Description

The Harley Davidson Penster. Harley-Davidson asked automobile hot rodding legend John Buttera to build the original prototype (the maroon one pictured here) in 1998. Codenamed the “Penster”, it had a tilting front end similar to the Piaggio MP3.

Harley-Davidson filed a patent for the leaning front end which uses hydraulic actuators to tilt the trike and return it to a vertical position.

Harley-Davidson spent years refining Buttera’s design, and in 2006, they produced the orange version pictured here.

The updated version has a wider stance than the original. The orange version also has vertically aligned shocks that leaned along with the front wheels instead of the horizontally-positioned suspension on Buttera’s original concept. The seat is also noticeably higher on the newer version.


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Click here for Harry Kraemer's Harley Davidson 3 wheeler page on his Wheels & Wings site