The Super Glide Is Back — and the Deadwood Might Be the Smartest Bike Harley's Built in Years

Harley just dropped two bikes that have the whole cruiser world talking, and neither one is a six-figure CVO or a limited-run museum piece priced like one. The 2026 Super Glide and the new Deadwood are something we haven't seen from Milwaukee in a long time: bikes built to be ridden, wrenched on, and made your own.

The Super Glide rides again

If you know your Harley history, you know the name. In 1971, Willie G. Davidson bolted a Sportster front end onto a Big Twin frame, painted it red, white, and blue, and created the factory custom. That bike — the original FX Super Glide — is the reason the Low Rider, the Fat Boy, and half the bikes in your garage exist.

Fifty-five years later, it's back. The 2026 Super Glide is a Softail wearing White Onyx Pearl with red and blue striping — a straight tribute to the original "Sparkling America" livery, timed for the 250th birthday of the USA. Power comes from the Milwaukee-Eight 117 Classic: 1,923cc, 98 hp, and 120 lb-ft of torque hitting at just 2,500 rpm. It carries a 5-gallon teardrop tank (a big step up from the Street Bob it shares bones with), a 26.2-inch seat, and 656 pounds at the curb.

Here's the part worth paying attention to: it's a serialized run of 2,500 bikes, numbered right on the tank console — and it stickers at $15,999. That's a grand over a base Street Bob. Not long ago, Harley was tacking $2,500 or more onto its heritage-themed Icon models. This one's collectible without the collector tax.

Deadwood: the factory bobber

The Deadwood goes the other direction — no chrome celebration, just Denim Black on nearly everything. Think of it as a Heritage Classic stripped down the way returning GIs stripped their surplus Harleys after WWII: bags gone, brightwork blacked out, wire-spoke wheels, floorboards, a shorty windshield, and a tank-mounted speedo. The only real flash is the orange bar-and-shield on the tank and some Western-style graphics — a nod to Deadwood, South Dakota, just down the road from Sturgis.

Same Milwaukee-Eight 117 Classic underneath, same 120 lb-ft of grunt, with modern guts hiding under the vintage skin: ride modes, cornering ABS, traction control, even USB-C. At $17,999, it comes in two grand under the Heritage Classic it's based on. You lose the bags and windscreen — but if you're buying a bobber, you didn't want them anyway.

Why this actually matters

New CEO Artie Starrs calls the strategy "Back to the Bricks," and these two bikes are what it looks like in metal. Instead of loading up variants and charging a premium, Harley's putting out blank-canvas motorcycles at honest prices and betting you'll build the rest yourself — the way it's always worked best. Dealers are reportedly fired up, and bikes are moving at sticker.

One's chrome and stars-and-stripes, one's blacked-out and bare-knuckle. Both are the same idea: a solid platform, a fair price, and the rest is up to you.

So which one's parked in your dream garage — the Super Glide or the Deadwood? Sound off below.