Win a 2025 Harley-Davidson CVO Road Glide or $20,000 Cash

What you're looking at

A 2025 Harley-Davidson CVO Road Glide — FLTRXSE in Harley parlance — finished in Blue Streak, the deep cobalt candy tri-tone with black and silver diagonal color blocking, red accent graphics and chrome trim. The Colorado Fallen Hero Foundation describes it as brand new; no odometer figure is published.

Underneath is the Milwaukee-Eight VVT 121, Harley's 1,977cc variable-valve-timing big twin, rated by the factory at 115 horsepower at 4,500 rpm and 139 lb-ft of torque at 3,000 rpm, running through a six-speed. It is the sharknose-fairing generation of Road Glide, with a 12.3-inch color touchscreen filling the dash, cast wheels and Brembo brakes.

Why it matters

CVO stands for Custom Vehicle Operations, Harley's own low-volume build shop, and it exists to get the newest hardware to market first. The 121 is the biggest engine the company puts in a production tourer, and the CVO Road Glide is one of the very few bikes that gets it — the standard Road Glide makes do with a smaller Milwaukee-Eight. The VVT heads and the liquid-cooled top end are what let it hold 139 lb-ft that low in the rev range, and it wants premium fuel to do it.

The honest part: CVO money does not hold. Titled 2025 CVO Road Glides are being advertised in the high $30,000s right now with 1,000 to 3,300 miles showing, against a $45,999 base sticker — a genuinely fast slide for a one-year-old bike. That matters less when you didn't pay for it, but it is the reason the $20,000 cash alternative deserves a hard look rather than a reflexive no. It is also a heavy, long, full-dress tourer; if the last bike you rode was a Sportster, budget some time before you take it down a canyon road.

The fine print worth knowing

The prize is conditional, and the marketing doesn't say so. The official rules read: "Subject to a minimum of $100,000 in total donation proceeds received during the Sweepstakes Entry Period... In the event less than $100,000 in total donation proceeds are received... Sponsor will award 25% of the total donation proceeds to the qualified selected winner." In plain numbers: if the campaign raises $80,000, the winner receives $20,000 and no motorcycle. If it raises $60,000, the winner receives $15,000. The bike is only on the table once the $100,000 line is crossed. Revenue floors like this are standard on nonprofit sweepstakes platforms — they keep a charity from paying out a $52,000 prize on a campaign that raised less than the prize cost — but almost no promotional page carries one, and this one doesn't.

The value figures live in the rules, not the ad. The rules state the "Prize is either a 2025 Harley Davidson CVO Road Glide (approximate value of $52,000) or $20,000 in cash." The campaign page names the $20,000 cash option but never prints the bike's value, so the cash route is worth roughly 38 cents on the dollar against the motorcycle.

Washington State is out. The eligibility clause excludes Washington residents outright, along with OFAC-sanctioned countries and anyone on the Treasury SDN list. Entrants must be 18 or the age of majority where they live, whichever is older.

Substitution and taxes. The sponsor "reserves the right to substitute a Prize, in whole or in part, for one of equal or greater value," and "all federal, state, provincial, municipal, and local taxes are solely the responsibility of Prize winner." Win the bike and you owe income tax on a $52,000 prize with no cash attached to pay it — which is the practical argument for the cash option, not just the resale math.

Entry mechanics. Donation tiers start at $25 for 18 entries and scale to $2,000 for 4,000 entries. The free route is spelled out in the rules and awards 18 entries — exactly what the lowest paid tier buys — via an online request form that generates a mailer you print and post to the sweepstakes' Boulder, Colorado address. Entries close at 11:59 PM MST on December 23, 2026, and the drawing is held on or about 1:00 PM MST on December 31, 2026 at Sun Harley-Davidson in Thornton, Colorado. The sponsor is the Colorado Fallen Hero Foundation, EIN 82-2417033. Short-window bonus prizes have run alongside the main drawing — a YETI Roadie 32 cooler for entries placed between September 10 and 19, 2026, with the winners named on the campaign page.