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Harley-davidson Softail Rocker
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Harley-davidson Softail Rocker

The Harley-davidson Softail Rocker has a top speed of 175 km/h (estimated), produces 68 hp and weighs 318 kg. Motoryk rates it 6.5/10.

Harley-Davidson ์†Œํ”„ํ…Œ์ผ ๋กœ์ปค๋Š” ์†Œํ”„ํ…Œ์ผ ์ œํ’ˆ๊ตฐ์— ์†ํ•ด 2008๋…„ ๋ชจ๋ธ ์—ฐ๋„์— ์ถœ์‹œ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋„“์€ ๋ฆฌ์–ด ํƒ€์ด์–ด์™€ ๋กœ์šฐ ์Šฌ๋ ์ด ํŠน์ง•์ธ ํด๋ž˜์‹ํ•œ ์ดˆํผ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ ์˜คํ† ๋ฐ”์ด์˜ ์™ธ๊ด€์„ ์—ฐ์ƒ์‹œํ‚ค๋„๋ก ์„ค๊ณ„๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.ํ‘œ์ค€ํ˜• Rocker์™€ Rocker C์˜ ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋ฒ„์ „์œผ๋กœ ์ œ๊ณต๋˜์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด ๋ชจ๋ธ์€ ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•œ ๋’ท๋ฐ”ํ€ด์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋งž์ถคํ™”๋œ ์™ธ๊ด€์„ ํŠน์ง•์œผ๋กœ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.์ด ๋ชจ๋ธ์€ 2011๋…„ ๋ชจ๋ธ ์—ฐ๋„ ์ดํ›„ ๋‹จ์ข…๋˜์–ด ์†Œํ”„ํ…Œ์ผ ๋ผ์ธ์—…์— ์ƒ๋Œ€์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ˆ˜๋ช…์ด ์งง์•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์‹œ๊ฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ฐจ๋ณ„ํ™”๋œ ์ œํ’ˆ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

68 hp

ํŒŒ์›Œ

113 Nm

ํ† ํฌ

318 kg

๋ฌด๊ฒŒ

175 km/h (estimated)

ํƒ‘ ์Šคํ”ผ๋“œ

6.5 L/100km (approx. 15.4 km/L) โ€” estimated real-world average

์—ฐ๋ฃŒ

๋ฒŒ๊ฑฐ๋ฒ—์€

๋ฐ”๋””

๐Ÿ”ง Service Schedule & Parts

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Softail Rocker / Rocker C (FXCW/FXCWC)
Service item Every Typical cost Parts
๐Ÿ›ข๏ธ Engine oil + oil filter 8,000 km / 5,000 mi or 12 mo $60-120 ๐Ÿ›ข๏ธ Buy โ†’   โš™๏ธ Buy โ†’
๐ŸŒฌ๏ธ Air filter 16,000 km / 10,000 mi โ€” ๐ŸŒฌ๏ธ Buy โ†’
โšก Spark plugs 16,000 km / 10,000 mi โ€” โšก Buy โ†’
๐Ÿ”ง Valve clearance check 24,000 km / 15,000 mi $250-500
๐Ÿ›‘ Brake pads 15000-25000 km $40-80 ๐Ÿ›‘ Buy โ†’
๐Ÿ’ง Brake fluid 24,000 km / 15,000 mi or 2 yr โ€”
๐Ÿ›ž Tires 15000-25000 km $250-450 ๐Ÿ›ž Buy โ†’
๐Ÿ”ฉ Major service 24,000 km / 15,000 mi $400-800
๐Ÿ’ฐ Annual upkeep ~$400-800 ๐Ÿ”ฉ Reliability 7/10 Belt-drive cruiser with no coolant system; Twin Cam 96 air-cooled engine requires strict oil change intervals and cam tensioner inspection to prevent costly engine damage.

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Twin Cam 96 Engine

The Softail Rocker came equipped with Harley's Twin Cam 96 engine, known for strong torque but watch for cam chain tensioner wear โ€” a common issue on this generation that can become costly if ignored.

๐Ÿ“‰

Limited Production Run

The Rocker was only produced from 2008 to 2011, making it a relatively rare model. Its short production window and distinctive chopper-inspired styling help maintain collector interest and steady resale value.

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Hidden Rear Suspension

The Rocker features Harley's signature hidden monoshock rear suspension system, giving it a true hardtail look with actual ride comfort โ€” a unique selling point that sets it apart from rigid-frame choppers.

์—ฐ๋„๋ณ„ ์„ธ๋Œ€ ๋ฐ ์‚ฌ์–‘

2008โ€“2011 Gen 1

์˜ค๋ฆฌ์ง€๋„ ์†Œํ”„ํ…Œ์ผ ๋กœ์ปค๋Š” 96ci ํŠธ์œˆ ์บ , ๋กœ์šฐ ์Šฌ๋ง ํ•˜๋“œํ…Œ์ผ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ ํ”„๋ ˆ์ž„, ์™€์ด๋“œ ๋ฆฌ์–ด ํƒ€์ด์–ด์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ถœ์‹œ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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7.2/10

"๊ธธ์„ ์žƒ์œผ๋ฉด ๋ฒŒ์„ ์ฃผ๋Š” ๋ฉ‹์ง„ ๋ธ”๋Ÿฌ๋ฐ”๋“œ ํฌ๋ฃจ์ €."

