I never realized just how much people reflect on and appriciate engine sounds. Such an easily overlooked quality of a machine. It is the soul of the vehicle.
I grew up with a lot of these. Depending on the Carb, tuning, cam and pipes makes a big difference. Shovelheads are great. Panheads are great. You left out the good old 1000 ironhead sportster though. Probably the best sounding engine ever from idle to full throttle. Cool video though.
I currently own a pan, genny shovel, s&s evo, and a m8, the shovel or evo are by far the best motors I've ever owned. M8 is the worst to date. I'm eventually going to cave and buy a sporty evo 1200 and make it my daily. 😑
If your a harley rider u wouldn't make that comment evo moters were nothing but a pain in.the.ass..as soon as a.m.f was gone they started improving agiin and yes I own 1
Cast heads and cylinders are bulletproof only the japs have it perfe Ted no one else my harley.is.grate It's old stuborn and runs well maintainance is a 100 percent .must with me
I had a 42 "45" Flat Head back in 56 that I thought sounded good. But you can not beat the sound of a shovel. I had an 84 Iron Head Sportster that sounded good also. And my 99 carbed EVO sounds really good. I have a switch to cut out the VOES switch at idle which makes it real close to a shovel. That cuts the timing back at idle which also drops the rpm about 400.
Shovel and Evo! My first Harley when I was in highschool was an 83 fxr with a S and S Emodel and an Andrews cam boy did it sound sweet!!! Now I'm an old man and ride a M8 that sounds like a BMW!!! LOL
That’s an awesome way to remember the sounds, thanks, galloping horses! So cool! Not quite sure what it is but the sound of just about any Harley just makes my heart so happy. Probably the galloping horses sound.
I'm going with the Panhead...had one as a kid....my Dad converted our Garage into a bedroom and i would slide open the door at night and park it next to my bed...probably wasn't a great idea now that I think of it.
The intro of the engine sound before they showed and sound of the 1903 single cylinder was I believe a V-Twin board track racer that was running on alcohol.
Evolution motor sounds the best and is the most reliable engine HD has ever made. The evolution sporster motor is probably more reliable than the big twin evo motor of those two.
I like cruisers but can't figure out what's up with the UNBEARABLY LOW idle speeds.... It makes it sound so weak. It really gives me the the impression of an engine that barely runs
Yeah, that's been bothering me ever since I've started paying attention to motorcycles. Granted, I'm no engineer, but those low idles just don't sound right.
They all sound just great. Thank you for posting. I may be alone, but that EVO had the most distinctive, potato-potato-potato sound. Came to the same conclusion on another video similar to this one. But they're all legendary in one way or another.
@@Roadking_88 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 rode 110 miles on my Ducati yesterday! Do you even have a motorcycle? Or just a black tshirt wearing, Harley decals in the car window, wanna be poser ?
In my opinion, i think an Evo with drag pipes is best sounding. I remember when the twinkie came out. Not many liked the sound. Now that they have the M8, the twinkie sounds good. M8 has that scissor gear, sounds close to a Honda. This is just my opinion. Sound is subjective and personal taste.
Shovelhead and evolution literally sounds like a galloping horse
*VROOOM! BLAT! drip VROOOM! POP! drip VROOOOM VROOOM drip GUDDA GUDDA GUDDA drip VROOOM! BLORT! drip*
Godd yeah! actually! Now after reading this comment, I'm unable to "unhear" it.
That's the horsepower kickin'
@@berragazzo Yeah. All forty of 'em.
All I herd was the sholvelhead saying Potato potato potato
1:19 Panhead, wow that's beautiful to my ears. Definitely my favorite.
Pan head, and evo my favorite.
