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Harley Davidson VR1000 Street Version For Sale

By Paul Crowe

Harley Davidson VR1000

When is the last time you saw one of these for sale? Here’s a street version of a Harley Davidson VR1000 with only 4 factory miles on the odometer, formerly owned by Scott Parker. I was checking out the latest offerings on eBay and came across this beauty. It looks about as clean and original as they come. I have no idea how many of these were ever manufactured but I would think the term “limited production” really does apply here..

These weren’t very successful as racers but as an interesting piece of Harley Davidson history, they’re right up there.

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Harley Davidson VR1000

Posted on October 4, 2008 Filed Under: Vintage Motorcycles


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Comments

  1. Gary says

    October 4, 2008 at 9:49 am

    Its too bad that Harley didn’t go this route with the v-rod engines. Think of the sporty-bikes, and sport-tourers they might have sold. Or not….

  2. Jeff says

    October 4, 2008 at 11:23 pm

    Ditto One wonders ?

  3. Matt in NC says

    October 5, 2008 at 3:28 pm

    These did get sold to the public…

    … In Poland.

    There were homologation rules that had to be met for AMA competition, and only a “production” bike that was available to the public was allowed in SB racing. The rules didn’t say where. They sold enough in Poland to be allowed. HD didn’t let the US DOT have one, and one can only assume on purpose.

    Sturgis sure would be crazier if this was a big seller stateside, wouldn’t it.

  4. ElectricMotorcycles.net says

    October 6, 2008 at 6:02 pm

    This is just down the road from me. I’ll gladly go test ride it for anyone who’s too far away and report back.

  5. Bill says

    November 14, 2009 at 10:01 am

    Gary/Jeff
    It is the VR engine. If have practically every magazine article on the VR and when the V-Rod came out, could easily see the family resembleance (I am sure someone at Harley added a “-” and “od” to “VR” to arrive at “V-Rod”). The architechture is identcal (60 degree V, double overhead chain-driven cams, 5-speed transmission, liquid cooled) and the entire concept was initally done (to the best of my knowledge) in the USA (I had a freind who worked at Weisco Piston who said they helped with piston development). My understanding is that Porche developed the design for street use (EPA, power curve etc.). Owning this machine would be like dying and going to heaven. I would be happy with a Street Rod.

  6. chris says

    December 23, 2009 at 10:21 am

    Hello.
    Are the bike still for sale ?

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