Rocker๋Š” Harley๊ฐ€ ์ง€๋‚œ 10๋…„๊ฐ„ ์ œ์ž‘ํ•œ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ฐจ๋Ÿ‰๋ณด๋‹ค ๋งˆ์ผ๋‹น ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํšŒ์ „์‹œํ‚ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 240์„น์…˜์˜ ๋„“์€ ๋ฆฌ์–ด ํƒ€์ด์–ด์™€ ํŽœ๋”๊ฐ€ ์—†๋Š” ํ•˜๋“œํ…Œ์ผ ์Šคํƒ ์Šค๋Š” ์žก์ง€ ์ดฌ์˜์—์„œ ๋‚˜์˜จ ์ปค์Šคํ…€ ๋ชจ๋ธ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ณด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.Twin Cam 96B๋Š” ๊ณตํšŒ์ „ ์ƒํƒœ์—์„œ ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ์œ„๋ ฅ์„ ๋ฐœํœ˜ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ง์„  2์ฐจ์„ ์—์„œ๋Š” ์‹œ์† 65๋งˆ์ผ๋กœ ์ฃผํ–‰ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด ์ •๋ง ์ž˜ ์ •๋ˆ๋˜๊ณ  ์šฉ๋„๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋А๊ปด์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ 648mm์˜ ์‹œํŠธ ๋†’์ด๋Š” ๋†€๋ผ์šธ ์ •๋„๋กœ ํŽธ์•ˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ธ์ฒด๊ณตํ•™์  ์„ค๊ณ„ ๋•๋ถ„์— ๋ผ์ด๋”ฉ ์ž์„ธ๊ฐ€ ํ•œ๊ณณ์— ๊ณ ์ •๋˜๊ณ  ๋‘ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚˜๋ฉด ํ—ˆ๋ฆฌ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด ๋ถˆํŽธํ•ด์ง€๊ธฐ ๋งˆ๋ จ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.ํŒํƒ€์ง€๋Š” ์ฝ”๋„ˆ์—์„œ ๋์ด ๋‚ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๋ฉด ๊ฐ„๊ทน์€ ์›ƒ๊ธฐ๊ณ , ๋„“์€ ๋ฆฌ์–ด ํƒ€์ด์–ด๋Š” ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฐ”๊พธ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ง‰์•„์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 317kg์˜ ๋กœ์šฐ ์Šฌ๋ ์•„์ด์–ธ์„ ๋ณด๋ฉด ์ด ๊ธฐ๊ณ„๋Š” ํ˜‘๊ณก ์ปค๋น™์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ํฌ์ฆˆ๋ฅผ ์ทจํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์„ค๊ณ„๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ƒ๊ธฐ์‹œ์ผœ ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์žฅ์ 

+์ •๋ง ์ž…์ด ๋–ก ๋ฒŒ์–ด์ง€๋Š” ํŒฉํ† ๋ฆฌ ์ปค์Šคํ…€ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ๋ง
+ํ† ํฌ๊ฐ€ ํ’๋ถ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‹ค๋ฃจ๊ธฐ ์‰ฌ์šด 96ci ๋ชจํ„ฐ
+๋งค์šฐ ๋‚ฎ์€ ์‹œํŠธ ๋†’์ด
+๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์ง์„  ๊ณ ์†๋„๋กœ ์ž…์ง€

๋‹จ์ 

โˆ’๊ทธ๋ผ์šด๋“œ ํด๋ฆฌ์–ด๋Ÿฐ์Šค๋Š” ๋‹นํ˜น์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šธ ์ •๋„๋กœ ์ œํ•œ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
โˆ’๋„“์€ ๋ฆฌ์–ด ํƒ€์ด์–ด๋Š” ์ฝ”๋„ˆ๋ง ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ์„ ๋–จ์–ด๋œจ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค
โˆ’์žฅ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ผ์ด๋”ฉ์— ์ œ๊ฒฉ์ธ ๋ผ์ด๋” ํŠธ๋ผ์ด์•ต๊ธ€
โˆ’์ œํ•œ๋œ ์‹ค์šฉ์„ฑ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ํ”„๋ฆฌ๋ฏธ์—„ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ
์ตœ์  ๋Œ€์ƒ: ์Šฌ๋กœ์šฐ ๋งˆ์ผ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ์— ์ง‘์ฐฉํ•˜๋Š” ์–ด๋ฐ˜ ํฌ๋ฃจ์ € ๊ฑด๋„ˆ๋›ฐ๊ธฐ: ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ๊ตฌ๋ถˆ๊ตฌ๋ถˆํ•œ ๊ธธ์„ ํƒ€์‹œ์ž–์•„์š”

์ค‘๊ณ  ๊ตฌ๋งค์ž ๋ฆฌ๋ทฐ

6.5/10
์ตœ์  ๋Œ€์ƒ
Style-focused riders doing shorter weekend cruises

"A stylish oddball that rewards patient buyers who inspect carefully."

