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on: 03-01-2015
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Harley-Davidson FLD Switchback... what a weird road that led to this bike...
Until 1970, Harley had two types of V-twin motorcycles. The big FL "Glide" cruisers, and the smaller XL "Sportsters."
For a long time, customizers had been creating choppers by taking the big FL frame and mating it to the nimbler XL front-fork...
In 1971, Willie G. Davidson decided to create the FX... a "factory" chopper that was still an engineering hodgepodge of the FL frame and XL forks.
That was all well and good for a while, but, in 1991, Harley finally decided to do that style of bike properly, with a new ground-up design... the "Dyna", or FD. Still a large frame almost on par with the FL "Glide" bikes, but nimbler and lighter, with a set of light forks specifically engineered to balance out the design. My father's 1998 Super Glide is a Dyna.
...but now, it has come full circle. Harley decided to do a "Glide"-style Dyna, by putting the FL front forks on an FD... the Switchback. They're obviously acknoweldging this odd hodgepodge situation with the name. |
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