Persevering with the Harley-Davidson Icons Bike Assortment is the 2025 Harley-Davidson Fats Boy Grey Ghost. This motorbike, like others within the Icons assortment, is a limited-production mannequin, and every unit is serialized with its distinctive mannequin quantity.
The Fats Boy Grey Ghost is straight away recognizable by its Reflection end that makes the gasoline tank and fenders seem as in the event that they have been dipped in chrome however holds up in opposition to corrosion higher than chrome. The end is created utilizing the bodily vapor deposition course of, often known as skinny movie coating, after which painted over with a typical clear coat. This mannequin contains the primary giant components to make use of this course of on a manufacturing H-D motorbike, though it has been used earlier than for small particulars.
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Finishing the shiny look are chrome aspect covers and a body completed in shiny silver powdercoating. Including a pop of colour are yellow accents on the decrease rocker covers, powertrain covers, and tank console insert, and the spherical air cleaner harkens again to the unique 1990 Fats Boy. Different particulars embrace a leather-based seat with lacing and tassels, a black leather-based tank strap with laced edging, fuel-tank medallions with winged graphics, a commemorative tank console insert, and Icons Assortment medallion on the rear fender.
The Harley-Davidson Fats Boy Grey Ghost is an homage to the unique 1990 Fats Boy that was impressed by a customized Softail created in 1987 at Harley-Davidson Montreal. An instance was despatched to Milwaukee, the place a styling group led by Willie G. Davidson and Louie Netz created a manufacturing model, calling it the Fats Boy.
“On the 1990 Fats Boy mannequin, the wheels are the defining attribute,” wrote Davidson in his ebook 100 Years of Harley-Davidson. “The thought was to create a particular look utilizing solid-cast disc wheels. We pushed this distinction additional with a silver monochromatic paint job and silver powder-coated body. For the reason that whole bike was silver, we would have liked one thing shiny to set it off. I added yellow trim to the rocker bins, the derby cowl, the timer cowl, and the ignition change. We constructed a Fats Boy prototype, and I took it to Daytona so we’d get one-on-one suggestions from the riders.”
The Fats Boy was cemented in reputation with its look in Terminator 2: Judgement Day in 1991, during which Arnold Schwarzenegger rides a Fats Boy by Los Angeles in a chase scene. In its 35-year historical past, the Fats Boy has been up to date and improved just a few instances however nonetheless retains its unique attraction as a motorcycle that takes styling cues from the 1949 Hydra-Glide however with a modernized twist.
Like different 2025 Fats Boys, the Harley-Davidson Fats Boy Grey Ghost is powered by a Milwaukee-Eight 117 Customized engine that delivers a claimed 101 hp and 122 lb-ft of torque. It options three experience modes, cornering antilock braking, cornering traction management, cornering drag torque slip management, tire-pressure monitoring, all-LED lighting, a USB-C energy port, and a 5-inch LCD display under the analog speedometer. It additionally options Lakester cast-aluminum wheels which are unique to the Fats Boy and Michelin Scorcher 11 tires.
The 2025 Harley-Davidson Fats Boy Grey Ghost is proscribed to 1,990 items globally and has an MSRP of $25,399.
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