO Road Glide RR. At $110,000, it's still nan priciest accumulation motorcycle nan institution has ever produced. But for illustration nan likewise absurd Dodge Challenger SRT Demon, buyers person taken to buying and flipping nan CVO Road Glide RR. 

Perhaps nan champion illustration of this is simply a CVO Road Glide RR for waste successful Parkville, Maryland. The seller brazenly posted nan 18-mile motorcycle astatine $210,000, an eye-watering $100,000 premium complete its original database price. Another CVO Road Glide RR that went up for waste astatine a Barrett-Jackson auction successful Florida earlier this twelvemonth sold for $137,500, a 25% summation complete nan bike's original suggested price.

Now, that doesn't mean each CVO Road Glide RR will make a sidesplitting astatine auction. Mecum hosted nan No. 72 motorcycle astatine its Glendale, Arizona 2026 auction pinch a specified 26 miles connected nan odometer. It did extremity up selling, but for a value nether nan original: It netted $106,700 astatine auction, a 3% driblet successful worth from erstwhile it was new. In yet different ill-fated effort astatine a flip sale, a 10-mile CVO Road Glide RR grounded to waste astatine Mecum's Kissimmee, Florida 2026 auction for $110,000. There mightiness beryllium a purchaser for each bike, but that didn't look to beryllium nan lawsuit for motorcycle No. 70.

So what justifies nan six-figure value? The 2025 Harley-Davidson CVO Road Glide RR is much KOTB racing motorcycle than a FLTRX Road Glide pinch humble treatments from the Motor Company's Custom Vehicle Operations division. For starters, Harley built conscionable 131 CVO RRs, each by hand, and distributed them done nan brand's U.S. trader web exclusively. Keeping nan "131" inclination moving, nan bosom of nan CVO Road Glide RR is simply a people aspirated 131-cubic-inch Screamin' Eagle V-Twin. With 153 highest horsepower and 150 pound-feet of torque connected tap, it's rather simply nan astir powerful Milwaukee-Eight V-Twin nan Motor Company has ever installed successful a accumulation bike.

In summation to nan big-boy engine, nan American motorcycle marque gave nan CVO Road Glide RR a big of Screamin' Eagle capacity parts, including liquid-cooled machine numeric power (CNC) machine-ported cylinder heads, larger intake and exhaust valves, a high-performance camshaft, a high-volume lipid pump, a larger 2.68-inch throttle body, and a high-flow aerial filter. And dissimilar nan lesser Road Glides, nan CVO RR gets a afloat titanium Akrapovič two-into-one exhaust system, ditching 10 pounds compared to nan modular setup.

The CVO RR doesn't extremity there, either. Inverted Öhlins forks and adjustable 14-inch Öhlins rear daze absorbers work successful tandem to assistance things up 2 inches and springiness nan motorcycle handling characteristics you simply won't find connected a CVO Road Glide ST. Don't deliberation for a infinitesimal that you'll beryllium keeping up pinch full-fat KOTB bikes, though; nan CVO RR adds a fewer things you wouldn't find connected Kyle Wyman's race-prepped motorcycle, for illustration a 785-pound curb weight and a immense thin-film transistor screen.