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Harley-Davidson Touring Street Glide ST (MY2022) — Tourer
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2022–2023 · Tourer · Buyer's Guide

Touring Street Glide ST (MY2022)

Big Torque, Serious Electronics

The Machine's Character

The Street Glide ST is a factory performance bagger, and the figure that defines it is 127 lb-ft of torque from the 1923 cc, 45° V-twin. That is a big air/oil-cooled engine wearing a large exposed air filter that puts the mechanical sound right at your ear. It carries 103 hp, but torque is the real story. Blacked-out finishes and the batwing fairing make a complete visual statement before you touch it. Build quality is high, the digital cockpit folds navigation in cleanly rather than bolting it on, and the whole package sits at the top of the touring class for sheer presence.

On the road it hides its weight once moving, and the acceleration is more decisive than a bike this heavy and this ornate has any right to feel. It ages where it counts: build quality holds up and resale stays strong, so trade-in time protects you and secondhand asking prices carry a clear premium. Who is it for? Riders who want atmosphere, sound, and long-haul capability in one machine. The honest caveat is that this is not a bike to grow into. At walking pace the mass demands real skill and full attention, and the bottom-end throttle response reads more civil and polished than the raw hardware suggests.

Hard Numbers

Spec sheets don't ride bikes, but they set the baseline.

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Key specifications
Power 103 hp (76 kW)
Torque 127 lb-ft (172 Nm)
Displacement 1923 cc
Engine 45° V-twin
Cooling Air/oil-cooled
Gearbox 6-speed
Final drive Belt
Fork Telescopic
Front brake 300 mm
Front tire 130/60-19
Rear tire 180/55-18
Wheelbase 64.0 in (1625 mm)
Seat height 28.0 in (710 mm)
Wet weight 814 lb (369 kg)
Fuel capacity 6.0 gal (22.7 L)

Equipment check

Chassis

  • Rear Suspension Adjustable Standard
  • Cruise Control Standard

Comfort

  • Heated Grips Optional
  • Luggage System Standard

Connectivity

  • TFT Display Standard
  • Tire Pressure Monitoring (TPMS) Optional

Lighting

  • LED Headlight Standard

Safety

  • ABS Standard
  • Cornering ABS Optional
  • Traction Control Optional

The Voice of Experience

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The test ride

Thumb the starter and the ST introduces itself through that big air filter sitting right by you, answering every throttle input with a close, pressurized mechanical note instead of a distant rumble carried from behind. Down low the V-twin shakes, and the vibration reads as part of the engine's texture rather than a fault to fix. The Street Glide cockpit is laid out sensibly, the fairing cut away enough to give a clean view of the road and instruments you never puzzle over mid-ride. The riding position keeps your arms active and engaged, which suits most roads well. At sustained highway pace you feel wind reach the bars before the fairing fully catches it, and steering goes slightly vague. The seat sits firmer than the segment leads you to expect, fine on short runs and less generous across a full day.

Rated point by point — where it earns its keep

My own 0–100 score for this bike against the class, area by area — the marker on each bar is the class average.

Comfort is where the ST makes you sign for what it gives back. The low-speed heft is the honest one: keep it rolling and the pounds recede, but thread a full-lock turn or inch through a packed lot and you're leaning on real slow-speed control, and nobody eases into that skill on this machine. The saddle is the other tax. It sits harder than the touring badge would lead you to guess, kind enough for a couple of hours and stingy once the miles stack into a full day. Push to a steady highway clip and the airflow finds the grips before the fairing has fully done its job, so the front loses a little of its edge. The stretched-out posture keeps me working the bars happily on most roads, though a genuinely tight bend rewards long arms and leaves shorter ones reaching. What keeps it livable is the clear head-space up front: I read everything at a glance, and the shudder low in the revs settles in as character I'd miss if it left.

