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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Automotive Insanity > Cycle Asylum > Join C.A.H.O.G.(R) At Your Local Harley-Davidson Motor Company(R) Dealer
 
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AncientTV
Jun 1, 2006

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The alphabet soup demystified:

Wikipedia posted:

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 may be one of the following:
K (1950s flathead small twin), E, F (1936–* single cam OHV big twin), U, V (1930–48 four cam flathead big twin), D, G, R, W (flathead small twin), X (Sportster OHV), or V (VRSC)
since 1984 only F (Big Twin), X (Sportster) and V (V_ROD) have been used regularly.
Letters are appended singly or in pairs, as follows:
B (BLACKED OUT ie Street Bob, Night Train, and Cross Bones models), C (Classic or Custom), CW (Custom Wide (2008 Softail Rocker)) D (Dyna chasis or Softail Deuce), E (Electric start), F (Fat Boy (1990–present); Fat Bob (2008–present) or Foot-shift (1972 and prior)), H (HANDLE BAR/ FRONT END MOUNTED FAIRING. ie bat wing fairing/quick release windshield.), I (Fuel injection), L (Low Rider)), N {(Nostalgia as in Softail Deluxe/Nostalgia/Special) and Nightster in Sportster family} P (Police), R (Race, Road King, or Rubber-mount), S (Sport, Springer), ST (Softail), T (FRAME MOUNTED FAIRING), WG (Wide Glide), SE (Screamin' Eagle), U (Ultra) X (FLHX Street Glide), sport in Dyna models, and Street Glide in Touring models.) XT (T-Sport Dyna Model).
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.

I went ahead and bolded the only sentence that matters FREEDOM:patriot: portion of the explanation.

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AncientTV
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Apparently, everything on a Harley is called the Frame.

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edit: nope

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AncientTV fucked around with this message at 20:31 on Jan 8, 2012

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AncientTV
Jun 1, 2006

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I can't even imagine how annoying the weight imbalance must be.

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invision posted:

I always thought that perimeter rotor was stupid until I finally rode one and holy poo poo does that thing stop.

They aren't necessarily a bad concept, but I think the rotors tend to warp under repeated hard braking, e.g. track conditions.

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n8r posted:

Something about the size of the headlight that messes up the look of the frontend for me.

Exactly what I was thinking, it looks like it's shrinking back in surprise.

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Nidhg00670000 posted:

Ah, that explains it. I'm sure they've all calculated it to the penny, but to me it seems counterintuitive that it would be cheaper to make different switchgear and put on bikes depending on where they're going to be sold. v:shobon:v\

I think it's because that in quite a few states it's illegal to flash your brights at people.

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AncientTV
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I always cringe when I hear someone idling at like 400rpm. I just want to reach out to the poor bike.

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AncientTV
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Both checking in, also making sure it's in first at a stop light about a thousand times.

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AncientTV
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Probably would have been cheaper to have someone buy you one in the states and then ship it overnight :cripes:

edit: or maybe not I guess it depends what your duty tax is

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The ground clearance on EX250s is great if you get some rearsets.

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