Same
0:06 = Single Cylinder (1903 F-Head)
0:21 = V-Twin (1909)
0:37 = F-Head (1911-1929)
0:52 = Flathead (1929-1973)
1:05 = Knucklehead (1936-1947)
1:21 = Panhead (1948-1965)
1:38 = Shovelhead (1966-1984)
1:53 = Evolution (1984-1999)
2:08 = Twin Cam (1999-2017)
2:29 = Milwaukee-Eight (2017- )
2:53 = Livewire (R.I.P)
Livewire almost sounds like an aeroplane 🤣
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I like the livewire. Sounds like theres no engine, just supercharger
Closed my eyes and had tears when I heard my old SHOVEL thumping.
My ears hurt listening to this wreck !!!
@@arthurmchugh5184 shut the fuck up
Sounds like my old Hercules hit and miss. Probably comparable in power and weight.
@@randymarsh-Tegridy420 now that is fuckin funny 😁😁😁😁
The sound for the Evolution is Beautiful !
Shovelhead for the win!
evo close second .
Never knew the Milwaukee 8 sound so bad! I have a 95 Evo myself , the last good one!
Aint nun like an old shovelhead. My dads got an 84' softtail. Music to my ears
I swear my shovel makes the most beautiful sound I've ever heard
Here for the education, Sportbike guy, but that shovlehead definitely caught me attention.
I never realized just how much people reflect on and appriciate engine sounds. Such an easily overlooked quality of a machine. It is the soul of the vehicle.
Knucklehead has such a nice rhythm! What a bop
Twin cam has the meanest sound! Beast!
Gotta love the shovel stumble, awesome
I grew up with a lot of these. Depending on the Carb, tuning, cam and pipes makes a big difference. Shovelheads are great. Panheads are great. You left out the good old 1000 ironhead sportster though. Probably the best sounding engine ever from idle to full throttle. Cool video though.
kid : i want a horse
mom : we have a horse at home
horse at home : 1:55
Ok, now that's pretty funny.
Why get a horse , when you have a freaking harley
Shovelhead the legend!! Haha!!
I have a Shovelhead wideglide, S&S carb with drag pipes... pure music to my ears
Evo was the greatest motor harley ever made ......paired with a 5 speed trans it was unbeatable
You think so? I own one and ride it like a damn dune buggy and it takes it
I currently own a pan, genny shovel, s&s evo, and a m8, the shovel or evo are by far the best motors I've ever owned. M8 is the worst to date. I'm eventually going to cave and buy a sporty evo 1200 and make it my daily. 😑
If your a harley rider u wouldn't make that comment evo moters were nothing but a pain in.the.ass..as soon as a.m.f was gone they started improving agiin and yes I own 1
All..e.v.o moters should of never ben desighned with aluminum only killed the harley strength cast will last aluminum wo nt
Cast heads and cylinders are bulletproof only the japs have it perfe Ted no one else my harley.is.grate
It's old stuborn and runs well maintainance is a 100 percent .must with me
Harley-Davidson Music
🖤🎼🏍💨🔥
They all sound amazing.
😍Knucklehead 😍 shovelhead😍
Merci !
Shovelhead being the best sounding!
Love the way a knucklehead sounds 😎
I have a Low Rider S. Going with 2500rpm on the street it is like meditation. No other bike than Harley can make this sound.
Wow! Just wow! When you see an air cooled 4 stroke pushrod v twin with that sound.
Harley Davidson.
The M8 sound like a machine with pure power.
Shovel and Evo sound awesome to me. Thanks for your video. God bless you.
Even the singles one sounds great
I love harley davidson
Panheads are my favorite. I saw a awesome 1955 Harley Panhead Bobber!
Shovelhead!
Can't wait to get mine running in the chopper I am building.
Milwaukee 8 is just awesome, even being a modern engine HD still can make awesome sounding motors.
Absolutly! I drive a milwaukee eight and its rly beautiful! :)
Shovel: gotta dunt dunt, gotta dunt dunt, gotta dunt dunt, gotta dunt dunt...
46-65 Panhead...Amazing!!!
I like this Harley davidson bike & engine sound
I like this Harley davudson bike & engine sound
Wow what great sounds. But the Evolution motor sounds absolutely Amazing. Everything after that Evo sounds like any other V twin.
They're all just a pleasure symphony!
