Harley-Davidson to build 131 special CVO Road Glide RR bagger models priced at $110,000 each

Harley-Davidson are marking their involvement in the King of the Baggers (KOTB) racing series with a limited run of 131 CVO Road Glide RR models, priced at a $110,000 (roughly £85,000 at time of writing) each.

Hand assembled solely for the American market, they can still be used on the road, and come powered by a 2147cc Screamin’ Eagle 131 V-Twin engine – producing a claimed 150.6lb.ft of torque at just 4750rpm.

It’s a motor that’s shared with Harley’s factory race bikes and is the most powerful Milwaukee-Eight engine ever factory installed on a road bike by the firm. There’s a revised camshaft profile and large air intake, and the redline has been upped to 6500rpm.

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“Taking inspiration from the track and onto the street, the Harley-Davidson CVO Road Glide RR is truly the ultimate in performance,” Chairman, CEO and President of Harley-Davidson, Jochen Zeitz said. “With this limited series of motorcycles, we’ve taken all the lessons from the track and created the pinnacle of street-legal bagger performance.”

The Milwaukee firm are hitting the 2025 KOTB racing series hard, with a three-rider factory line-up including British former MotoGP star, Bradley Smith. They lost the series in 2024 to close rivals, Indian Motorcycle.

H-D’s season got off to a perfect start as part of the Daytona 200 weekend of March 8-9, with factory rider Kyle Wyman winning both races within the Floridian high-speed bowl to take an early lead in this year’s championship. Smith, meanwhile, took a second place during his debut ride.

“I thought my racing career was done, but funny how things turn around from absolutely nowhere when you least expect it,” Smith said. “It’s been great to be welcomed to MotoAmerica.”

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Back to the special edition, and the Road Glide RR also features CNC ported cylinder heads with CNC machined combustion chambers and ports amongst a wide range of engine internal modifications.

A heavier soundtrack is also unlocked courtesy of a full Akrapovič titanium exhaust system. A total of 22.7kg is said to have been cut from the standard CVO Road Glide ST model, now weighing 340.2kg overall – complete with rider comforts like in-built speakers and a wide colour TFT screen.

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Helping to stop all that weight is a set of CNC machined Brembo GP4-RX front calipers and T-Drive front discs – with suspension coming courtesy of 43mm Öhlins FGR 253 Hypersport Superbike front forks and twin shocks, with a new billet swingarm cutting weight and improving stiffness by a claimed 10%.