Table of contents

• 50 years of the Harley-Davidson Super Glide The chopper learns to walk
• Harley builds a chimera
• New model lines are born
• Old model series are buried
• opinion poll
• Conclusion

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Super Glide from 1971

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Super Glide from 1971

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Super Glide from 1971

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Super Glide from 1971

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Super Glide from 1971

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Super Glide from 1971

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Super Glide from 1973

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Super Glide from 1976

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Low Rider from 1977

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Super Glide from 1977

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Sturgis from 1980

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Wide Glide from 1980

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Super Glide from 1982

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Super Glide from 1984

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Dyna Glide Sturgis from 1991

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Dyna Super Glide Sport from 1999

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Dyna Super Glide Sport from 1999

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Dyna Super Glide Custom from 2005

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35th Anniversary Super Glide from 2006

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Street Bob from 2006

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Dyna Switchback from 2012

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Low Rider S from 2017

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Street Bob from 2018

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Low Rider S from 2021

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Street Bob of 2021

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50 years of the Harley-Davidson Super Glide: The first custom bike ex works

50 years of the Harley-Davidson Super Glide
The chopper learns to walk

1969: Anyone who sees the film Easy Rider wants exactly such motorcycles. Harley-Davidson does not offer such models. With this impulse, Harley crosses the Big Twins with the Sportster. 1971: The Super Glide is born and the ancestor of many generations. happy Birthday.

Jens Kratschmar

03/12/2021

In this article:

• Harley builds a chimera
• New model lines are born
• Old model series are buried
• Conclusion

Willie G. Davidson, grandson of one of the company’s founders and head of Harley’s design department since 1963, wants to use the momentum of the films Easy Rider and the media-heavy rocker movement at the time to design a motorcycle that is already in series production, just like the custom bikes of that time . 1969: The beginning of factory customizing in Home of Harley-Davidson – and in general.

Harley builds a chimera

Willie G.’s idea is to plant the slim fork and the front wheel of a Sportster in the frame of a FL model with the 1200 cc Shovelhead engine. The FX model series was born. 1971 the FX Super Glide rolled off the production line with the boat tail that was then felt to be difficult but is now difficult to find. One year after the premiere, the plastic rear disappears again. A new, curved fender and the stepped bench bring the breakthrough. The FX Super Glide followed in 1977 with the Low Rider and in 1980 with the Wide Glide, some of which still exist today, which – partly rightly – keep Harley’s myth of individuality and non-conformism alive.

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The Super Glide from 1971 with the distinctive and unloved boat tail.

New model lines are born

The FXR family emerged from the FX types in 1984. The R stands for “rubber mounted” and identifies the rubber mountings of the new Evo engine in the frame. The FXDB Sturgis debuted in 1991: Instead of the R, it bears the suffix D in the type abbreviation, which stands for Dyna or Dynamic. It is the first Harley whose frame is developed using CAD (Computer Aided Design), is significantly stiffer and establishes a new model family: The dynas. In addition to the Sports Star, which continues to sell well, and the Softail Twins, which have been successful since 1984, the third traditional series. As of 1999, the Dynas, the heir to the Super Glide, will be powered by the new twin-cam 88 engine with two camshafts and 1,432 cubic meters. In 2007, after a new frame, the six-speed gearbox and 160 millimeter wide rear tires, the Twin-Cam 96 engine came into the Dynas as a 1,562 cubic power plant. The most brutal and arguably most active Dyna is the Low Rider S from 2017 with the almost 100 PS 110 CVO engine. The Dynas models have been using the current Milwaukee Eight engine with 107 or 114 cubic inches, i.e. 1,742 and 1,868 cubic inches, since 2018.

Chopper / cruiser

Endurance test of the Harley-Davidson Heritage Classic

Final balance after 50,000 test kilometers

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Old model series are buried

For the 115th company anniversary in 2018, however, we also have to say goodbye. Harley-Davidson unites the previous series Softail and Dyna under the name Softail and a completely new, not entirely unimportant, model strategy. 2021 will hold the puristic Street Bob and the dynamic Low Rider S with the Milwaukee Eight 114 engine keeps the memory of the 1971 Super Glide alive.

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The Street Bob 114 from 2021 is currently the last descendant of the Super Glide.

opinion poll

The future of Harley lies in the hands of the liquid-cooled V2?

Voted 820 times

Yes, this is the only way to continue.

No, the classic air-cooled V2 will continue to dominate.

Conclusion

50 years of Street Glide from Harley-Davidson. Probably the start of a large series of anniversaries for the company in the next few years. At 65, the Sportster is due for the next one in 2022 – hopefully with a new entry-level model.

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