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What is the best Harley-Davidson model of all time?

By YPB Team

Nineteen machines from the shed in 1903 to the adventure bike aimed at BMW. Knuckleheads, wartime WLAs, the Fat Boy, and the water-cooled outliers Milwaukee loyalists argued about.

  1. Fat Boy — ranked #11
    Fat Boy
    The solid-disc-wheel softail that became the most recognisable Harley silhouette in the world.
    1000pts
  2. Electra Glide — ranked #22
    Electra Glide
    The 1965 full-dress tourer that invented the fairing-and-saddlebags American highway bike.
    900pts
  3. Heritage Softail Classic — ranked #33
    Heritage Softail Classic
    Studded leather bags and a windshield: the nostalgia bike Harley has never stopped selling.
    771pts
  4. Sportster 883 — ranked #44
    Sportster 883
    The small-displacement V-twin that served as most riders' first Harley for four decades.
    692pts
  5. WLA Liberator — ranked #55
    WLA Liberator
    The olive-drab wartime flathead that carried despatch riders across Europe and North Africa.
    680pts
  6. Road King — ranked #66
    Road King
    The stripped-back tourer with a detachable windshield, equally at home on a commute or a coast run.
    600pts
  7. Road Glide — ranked #77
    Road Glide
    The frame-mounted shark-nose fairing that splits the wind and divides the fanbase.
    600pts
  8. V-Rod — ranked #88
    V-Rod
    The liquid-cooled, Porsche-engineered outlier that Harley loyalists never quite accepted.
    600pts
  9. Shovelhead — ranked #99
    Shovelhead
    The AMF-era workhorse, unloved when new and now the cheapest way into a vintage big twin.
    508pts
  10. Panhead — ranked #1010
    Panhead
    The postwar engine, and the bike, that the chopper builders of the 1960s cut up first.
    507pts
  11. Nightster — ranked #1111
    Nightster
    The modern liquid-cooled Sportster successor, built to bring new riders into the brand.
    507pts
  12. EL Knucklehead — ranked #1212
    EL Knucklehead
    The 1936 overhead-valve V-twin that set the template every big Harley has followed since.
    507pts
  13. Fat Bob — ranked #1313
    Fat Bob
    Twin headlights, fat tyres and a stance that reads more street brawler than cruiser.
    400pts
  14. Street Glide — ranked #1414
    Street Glide
    The batwing-faired bagger that has topped Harley's own sales charts for years.
    400pts
  15. Low Rider S — ranked #1515
    Low Rider S
    A blacked-out performance cruiser with a club-style fairing and a following among younger riders.
    400pts
  16. Pan America 1250 — ranked #1616
    Pan America 1250
    Harley's first serious adventure bike, aimed squarely at territory BMW had held for decades.
    120pts

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