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Harley-Davidson CustomV Is Here to Quench Our Thirst Until H-D 21 Kicks Off

2021 is shaping up to be a pivotal year for American bike maker Harley-Davidson. On January 19, Milwaukee will be showing how it plans to reinvent itself this year through its first digital event ever, the H-D 21.
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The show will be used to present all that Harley has up its sleeve this year, from parts and accessories to riding gear and apparel, minus the highly anticipated Pan America, which will be teased in some way or another, but will not be unveiled until its own dedicated event on February 22.

So, that means for the next couple of weeks or so all should be silent on the official Harley front, and we’re only left with digging up great or less so Harley projects elsewhere. So we did, and here is one of the first customized Milwaukee two-wheelers of the year, the CustomV.

The bike is an older project of a German custom shop which goes by the name Thunderbike. Like many others in the garage’s portfolio, it too is based on the VRSC family.

VRSC is short for V-Twin Racing Street Custom, and from 2001 to 2017 was the bike maker’s response to the muscle motorcycles other were making, especially to the Japanese ones. It was quite successful in its time, having spawned several variants, topped by the all-mighty and not-street legal VRXSE Destroyer.

The V-Rod we have here, an older Thunderbike project, is not as customized as others in the Germans’ offering for the segment, but it does bring several unique pieces of hardware that make it stand out, and even if most of them are minor (things like license plate lighting, turn signals or rear fender) they are effective in sending the custom signal across.

Dubbed by the garage behind it CustomV, the bike cost around 3,000 euros to put together, which at today’s exchange rates amounts to roughly $3,600.
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About the author: Daniel Patrascu
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Daniel loves writing (or so he claims), and he uses this skill to offer readers a "behind the scenes" look at the automotive industry. He also enjoys talking about space exploration and robots, because in his view the only way forward for humanity is away from this planet, in metal bodies.
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