How Fast Is The Harley-Davidson X440? A Look At Its Top Speed & Acceleration

By Pune Media On Dec 17, 2024 29

Harley-Davidson is perhaps the first name that comes to the minds of the average U.S. citizen when thinking of American motorcycles and riding culture. The brand, one of the oldest motorcycling brands on the planet, has focused on the U.S. market while maintaining smaller operations overseas for most of its existence.

There’s no denying that Harley-Davidson is popular in the U.S., but the company’s sales numbers have been down for the past several years. Harley’s U.S. sales have fallen from 125,960 units in 2019 to 98,468 units in 2023, a considerable 21% decline over a four-year period. One of the ways by which older, traditional motorcycle companies have been trying to offset their sales drop in important markets was by entering newer, unexplored markets. Entering these markets, however, also means customizing products that appeal to the target audience in those markets.

Given that Harley-Davidson understands that its gas-guzzling, high-capacity cruisers will always have a limited market outside of the U.S., the company joined up with Hero Motorcycles, one of the largest motorcycle manufacturers in India, to develop a new, low-cost Harley-Davidson motorcycle, aimed exclusively at emerging markets. The first product to come out of this collaboration is what we know now as the Harley-Davidson X440. This motorcycle is unlike any Harley-Davidson product sold in the U.S. and features a small capacity (440 cc), single-cylinder, air-cooled engine that makes a little over 27 hp of power.

The Harley-Davidson X-440 is primarily designed to compete against similarly priced, small-capacity offerings from the likes of Royal Enfield and Triumph. As a result, the X440’s top speed and acceleration figures — while not earth-shattering — are apt for a motorcycle in its class.

How fast is the Harley-Davidson X-440?

At just under 30 horses, the Harley Davidson slots itself between the Royal Enfield Classic 350 (20 hp) and the new Triumph Speed 400 (40 hp) in terms of performance. While the X-440 loses out to the Speed 400 in sheer horsepower, it somewhat makes up for it with its torque figures of 28 lb-ft, which is almost the same as that of the baby Triumph. Harley Davidson hasn’t revealed performance numbers on the specs page for the X-440, but it delivered a 0-100 km/hr (0 -60 mph) time of 9.63 seconds in a performance test conducted by Autocar India. While these are unexciting numbers when viewed from an American perspective, it’s worth noting that the Royal Enfield Classic 350 is more than six seconds slower than the X-440 to reach the same landmark.

We also came across a video posted by Indian YouTuber “The UP46 Rider,” who takes his X440 on an Indian freeway, where he hits a top speed of 145 km/hr (90 mph). The interesting thing about this video is that he also calculated the speed using GPS, which showed a true speed of 137 km/hr (85 mph). In another video uploaded by Solo Traveler, his Harley-Davidson X-440 hit an even higher top speed of 150 km/hr (93 mph). On this occasion, however, the motorcycle was on a slight downward gradient.

Given the circumstances, we can say with relative confidence that the Harley Davidson X-440 can comfortably cruise at 60 mph all day long while also being capable of short speed bursts that would let it occasionally cross the 90-mph barrier.

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