Shovel head is the best sounding one of all time but I do have a twin cam and it’s a close second
Sweet music for the soul.
I had a 42 "45" Flat Head back in 56 that I thought sounded good. But you can not beat the sound of a shovel. I had an 84 Iron Head Sportster that sounded good also. And my 99 carbed EVO sounds really good. I have a switch to cut out the VOES switch at idle which makes it real close to a shovel. That cuts the timing back at idle which also drops the rpm about 400.
Whose here ? Shovel head & evolution two of my most beloved I believe
King Kong was here listing to this mechanical masterpiece!
Shovel and Evo! My first Harley when I was in highschool was an 83 fxr with a S and S Emodel and an Andrews cam boy did it sound sweet!!! Now I'm an old man and ride a M8 that sounds like a BMW!!! LOL
I love all harley sounds with carbs on it!
I'm with you on this one
@@xmo552 Why?
My favorite sounding engine was the 61 cubic inch overhead valve for 1936 known as the knucklehead I had one of these bikes but it was made in 1937.
Love the sound of all of them.
V Rod: Am I a joke to you?
That's so cool that even back in the day, it still sounded like a Harley
Ironhead Sportster should be here, I can hear one from a mile away because it has its own sound....great video!
No one but shovel are the legend
berry benedick My '48 Springer Panhead now that's a legend. Nothin wrong with a good shovel though
Closing my eyes and listen to the Evolution i must think of monty python and the holy grail.
That was cool! I've had shovels, EVOs, and twin cam, loved them ALL!!!
Nice sound of Harley engine 1966-1984
Remember- you can only hear the "Harley Waltz" best on a Shovelhead.
Awesome sound for the alarm clock.
That’s an awesome way to remember the sounds, thanks, galloping horses! So cool! Not quite sure what it is but the sound of just about any Harley just makes my heart so happy. Probably the galloping horses sound.
I'm going with the Panhead...had one as a kid....my Dad converted our Garage into a bedroom and i would slide open the door at night and park it next to my bed...probably wasn't a great idea now that I think of it.
Nothing compares to the sound of a Harley. Sewing machines are nice and all, but this is what a motorcycle should sound like.
I love the shovel head sound especially when you have a really good Andrews cam... and strait drag pipes...badass...
Plus d'un siècle d histoire d'un moteur de moto de légende, pour ma part c'est le twin Cam. Merci beaucoup 👍👍👍👍✌
P.S. Shovelheads sound awesome at 5,000 rpm cruisin down the road in high gear.
That’s like 1500 rpm over the redline though.
@mad ass 5,000 freedom rotations a minute
Don't know about you guys but on my 95 Evo my rev limiter is set at 5300 and that's conservative could go to 55!
neil pence
Freedom rotations? Is that when the piston comes breaking free?
The intro of the engine sound before they showed and sound of the 1903 single cylinder was I believe a V-Twin board track racer that was running on alcohol.
Love my Shovels but the sound of those Pans are by far the best...
Panhead seems to be what I hear when I watch Sons of Anarchy and Mayans MC. 😎
good job!
1200shovel 好き
panheadはマジでnice sound!!アクセル開いた直後がカッコ良すぎ!!
Panhead 1948-1965 Super thumping 👌💪
Evolution motor sounds the best and is the most reliable engine HD has ever made. The evolution sporster motor is probably more reliable than the big twin evo motor of those two.
The 1909 v twin already had that famous sound!
Awesome compilation, thanks! From all audio-moto-philes in the world! :)
Personally I'd vote for Panhead. Pure badassery.
Panhead ever ! ❤️ You dont need more of that
Milwaukee 8 sounds so good. Love mine, and intake , 2-1 and tune really make it a beautiful sound and feel
All sounded like an old hit-and-miss engine churning ice cream at a farm days fair.
Omg please do more of such engine evolution videos
I love Knucklehead 💓
Shovelhead Troublehead, Pan, Evo, Twin Cam 👌🏼👌🏼
Herrlich 👏🏻 Danke für den Geschichtsunterricht 😃
A straight piped pan is my favorite.
