Harley stopped using carburetors on all their bikes after 2006; now they're all fuel injected. But the last type of carb used was the Keihin CV (constant velocity) which was based on the British Amal slide carb from the Forties.
Before that they used a Keihin butterfly carb, and before that a Bendix-Zenith, and before that a Tillotson, and before that a Linkert, and before that a Schebler and the very first Harley carbs were made by the founders themselves, with the help of Ole Evinrude of outboard motor fame.
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