Motorcycle Monday: Harley-Davidson VRXSE Screamin' Eagle Destroyer

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With a name like “Destroyer,” you know that this purpose-built drag bike is a serious racing machine. Even though this bike looks like a heavily modified V-Rod, this is actually the way it came from the factory.

The early 2000s were a great time for Harley-Davidson. They were doing well enough, in fact, that someone (or several someones) in Milwaukee signed off on a truly incredible project.

Harley-Davidson was going to set out to build a factory drag bike capable of sub-10 second quarter mile times. Best of all, they weren’t going to build just one – they were going to build hundreds of them.

Harley-Davidson Custom Vehicle Operations (CVO) ended up with this, the VRXSE Screamin' Eagle Destroyer. It’s powered by a heavily modified 1300cc water-cooled V-twin engine with a stroker crankshaft and high-compression pistons producing 165 horsepower.