Limited-Edition Electra Glide Highway King Bagger Joins Harley-Davidson Icons Motorcycle Collection

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Despite its old-school flair, the Electra Glide Highway King incorporates a healthy dose of modern technology, including emulsion technology rear shock absorbers that riders can adjust using a single knob. (Photo courtesy of Harley-Davidson.)

Harley-Davidson has introduced the limited-edition Electra Glide Highway King touring bike to its Icons Motorcycle Collection program, the third addition to the annual program that offers fresh interpretations of iconic Harley models. An “exercise in unabashed nostalgia,” Harley says the bike is inspired by the 1968 FLH Electric Glide, which “ruled the road in an era of paper maps and 15-cent burgers.” The company is limiting production to just 1,700 individually numbered units, offering 1,000 in Hi-Fi Orange and 750 in Hi-Fi Magenta.

“In its day this was a really deluxe motorcycle,” says Harley-Davidson Vice President of Design and Creative Director Brad Richards of the 1968 FLH Electric Glide. “The colors we’ve selected for the Highway King model are reminiscent of the original color options offered in 1968. We carefully matched each color in the lower section of the windshield. In 1968, the accessory fiberglass saddlebags were only offered in white, so we’ve done the same in 2023. The result is a thoroughly modern motorcycle that looks unapologetically old-school.”

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A special program graphic on the top of the fuel tank denotes membership in Harley-Davidson’s Icons Motorcycle Collection. (Photo courtesy of Harley-Davidson.)

The Look Of An Icon

The color options and hard-shell Birch White saddlebags aren’t the only components of the Electra Glide Highway King that evoke a look and feel nostalgic of 1960s Harley-Davison FL motorcycles. The tank badge, which features a serialized number laser-etched in the console insert, takes after one used in 1968. Also reminiscent of that era are the special-edition bike’s one-person seat, which is wrapped in a black-and-white cover, and the chrome rail mounted over an adjustable coil spring and shock absorber.

The stately, old-school aesthetic also receives key contributions from the chrome front fender rails, saddlebag rails, front fender skirt, and Ventilator air cleaner cover. The chrome steel-laced wheels and wide Dunlop Harley-Davidson Series whitewall tires further enhance the bike’s retro style, as do the round halogen headlamp and auxiliary lamps situated in front of the fetching, two-tone windshield.

Deceptively High-Tech

The Electra Glide Highway King may look like it rocketed straight out of the “Swingin’ 60s,” but it offers the heavy dose of modern technology and comfort you’d expect from a present-day Harley-Davidson Grand American Touring bike. The 95-horsepower (71-kilowatt) Milwaukee-Eight 114 V-Twin engine that powers the motorcycle delivers 122 pounds-foot (165 newton-meters) of torque at 5,020 rpm. The power plant, which accepts applicable Screamin’ Eagle Stage Upgrade kits, works with a 6-speed Cruise Drive transmission.

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Harley-Davidson will produce just 1,700 units of the limited-edition Electra Glide Highway King; 1,000 will be available in Hi-Fi Orange, and 750 units will be swathed in Hi-Fi Magenta. (Photo courtesy of Harley-Davidson.)

Harley mounts the engine on a single-spar, mild steel, tubular Harley-Davidson Touring frame, which boasts a rigid backbone design and incorporates 49-millimeter front forks with dual-bending valve suspension technology. Several safety-enhancing systems are also onboard, including Reflex linked Brembo brakes and cornering enhanced anti-lock braking and electronic linked braking, cornering enhanced traction control, drag-torque slip control, and vehicle hold control systems.

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Source: Harley-Davidson