RMCR - Harley Goes Café?
The Mama Tried Show in February 2026 saw Harley give an exclusive first public 'sneak peek' to a new Café Racer design concept that their back office has been cooking up. Not even a pre-production prototype yet, it is said to have been inspired by the original 1970's Willie G. Davidson designed model.
Designated as the RMCR, Harley Comms Guru Paul James confirmed that, at this stage, it really is just a "concept with no current plans for production". However, it has been all over the SM channels and the response has been almost universally positive.
Seen just a couple of weeks before the RM1250 power plant 'pulled up trees' in the Hands of the Saddlemen Super Hooligan team at Daytona, Bjorn Shuster, design director at Harley, is quoted as saying that "it's a concept-build that the design team put together to celebrate the performance capability that is in our Rev Max platform.
"Looking at our history and our legacy, we really wanted to celebrate the iconography that's in Willie's original XLCR." RMCR stands for 'Revolution Max Café Racer' and the 150 bhp, 1,250 cc Revolution Max V-twin motor is seen here paying homage to Willie G's original 57 hp/67.9 ft-lb torque, dual exhaust XLCR, but with all black-carbon-fiber bodywork.