Super danke für das Video hat großen Spaß gemacht.
Good video bro, good reminder of those beautiful engines, nice intro
Evolution 😎👊🏻
I enjoyed this very much. You missed the ww2 military horizontal twin. Thanks. The evo is my fave.
They all sound like they’re going to stall out
Lol. Idles set WAAAYY too low, but that's the thing with HD! I personally like my idle a tad higher!
I like cruisers but can't figure out what's up with the UNBEARABLY LOW idle speeds.... It makes it sound so weak. It really gives me the the impression of an engine that barely runs
@Alex Eidenier ahaaa so there is a mechanical reason for the low idle speed. Thanks for the explanation!
Yeah, that's been bothering me ever since I've started paying attention to motorcycles. Granted, I'm no engineer, but those low idles just don't sound right.
@@james44mag31 I will just get a Guzzi nuovo Falcone that is a slow idling engine
as far as bikes go, nothing sounds as sweet as a tuned Shovelhead.
i had an evo one of the first oooo i love that sound so much😍🥰
This was awesome...thank you! They all sound great!🤓whole thing just made me smile!
Panheads are #1
Gotta love that Shovelhead music
They all sound just great. Thank you for posting. I may be alone, but that EVO had the most distinctive, potato-potato-potato sound. Came to the same conclusion on another video similar to this one. But they're all legendary in one way or another.
Panhead no contest for sound 👌🏻
This is legend in the form of SOUND!
Yeah. Legendary.
*_VROOOM! VROOOM! BLAT! drip GUDDA GUDDA GUDDA drip GUDDA GUDDA GUDDA VROOM! BLAT! POP! drip GUDDA GUDDA GUDDA drip VROOOM! BLORT! BLAT! drip GUDDA GUDDA GUDDA WHEEZE drip VROOM! VROOM! drip GUDDA GUDDA GUDDA drip GUDDA GUDDA GUDDA VROOM! BLAT! POP! drip GUDDA GUDDA GUDDA drip VROOOM! BLORT! BLAT! drip GUDDA GUDDA GUDDA WHEEZE drip VROOM! VROOM! drip BLAT! drip_*
Type if exhaust makes a huge difference as well. Would’ve been cool to see the whole bike and setup.
missed the best motor of all man, the shovel pan from 1966 till 69
1. Panhead
2. F-head
3. Evolution (you could dance on that beat,gorgeous.)
This helped me with my anxiety attack thank you so much
The Sound of Legend !!!!!!
The sound of disturbing the peace!!! Fuckin chrome air compressors!!
@@arthurmchugh5184 There's always gotta be a troll.
@@Roadking_88 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 rode 110 miles on my Ducati yesterday! Do you even have a motorcycle? Or just a black tshirt wearing, Harley decals in the car window, wanna be poser ?
@@arthurmchugh5184= Hurt feelings , triggered whiner all on your own ... exposed !
@@RichieD088 saw the Harley, black and chrome!!! HOW ORIGINAL!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It’s all about the Shovelhead hands down...😎
Ironheads have an iconic sound, I wish they were included in the video
In my opinion, i think an Evo with drag pipes is best sounding. I remember when the twinkie came out. Not many liked the sound. Now that they have the M8, the twinkie sounds good. M8 has that scissor gear, sounds close to a Honda. This is just my opinion. Sound is subjective and personal taste.
Shovel lope -
Potato- potato -
Heck yeah-
🤠❤️👍🏻
You mean (Meat Potatoe)
Awesome thank you 👍🇺🇸
The Vermonter
The music for my ears - shovelhead and evolution
LOVE the SHOVELHEAD!
The flat head is my all time favorite v twin.
Flathead didn't leak that much from my experience.
Shovelhead. '66 - forever......
-Joe
U forgot to mention the live wire engine it sounds like zzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
F head
@@andisuryowinarto5277 wellllll it does !!!! Piss off !!😀😀😀