It started so innocently.....

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Dichotomous · Wed Feb 15, 2006 6:47 am

I get confused by the letters in the harleys names, flh, flt, hfltq and all. lol. Mainly thats cause they dont match with the names of the bikes as far as I know, I am pretty uneducated in this though. then again all the g's and s's and x's and cbr's and such confuse me too though, cant these bikes find real names?

Gummiente · Wed Feb 15, 2006 6:54 am

Dichotomous wrote:I get confused by the letters in the harleys names, flh, flt, hfltq and all.

Here, this will help: Harley Alphabet.

Dichotomous · Wed Feb 15, 2006 7:07 am

hmmm, yes I looked at that, so they change the motor and keep the same letter for the new motor, and instead of calling something new a new model they just adapt the old one with more letters? I still dont like it. But then again I also dont like how they secretely call my steel cage an XJ and that has nothing at all to do with the name. 3 points to anyone who can get the vehicle name on that one. that and my LS 650 is also called the savage, why cant companies stick with one name?

#64 Unread post by **dr_bar** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 7:07 am

Dichotomous wrote:I get confused by the letters in the harleys names, flh, flt, hfltq and all. lol. Mainly thats cause they dont match with the names of the bikes as far as I know, I am pretty uneducated in this though. then again all the g's and s's and x's and cbr's and such confuse me too though, cant these bikes find real names?

I see gummi beat me to it, but here is a bit of an explaination as well...

Model designations
Harley model designations are a sequence of letters and numbers, combined
in limited ways. The sequences can be long, as in the 2006 model designation FLHTCUSE.

The first letter is one of the following:

F (Big Twin), M (Military), X (Sportster), or V (VRSC)

Letters are appended singly or in pairs, as follows:

B (Belt Drive), C (Classic or Custom), D (Dyna Glide), DG (Disk Glide),
E (Electric start), F (Fat Boy (1990-present) or Foot-shift (1972 and prior)),
H (High compression), L (Hydra Glide forks), LR (Low Rider), P (Police),
R (Race or Rubber-mount), S (Sport or Springer), SB (Single belt final drive),
ST (Softail), T (Touring), WG (Wide Glide), I (Fuel injection),
SE (Screamin’ Eagle), U (Ultra)

Custom Vehicle Operations models can also have a number (2,3,4) added.

Note that these conventions for model designations are broken regularly by the company.

Dichotomous · Wed Feb 15, 2006 7:10 am

now what does the dyna mean? is it the transmission or model or something?

High_Side · Wed Feb 15, 2006 2:55 pm

Dichotomous wrote:now what does the dyna mean? is it the transmission or model or something?

Chassis type

Papa Bear · Sat Feb 18, 2006 7:25 am

Dammit Gummi, here all these years I thought I was riding a Super Glide but Noooooooooo you had to go and show me that lousy alphabet.
So it turns out that all along it's been a Fat Bob, FXEF,

yep now I feel cheated like maybe I should have been living in the Broken Mountains region of Alberta, Riding a Fat Bob and all! I don't know how the wife is going to take this!