New 2025 Harley-Davidson Fats Boy Grey Ghost Dipped in Chrome and Fashion! • Whole Motorbike

MILWAUKEE  Harley-Davidson immediately launched the gleaming Fats Boy Grey Ghost mannequin, the fifth installment in its Icons Motorbike Assortment. This new, limited-production Icons mannequin celebrates the thirty fifth anniversary of the introduction of the Fats Boy, a bike that continues to be a cultural icon and one of the vital recognizable bikes to ever roll down the street. The Fats Boy Grey Ghost mannequin salutes a celebrity of bike design with a gleaming new Reflection end that provides all the motorbike the looks of being dipped in chrome.

The Icons Motorbike Assortment encompasses a restricted launch of a brand new motorbike mannequin that gives a contemporary interpretation of an iconic Harley-Davidson motorbike. Icons Motorbike Assortment fashions are serialized and will embody further options above the bottom motorbike. Manufacturing of the Fats Boy Grey Ghost mannequin will probably be restricted to 1,990 whole bikes globally, (paying homage to the unique 1990 Fats Boy).

The Fats Boy Grey Ghost mannequin celebrates the enduring significance of the unique “fats customized” motorbike.

“The unique Fats Boy mannequin took the look, proportions, and silhouette of a 1949 Hydra-Glide and utterly modernized it for a brand new technology of riders,” explains Brad Richards, Harley-Davidson Vice President of Design and Inventive Director, Bikes. “These riders appreciated our post-war design DNA but in addition discovered themselves drawn to the clear simplicity of up to date industrial design.”

At its inception, the bike was meant to have a restricted lifespan. As an alternative, the Fats Boy motorbike has spanned three powertrain generations and a whole redesign of its Softail chassis and for 35 years has maintained its unique energy to impress with unmatched presence and plain model.

Gorgeous Reflection End
The Fats Boy is a giant, daring motorbike designed for riders who need to make a press release. That assertion is amplified by an Icons Assortment Fats Boy Grey Ghost mannequin that can shimmer in daylight prefer it was machined from a stable alloy billet and polished to a mirror end. The Reflection end is created utilizing the bodily vapor deposition (PVD) course of, often known as skinny movie coating, by which a stable materials is vaporized in a vacuum and deposited onto the floor of an element, on this case the gas tank and motorbike fenders. That is completed by making use of a optimistic cost to the stable materials (an aluminum alloy) and a unfavourable cost to the motorbike half. Following the deposition course of, the half is painted with an ordinary clear coat end.

PVD has been used previously by Harley-Davidson to complete some small components equivalent to tank medallions and exhaust shields. Its use on the Fats Boy Grey Ghost mannequin fenders and gas tank is the primary time PVD has been used on components this huge for a manufacturing Harley-Davidson mannequin. The precision of this coating leads to a shocking end that’s chrome-like in look however is extra complete than chrome plating and thus will meet Harley-Davidson requirements for corrosion resistance that aren’t doable with chroming on these components.

Chrome aspect covers full the bike’s general vivid end, complemented by a body completed in vivid silver powder coat. Styling cues impressed by the unique Fats Boy mannequin embody a spherical air cleaner, yellow accents on the decrease rocker covers, powertrain covers, and tank console insert. Extra particulars—equivalent to a leather-based seat valance with lacing and tassels, and a black leather-based tank strap with laced edging—add to the nostalgic aesthetic. Three-dimensional gas tank medallions replicate the long-lasting winged graphic from the unique Fats Boy. A commemorative tank console insert is etched with the bike’s distinctive serialization quantity, whereas the Icons Assortment medallion is positioned on the rear fender.

Lakester solid aluminum wheels, unique to the Fats Boy mannequin, emphasize a daring stance. Excessive-performance Michelin Scorcher 11 tires (Entrance 160/60R18, Rear 240/40R18) improve the experience.

Elevated Efficiency and Expertise
The Fats Boy Grey Ghost mannequin shares the elevated efficiency and technical options launched with the 2025 Fats Boy motorbike.

