Anybody see the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse materialize today? Hell I haven't even seen a rant post yet.

Its funny that none of the literature actually says water cooled but I guess its only in the head around the exhaust port so HD will still consider it a mostly air cooled engine.

Its a nice execution anyway with the radiators hidden in the lower fairings and the hot air exhausting out the side.

I think for some guys in the really hot climates this may be a welcome option.

 

I started a thread in the engine forum. I was thinking that it might have been a fan.

 

Shhh, don't say "water cooled". Harley has cleverly avoided using that term, and the associated risk of offending their air-cooled traditionalist customers, by calling it "Twin Cooled".

 

For a better idea of how it's implemented...:

2011 Harley-Davidson Water Cooled Engine US Patent

 

Twin cooled...the obvious double entendre.

 

If it is a improvement some will buy the bikes and like the changes or post on here its crap,,, will always be lots of used low mile air cooled bikes floating around..

 

Liquid cooled is what I heard, and the liquid is oil from my understanding. no radiator

 

Uh oh, one more puddle underneath parked Harleys......LOL

 

What good would transferring more heat to the oil do, without a heat exchanger (radiator) to cool it down?

 

The pics I saw it looked like radiators but they are being ambiguous in their press releases so far.