---
title: "You Can Now Buy a $4,200 Bicycle From Harley-Davidson"
description: "Following the shocking mic-drop announcement from Indian Motorcycle that the hotly anticipated FTR 1200 is going into production, its chief rival Harley-Davidson just countered with a bombshell of its own: the iconic motorcycle brand will now be making...bicycles."
date: "2018-06-20"
modified: "2018-06-21"
authors:
  - name: "Eric Brandt"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/eric-brandt"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/21644/you-can-now-buy-a-4200-bicycle-from-harley-davidson"
categories:
  - "Motorcycles"
  - "News"
  - "The Garage"
tags:
  - "bicycle"
  - "harley-davidson"
  - "harley-davidson museum"
  - "motorcycles"
  - "Replica"
---

# You Can Now Buy a $4,200 Bicycle From Harley-Davidson

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/images-by-url-td/content/2018/06/harley-bike.jpg>)
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In the same month as the shocking mic-drop announcement from Indian Motorcycle that the hotly anticipated [FTR 1200 is going into production](<https://www.thedrive.com/motorcycles/21574/indian-ftr-1200-confirmed-for-production-arriving-in-2019>), its chief rival [Harley-Davidson](<https://www.thedrive.com/motorcycles/18406/a-deep-dive-into-the-2018-harley-davidson-lineup>) has a bombshell of its own: the iconic motorcycle brand will now be making...bicycles.

But H-D won’t be building bikes for the mass-market. Instead, it’s planning a limited production run of just 10 hand-built models which will be replicas of the ones Harley sold a century ago, according to the [*Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel*](<https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/2018/06/06/harley-davidson-museum-selling-replicas-1917-bicycle/674894002/>). From 1917-1922, H-D made pedal-powered bicycles alongside its then-revolutionary motorcycles. The idea is apparently to introduce younger riders to the brand, which is something [Harley-Davidson has been seriously struggling with in recent years.](<https://www.thedrive.com/motorcycles/18407/heres-how-harley-davidson-is-planning-on-attracting-the-new-riders-it-needs>)

![message-editor%2F1529511662512-h-dbicycle.png](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/message-editor/1529511662512-h-dbicycle.png>)
**Harley-Davidson Museum**

Oh, and Harley-Davidson isn't really building these bikes. Instead, it’s Heritage Bicycles of Chicago, Illinois that built the first replica and will presumably build the other nine. It’s specifically modeled after a 1917 Model 7-17 Standard, for any pre-war pedal heads out there. The new model is also little bigger than the original bike, because we haven't gotten any smaller since then. Neat touches include the “H-D” logo stamped into the front sprocket and an olive green frame with hand-applied pinstripes.

These bikes will be available for purchase this summer and will have a price tag of approximately $4,200. What makes them worth $4,200? Great question. Probably the fact that they’re hand-built by a serious bike shop, combined with those two letters on the front, but it’s still hard to imagine paying that kind of money for a bicycle that’s just a replica and probably won’t be ridden very much. If we owned a $4,200 bicycle, it certainly wouldn’t see a lot of action.

If for some reason you want to spend $4,200 on one of these, they can be reserved at the [Harley-Davidson Museum](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/15946/harley-davidson-museum-offering-free-admission-to-vets-and-active-military-this-weekend>) in Milwaukee with online ordering coming soon. In classic Harley-Davidson fashion, this newest model is loaded with outdated technology and doesn’t come close to what its competitors offer for a fraction of the price.

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