Harley's Hayabusa-Hunter

HARLEY'S HAYABUSA-HUNTER

How to empty downtown Denver? Easy: Light the wick on a 2006 VRXSE Screamin' Eagle Destroyer. Loud is the watchword here, the non-street-legal, V-Rod-based dragbike emitting the most raucous blam-blam-blam this side of a World of Outlaws sprinter from its unmuffled, ceramic-coated, 2-into-1 header. Selling for $31,249, the 510-pound Destroyer is a production racer in the same vein as, say, a Yamaha TZ250. Harley claims 165 horsepower and nearly 100 foot-pounds of torque from the bored-and-stroked 1300cc V-Twin. At the strip, expect ETs in the 9-second range. An air-shifter, a two-stage "launch box," a multi stage lockup clutch, a 25 x 7-inch rear slick and a wheehe bar are standard-issue "I'm just happy Harley let A us build it," beamed CVO department head Jim Hofrnann.

Matthew Miles