This Harley has 193 hp and 168 lb-ft of torque
Harley’s aren’t slow, as long as you’re willing to put the effort in.
Harley-Davidsons have a reputation for being big and slow. This custom Harley-Davidson CVO Road Glide ST is still big, but it definitely isn’t slow.
Thanks to a series of modifications, which includes boosting capacity to 2343 cc, the bike now delivers peak power outputs of 193 horsepower and 168 lb-ft of torque.
In terms of horsepower, that puts the Harley roughly on par with a Suzuki Hayabusa (190 hp). In terms of torque, it outguns every production motorcycle we can think of. Only the Triumph Rocket 3 R comes close (163 lb-ft of torque, claimed).
For a sense of how much has changed, the standard (is any CVO model really “standard”) CVO Road Glide ST has a 1977cc Milwaukee-Eight 121 High Output V-twin engine that claims 126 hp and 142 lb-ft of torque.
The modifications were made by Moonshine Harley-Davidson, a dealership based in Franklin, Tennessee. They started by swapping out the bike’s engine with a 2212cc Harley crate motor, which was then bored out to 2343 cc.
From there, they added a custom flywheel, camshaft, pushrods, valves, and throttle bodies, as well as a Rekluse clutch and custom exhaust system. The suspension has been upgraded, too.
Carbon fibre parts have been added, though I doubt they managed to cancel out the weight gain that one assumes would have come from the addition of a crate motor. Probably the biggest waste of money comes from those weird floorboards, which look like aluminum snowshoes.
But, to each their own. There’s no doubt this build would have cost thousands and thousands of dollars, so if the customer wants those floorboards that’s their prerogative.
Moonshine Harley-Davidson doesn’t say how much this so-called “ST Dominator” custom weighs. However, a standard CVO Road Glide ST has a 360kg wet weight. By that metric, it gives this custom bike a power-to-weight ratio of just over 53hp/100kg. That puts it right in line with a Triumph Tiger Sport 800.
For what it’s worth, however, Moonshine’s numbers come from a dyno, which means they’re more real-world accurate than the claims of manufacturers. In the hands of a good marketing copywriter, it’s likely this bike would claim to have well in excess of 200 hp.
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Chris Cope is a fourth-generation journalist, originally from Texas. He has lived in the UK for roughly two decades and has been writing about motorcycles for most of that time. He has written for dozens of publications and websites in the UK, US, Canada, and Australia.
