Harley-Davidson Big-Twin engines have always tended toward the upper end of their contemporary displacement ranges, which builds up steadily over time. Case in point, the 1,200 cc Shovelhead was considered a large engine during a period that ran from the late 1960s to the early 1980s,

The Harley-Davidson Breakout was perhaps the biggest surprise for me in a number of ways. Thoughts of Orange County Choppers and other fads from the early aughts consume the same space in my mind as the Breakout.