What won me over is how unbothered it stays when I ask for the brakes mid-bend. Get greedy with the lever while it's already carving through a corner and it settles down and keeps its arc instead of standing up or twitching. The way it parcels out engine braking, stopping force, and bias as the lean builds means the whole thing feels reachable and known rather than a knife-edge you nurse. On a bike this size, that steadiness under load is what lets me trust the front.

For all its bulk and ornament, the big-inch V-twin spins up with a lightness that catches you off guard, and a roll-on turns brisk in a hurry. The intake sits close and loud, answering each crack of the throttle with a thick mechanical rush from up beside you rather than a rumble fading off the tail. My one honest reservation is down at the very bottom: it reads cleaner and more measured than the raw look promises, still unmistakably Harley, just short of the snap the hardware hints at.

My take on long-term ownership rides on what these do secondhand: they hold their money stubbornly. Start comparing used asking prices and you feel the premium right away, and from the owner's side that stickiness is genuine cover. When the day comes to trade out, the ST hands back a far bigger slice of what you paid than most of what might have sat next to it on the showroom floor.

Order the lean-aware package and the electronics justify themselves. The traction control tracks how far you're leaned and simply stays quiet, no scolding, no obvious grabs, just tidier and more confident drive off the apex. It has the fingerprints of people who actually ride rather than a box ticked for the spec sheet, and on something this weighty that unshowy competence is a big part of what makes me willing to lean it over and mean it.

If one trait carries the ST, this is it. Parked and quiet, everything about it registers as a single, deliberate object, the kind of presence that pulls eyes before you've done a thing. And it refuses to pick a lane: some outings I want it under me purely for the occasion of showing up on something this composed, others I want to point the nose at a distant line on the map and just cover ground. It backs both fully without asking either to give way.

For living with it day to day, the built-in navigation stands out. It reads like it was drawn into the cockpit from the first sketch instead of tacked on afterward, and picking up directions on the move takes no fishing around. A lot of touring rigs hand you a map unit that feels pulled from a parts catalog. The way this one is woven into the dash is a lesson a few rivals in the class would do well to take.

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The Truth on the Street

What follows isn't my verdict. It's the sentiment I've gathered over years of reading long owner threads, trading notes with riders in the paddock, and answering the messages that land in my inbox directly. On the ST the picture holds steady: riders love the muscle and the look, then split over the comfort they traded for it.

Where The ST Wins Riders Over

The engine tops nearly every account. Owners describe huge low-end torque that shoves the bike forward from any speed and turns passing into a non-issue. Almost as often comes the handling, with a consistent surprise: for its weight, the lowered stance and reworked geometry give sharper steering and more clearance than riders expected in a corner. The styling earns equal billing, the blacked-out finishes, dark wheels, and slammed stance reading as a factory hot-rod.

The Comfort Riders Sign For

The complaints gather around comfort. The one raised most is what the ST leaves off: a solo seat, no passenger pegs, no backrest, which riders who travel two-up flag again and again. Several also call the ride firm, even harsh over rough pavement next to standard Touring models. The price comes up often too, since the ST asks a clear premium over a base Street Glide.

Known issues

  • Rear brake system malfunction (recall)

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    Select 2022 models were recalled for a potential rear brake master cylinder issue that could lead to loss of rear braking.

  • M8 lifter noise and potential failure

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    Milwaukee-Eight engines can develop noisy or failed lifters, particularly in early 117ci batches, requiring warranty replacement.

  • Electrical glitches causing limp mode

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    Some owners report intermittent ECU faults that trigger limp-home mode, often traced to loose battery terminals or software bugs.

The Expert Benchmark

Where this Harley-Davidson Touring Street Glide ST pulls ahead of — or falls behind — its rivals on the numbers, and the typical bike in its class on character.

What kind of bike this is — character vs. the class

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The shape of the Harley-Davidson Touring Street Glide ST — numbers and character vs. the average Tourer

Head-to-head: Harley-Davidson Touring Street Glide ST vs. its rivals

The Long-Haul Verdict

Forget spec-sheet bragging. Here's who the Touring Street Glide ST is actually built for.

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