‘Whack open that billet throttle and there’s a noise and thunder that’s simply a quantum leap above a standard Hog’ America has long lived by the mantra that bigger is better or more is more and, in motorcycling, there’s no better example of this than Harley-Davidson’s special CVO machines.
CVO, in case you haven’t come across the breed before, are machines made especially by Harley’s Custom Vehicle Operations programme. The results are limited-edition, fullyspecced and blinged-up versions of their bikes, a handful of different types of which are built each year.
For 2016, four different CVO models are being offered in the UK, namely: the CVO Road Glide Ultra (at a whopping £30,695 compared to the stock version’s £21,795); CVO Limited (£30,695/£21,745); CVO Street Glide (£28,895/£19,645) and this, the CVO…