Did You Know?

[Condor]

While watching a segment of American Thunder that covered the Harley History Museum, they covered a bike that had never been released to the public called the Nova. It had a V4 water cooled motor. Very interesting......... Did a little search on Google and came up with THIS

[Squidley]

Pretty intersting

[dynodon]

Wow, A lot of What-if's there, but very interesting. Wonder if Yamaha got wind of that project and the Venture was the result?

[Neil86]

interesting read....keep in mind the Venture evolved from the Vision which was a V Twin.

If Harley was shopping for a factory for the Nova in 1984, the Yamaha Vision 550 and Venture had already been on the market 2 yrs. Isn't the Venture engine said to have been designed by Porsche as well?

Edited September 13, 2008 by Neil86
added Yamaha 550 to Vision model..

[hipshot]

It wouldn't surprise me, if the "NOVA" project was resurrected.

i seem to recall some talk, a while back, about Harley coming out with a water cooled v4, metric, sometime in the near future!

just jt

[Venturous Randy]

interesting read....keep in mind the Venture evolved from the Vision which was a V Twin.

If Harley was shopping for a factory for the Nova in 1984, the Vision and Venture had already been on the market 2 yrs. Isn't the Venture engine said to have been designed by Porsche as well?

 

I have never heard this. Remember, Yamaha has a pretty good engine design team, they designed and built the great engine that was in the SHO Tarsus. The first year the SHO came out, I believe it was one of the quickest cars out. I believe it was even quicker than the 5.0 Mustang GTs.

RandyA

[Gene-b]

The way I see it, Harley did not want to ruin their hard earned reputation by selling a high quality motorcycle. Best to hide it so the rest of the line doesen't look as bad!

 

Gene

[Gearhead]

Isn't the Venture engine said to have been designed by Porsche as well?

 

 

I don't think so. The HD VROD engine was.

 

Jeremy

[Neil86]

Yes knew about the VRod...this story predates the VRod though...in any event just glad someone built the V4 we now enjoy as the Venture/VMAx.

[IH Truck Guy]

While watching a segment of American Thunder that covered the Harley History Museum, they covered a bike that had never been released to the public called the Nova. It had a V4 water cooled motor. Very interesting......... Did a little search on Google and came up with THIS

 

Well,if you guys ever get to Milwaukee,tour the museum and the Nova bike is on display.

It's the only one in the world.....

We saw it when we toured the museum when Hal and Gayle were staying with us..

So I guess it was worth the visit..Pretty cool...

Before that,I never knew it existed....