$8,000-$13,500 used

The Rocker is one of Harley's more interesting Softail experiments โ€” that 240mm rear tire and slammed, stretched stance genuinely turns heads, and it rides better than it looks like it should. The TC96 engine pulls decently hard in the midrange, and the bobber-style aesthetics feel authentic rather than costume-party fake. If you're buying used, check the front forks obsessively โ€” that forward-set geometry makes them take a beating, and replacement isn't cheap. Also inspect the rear fender mounting points; they crack. The ergonomics are a love-or-hate situation. Taller riders will suffer on anything beyond a 90-minute run. The low seat sounds great until mile 150 on a highway slab. Brakes are adequate at best โ€” this was never Harley's strong suit in this era. Budget for a brake upgrade if you're doing real miles. Used prices have softened considerably since production ended, which makes them genuinely decent value right now. Just get a pre-purchase inspection and check service history โ€” these bikes attract owners who prioritize looks over maintenance.

์žฅ์ 
๋‹จ์ 
๊ฑด๋„ˆ๋›ฐ๊ธฐ: You tour long distances or prioritize practicality

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Curated picks for the Harley-davidson Softail Rocker โ€” owned, ridden, recommended.

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์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ๋ฌธ์ œ

๐Ÿ”ฅ 2 CRITICAL
๐Ÿ”ฅPrimary chain tensioner wear and failure SERIOUS

Listen for rattling on cold start near primary cover

Fix cost: $300-$600
๐Ÿ”ฅCam chain tensioner shoe deterioration SERIOUS

Check service records, any ticking noise at idle

Fix cost: $400-$900
โš ๏ธNeck bearing wear from low-slung geometry MODERATE

Rock forks forward and back feeling for notchiness

Fix cost: $150-$350
๐Ÿ’กRear fender and custom bodywork cracks MINOR

Inspect all custom bodywork joints and mounting points

Fix cost: $200-$800

โœ…์‚ฌ์ „ ๊ตฌ๋งค ์ฒดํฌ๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ

โ˜Pull cam cover, inspect tensioner shoes visually
โ˜Start cold, listen for primary chain rattle
โ˜Check for oil leaks around rocker boxes
โ˜Verify all custom parts are properly mounted

Decent if maintained, cam tensioner is dealbreaker

Full Specifications

Engine Power 68 hp @ 5,000 rpm (estimated, based on Twin Cam 96B output)
Torque 113 Nm @ 3,000 rpm
Top Speed 175 km/h (estimated)
Weight 318 kg (wet/curb weight)
Fuel Consumption 6.5 L/100km (approx. 15.4 km/L) โ€” estimated real-world average
Type Cruiser
Fairing No Fairing (Naked)

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๐Ÿ’ฌ "A stylish oddball that rewards patient buyers who inspect carefully."

Frequently Asked Questions

What are common problems with the Harley-davidson Softail Rocker? +

Primary chain tensioner wear and failure: Listen for rattling on cold start near primary cover (serious) | Cam chain tensioner shoe deterioration: Check service records, any ticking noise at idle (serious) | Neck bearing wear from low-slung geometry: Rock forks forward and back feeling for notchiness (moderate)

Is the Harley-davidson Softail Rocker a good motorcycle? +

A stylish oddball that rewards patient buyers who inspect carefully. Rating: 6.5/10. Best for: Style-focused riders doing shorter weekend cruises. Avoid if: You tour long distances or prioritize practicality.

What is the horsepower of the Harley-davidson Softail Rocker? +

The Harley-davidson Softail Rocker produces 68 hp @ 5,000 rpm (estimated, based on Twin Cam 96B output), with 113 Nm @ 3,000 rpm of torque. Top speed: 175 km/h (estimated).

Is the Harley-davidson Softail Rocker good for beginners? +

Yes โ€” the Harley-davidson Softail Rocker is a reasonable choice for new riders (68 hp is manageable), weighing 318 kg. Style-focused riders doing shorter weekend cruises

Is the Harley-davidson Softail Rocker reliable? +

Owners report 2 critical issues to watch for on the Harley-davidson Softail Rocker, notably: Primary chain tensioner wear and failure (Listen for rattling on cold start near primary cover). Buy with a pre-purchase inspection.

Is the Harley-davidson Softail Rocker good for daily use? +

Style-focused riders doing shorter weekend cruises Fuel: 6.5 L/100km (approx. 15.4 km/L) โ€” estimated real-world average.

How fast is the Harley-davidson Softail Rocker? +

The Harley-davidson Softail Rocker reaches a top speed of 175 km/h (estimated), producing 68 hp at 318 kg curb weight. Real-world performance depends on rider weight, gearing, and road conditions.

What gear should I buy for a Harley-davidson Softail Rocker? +

Motoryk has curated a Top 10 gear list specifically for the Harley-davidson Softail Rocker, covering engine oil, tires, chain, battery, and brake pads โ€” see motoryk.com/bikes/harley-davidson/softail-rocker/top10. Each pick is matched to this bike's spec.