Harley-Davidson released shots of their 2017 tourers along with brand new “Milwaukee-Eight” engines. The 2017 product lineup of HD is said to be equipped with their Ninth only big V-twin engine ever manufactured in the 102 years of Harley Davidson’s history. Along with the brand new powerful engine the upcoming product lineup of Harley is also going to be featured with revised rear and front suspension setup.The brand new Milwaukee-Eight HD V-Twin engine comes in two variants, Milwaukee-Eight 107 and Milwaukee-Eight 114. The new engine is been designed keeping the heritage of the company in mind, the sound and the feel of Harley is kept intact with the new engine as per the company. Both the variants of Milwaukee-Eight are featured with 4-valve setup in each cylinder making it a total of “Eight” valves depicting the same in the name of the engine. However, the 107 and 114 denote the cubic capacity of the engine in cubic Inch, which on converting comes to 1745cc for 107 and 1870cc for the bigger Milwaukee-Eight 114 engine.
The Milwaukee-Eight engines are said to be by far the most powerful V-twin engines from the stable of Harley Davidson. Despite of the increased performance figures the new Milwaukee-Eight engines are claimed to return better fuel economy as compared to the earlier V-Twin engines made by HD. The 2017 lineup which is said to be equipped with the new engines include- CVO Limited, CVO street Glide, Road King and Road King Classic.By: Farhan Kashif