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WTF is Harley Davidson thinking dropping the whole dyna model !!!

  • Bozza
    Bozza
    6 years ago
    Whats your thoughts I'm pretty pissed off... 
    Fat Bob softail wtf !!! looks like a piece of shit!
    Looks like dyna owners may have a very sort after bike.
    v rod, dyna gone wtf Harley!
  • Baloffski
    Baloffski
    6 years ago
    Bloody hell Bozzman, didn't know that.
    I was seriously thinking of "downsizing" to a Dyna, the latest, am going to do some homework now.... 
    I do love the Fat Bob baby with the works, as getting too old to pickup a Tourer in Aussie dirt.
  • Smokey61
    Smokey61
    6 years ago

    The Softail as we knew it is gone too. It's all new. The point of the Dyna was to provide a rubber mounted engine for smoothness. With twin counterbalancers, the rubber mounting isn't needed anymore. The 'Softail' frame is all new and I understand it's to improve handling and cornering clearance, as well as being lighter, stiffer, and cheaper to manufacture. My only complaint is that the lines of the swingarm no longer echoes the old rigid frame big twins, but that they now look like the rear of a WLA frame.

    The pipes are mounted higher which makes it look like a Vulcan, Shadow, Dragstar, etc. All this could be excusable except in most cases all this uglification has increased lean angles by about one degree on either side. One shitty little degree.
  • Kingchops
    Kingchops
    6 years ago
    Dyna dies, but more importantly Sportster lives!
  • tussuck
    tussuck
    6 years ago
    Dyna sucked the big one anyway as the FXR was the last of the lineage (I may be a little biased though!)
  • Bonkerz
    Bonkerz
    6 years ago
    Now comes the challenge of keeping my Streetbob on the road for the rest of my life.  Hopefully this move saves HarleyD a few bucks so they can shove that up their arse too.
  • Kingchops
    Kingchops
    6 years ago
    Paint schemes on the 2018 Sportster Custom follow the fugly theme for this year though.

  • graeme
    graeme
    6 years ago
    That new lowrider is not a lowrider it should not be called that this is not good 
  • graeme
    graeme
    6 years ago
    Just because they put lowrider speedo/ tachometer on it doesn't make it a lowrider if you go back to the shovel lowriders they have still looked similar even last years model I'm glad I don't have to buy another lowrider I will keep my 2001
  • WideglidingNZ
    WideglidingNZ
    6 years ago
    I bet the HD aftermarket part companies are rubbing their hands together, as like me new bike buyers(especially dyna) will be spending up on parts to modify and retain their existing bikes rather than buying the new ugly ones 
  • Krash Kinkade
    Krash Kinkade
    6 years ago
    well sorry to hear this, but, I think the last really nice looking motor Harley made was the panhead, I look more at motors myself.
    but I guess they have to move ahead pass all the new emission standards. about only thing we can be thankful for is still not water cooled so still simple , sort of. but too many valves.
  • graeme
    graeme
    6 years ago
    Totally agree have the last Ssv redline and will be keeping my dyna
  • Daggs
    Daggs
    6 years ago
    Change the bikes, models, frames... I don't care as I'll be keeping the one I have forever... But give them new names for fucks sake, don't call them by the same name when they are something completely different !!
  • Big Steve
    Big Steve
    6 years ago

    If you're loyal to the brand/mark you'll succumb/assimilate eventually. Or you'll buy a tourer.

    I think its more about getting new riders. I vehemently objected to buying a BMW until they brought out the water boxer motor and one ride sold me.

  • Bozza
    Bozza
    6 years ago
  • Methuselah
    Methuselah
    6 years ago
    Farken ugly jacked up looking things. Is it my imagination or does the Street Bob have narrowglide forks? The problem is the yanks with Dyna's jack them right up in the air and shorten the rear guards so they can run around all day popping mono's. All HD is doing is following the market trend in the U.S. because that's where the bulk of the sales are. I'm certainly not going to rush out and buy one, I love my Dyna too much.