• NEW Milwaukee-Eight 117 Customized powertrain is tuned to ship 101 horsepower (75 kW) and 122 lb. ft. (171 Nm) peak torque, an influence improve – 7 p.c extra horsepower and three p.c extra torque – over the 2024 Fats Boy 114 mannequin.
  • This engine is provided with a 2-into-2 exhaust with particular person catalysts. Mufflers characteristic superior light-weight materials that works to trim excessive frequencies and emphasize low frequencies for a robust sound.
  • 4-valve cylinder heads characteristic revised combustion chamber form, oval consumption ports and low-profile consumption valve seats designed to enhance efficiency and gas economic system.
  • Engine oil is routed from a frame-mounted oil cooler by cylinder head cooling passages. This cylinder head cooling system additional optimizes thermal consolation for the rider, particularly in low-speed driving conditions and scorching climate.
• NEW Suspension is recalibrated to optimize rider consolation.
  • Twin-bending valve 49 mm forks hold entrance wheel involved with the street floor a snug experience.
  • Beneath-seat hydraulic pre-load adjustment permits the rider to keep up optimum rear suspension efficiency for the prevailing load and street circumstances.
• NEW Selectable Trip Modes (Street, Rain and Sport) electronically management the efficiency traits of the motorbike and the extent of expertise intervention
• NEW Rider Security Enhancements by Harley-Davidson is a group of applied sciences designed to boost rider confidence throughout sudden conditions or antagonistic street circumstances.
  • Straight Line/Cornering Antilock Braking System (ABS/C-ABS)
  • Straight Line/Cornering Traction Management System (TCS/C-TCS)
  • Straight Line/Cornering Drag Torque Slip Management (DSCS/C-DSCS)
  • Tire Strain Monitoring (TPMS)
• NEW All-LED Lighting – together with headlamp, tail and brake lights and alerts – improve conspicuity.
• NEW USB-C Energy Port affords sooner information switch than the earlier USB-A port, reversible plug orientation, and compatibility with newer gadgets. The port location is on the front-left aspect of the motorbike beneath the gas tank.
• NEW Heated Gear Connectors have been relocated from behind a aspect panel to the highest of the rear fender under the seat the place they’re much simpler to entry.
• NEW 5-Inch Console-Mounted instrument locations an analog speedometer above a multi-function LCD digital show. The rider can use the Journey hand management button to scroll by accessible data within the LCD show

Historical past of an Prompt Icon
In 1990, a time when the motorbike media and far of the driving public was consumed with the escalating efficiency of sport bikes, the Harley-Davidson Fats Boy mannequin landed like a thundering heavy-metal energy chord.

The Fats Boy mannequin was impressed by a customized Harley motorbike based mostly on the Softail platform created in 1987 at Harley-Davidson Montréal by the dealership normal supervisor Duc Dufour and technician Denis Lavoie, which they known as a Lowboy. That bike featured slammed rear suspension, an aluminum disc wheel and fiberglass fender on the entrance and a large handlebar. Noticed by Harley-Davidson Govt Jerry Wilke, an instance was shipped to Milwaukee. Whereas the Lowboy customized supplied some inspiration, the motorbike that may change into the Fats Boy mannequin was created by the H-D styling staff led by Willie G. Davidson and Louie Netz.

“On the 1990 Fats Boy mannequin, the wheels are the defining attribute,” wrote Davidson in his guide 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. Because the whole bike was silver, we wanted one thing vivid to set it off. I added yellow trim to the rocker containers, the derby cowl, the timer cowl, and the ignition change. We constructed a Fats Boy prototype, and I took it to Daytona so we might get one-on-one suggestions from the riders.”

Solely Harley-Davidson would have the chutzpah to call a bike Fats Boy.

“You’re in all probability questioning how we got here up with a reputation like Fats Boy, and I’ve heard a whole lot of tales about this, almost all of that are unfaithful,” wrote Davidson. “Right here’s the true story: it’s powerful to provide you with names that will probably be standard on the road. We have been in search of one thing uncommon and possibly even slightly irreverent, as a result of there’s one thing kind of cool about poking enjoyable at your merchandise every so often. To me, and to a whole lot of different insiders who’d seen it, the bike had an enormous ‘fats’ look. So the oldsters in advertising and marketing got here up with the identify Fats Boy.”

Fats Boy Mannequin Timeline

1990: The Fats Boy mannequin debuts in a single colour, Effective Silver Metallic, powered by a rigid-mounted Evolution V-Twin engine.

1991: The Fats Boy motorbike entered standard tradition with its featured look within the movement image “Terminator 2: Judgment Day,” by which actor Arnold Schwarzenegger rides a Fats Boy motorbike by Los Angeles in a dramatic chase scene. The film was a worldwide sensation, serving to cement the Fats Boy mannequin as consultant of the Harley-Davidson model in lots of markets, particularly Europe. One of many bikes used within the film is now within the Harley-Davidson Museum assortment.

2000: The counterbalanced Twin Cam 88B™ engine debuts in Softail fashions, together with the Fats Boy mannequin.

2005: The limited-production CVO™ Fats Boy mannequin, powered by a Twin Cam 103™ engine, started a two-year run. Styling highlights included slammed rear suspension, metal pan-style seat, chrome pillion, and a brand new metal-grind end accent with three colour choices.

2010: The Fats Boy Lo mannequin dropped the seat peak to only 24.25 inches, because of slammed entrance and rear suspension and a low-profile seat.

2016: The Fats Boy S mannequin is powered by the muscular Screamin’ Eagle Twin Cam 110™ engine and completed in Darkish Customized™ styling.

2018: The Fats Boy mannequin is certainly one of eight revolutionary Softail bikes based mostly on an all-new chassis that includes monoshock rear suspension and twin counterbalanced Milwaukee-Eight V-Twin engines. The styling is all new – an enormous entrance finish, a brand new headlight form, and an enormous 240 mm rear tire – however the bike can be fairly clearly a Fats Boy mannequin.

2020: Harley-Davidson celebrates an icon with the introduction of the Fats Boy 114 thirtieth Anniversary Restricted Version motorbike. Restyled in darkish finishes with bronze highlights and powered by a Milwaukee-Eight 114 engine, manufacturing of the thirtieth Anniversary Fats Boy was restricted to 2,500 examples.