2025 Harley-Davidson Cruiser Range Review – First Ride

I feel that I can relate with the 2025 Harley-Davidson Cruiser line on a subcutaneous level. Once you get past our exquisite, carefully curated exteriors, we’re both filled with a toxic mix of liquid with our complexities hidden away from view, stuffed down so deep that no one would ever think twice to use the word sophisticated to describe us. Unfair? This sextet and I are Americana distilled. Brash and raucous, but genuinely… or generally.. just plain good – and getting better, even! In model year 2018, H-D gave this crew of misfits a fairly substantial overhaul ushering in the current Softail platform while putting the Dyna line out to pasture (announcing its demise on my birthday in 2017, no less). For 2025, the Cruiser line-up gets the updated Milwaukee-Eight 117 cu.-in. V-Twin engine as well as ride modes enhanced by IMU-based rider aids. Aside from that, it’s the same pancake-piston poundin’ fun served up six different ways. Tuck that napkin into your shirt, grab some wet wipes, and forget the cutlery, we’re using our hands to tear into this heaping six-course feast. Let’s go!