
[UPDATE, October 13, 2023: Harley-Davidson has since informed us that the X500 was and is intended for release in Asian markets, and is not coming to the US.
The fact that an official manual was published by Harley-Davidson and is available on its website, with verbiage related to US emissions and instructions for VIN decoding, still remains. It's not clear why it's there; all we can say for certain is that it exists.]