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Damned if I know why the MoCo discontinued the WG...I see a lot of them on the road, so it's not like they weren't selling.
Me too, lots of WG's here in my town.
When I got ready to buy another Harley I was tossed up between a WG and the Fat Bob. Whey I found out they discontinued the WG, I bought the Fat Bob. Made my decison easy.
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Lets see now.. More chrome, balanced engine, hidden shocks, different front end, floorboards instead of pegs, more lights, larger fenders, Rigid frame, wider wheels and tires on most softails, saddlebags and Windshield on the Heritage, Yeah...its worth the difference
It comes down to the model and chrome. The high price Dyna Wide Glide was comparable to the softal cruisers in price. All about 17K and change. The discontinued softtail standard were under 15K which is less than a Dyna Low Rider but close. The Dyna Super Glide is pretty bare bones with the cheapest price point but they are not a big seller so I guess supply and demand there. Street Bobs are the new hot Dyna....no chrome...mid controls...Kinda the poor mans Wide Glide. Great buy for around 15k.
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If I was a RUB I would have a Wide Glide to go along with my Softail. I do want one in a bad way, but I have to pay off the Heritage first. Don't understand why they quit making them. Nice WG Joe.
My hunch is they shelved the WideGlide and Road King Custom to clear the field for the StreetGlide. For now it's the new cool.
MSRP of a Night Train is $15,899, the cheapest Softail.
MSRP of a Low Rider is $15,099, the most expensive Dyna.
MSRP of a Road King or Electra Glide Standard is $16,999, the cheapest touring bikes. (Same MSRP as a Softail Custom, the second-cheapest Softail.)
Are Softails more expensive to produce? Than a Dyna? Sure. But they've been making Softails for decades. It's not as if they're paying for a new manufacturing process (though perhaps for an inefficient one--and a reason to move out of York).
HD just knows what the market will bear for these chrome-dipped bikes (Night Train excepted).
The Softails have that oil tank under the seat. I don't understand why they have them and Dynas don't.
The Softail has an oil tank under the seat because the whole bike is meant to look like a traditional rigid frame HD. And on those bikes, that's where the oil tank was located.
Dynas are simply an extension of the Super Glide line, which was a "sportsterized" version of the dresser line. Now that the dressers are rubber-mounted engines, with the tranny directly coupled to the engine, a swingarm pivoting on the tranny rather than the frame, and a completely new frame design, the oil tank had to be relocated to accomodate the design changes. The Dyna follows suit, possibly both as a design extension similar to the original Super Glide/dresser relationship, and as an economical choice - same engine/tranny in both lines.
Howzat?
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The Softail has an oil tank under the seat because the whole bike is meant to look like a traditional rigid frame HD. And on those bikes, that's where the oil tank was located.
Dynas are simply an extension of the Super Glide line, which was a "sportsterized" version of the dresser line. Now that the dressers are rubber-mounted engines, with the tranny directly coupled to the engine, a swingarm pivoting on the tranny rather than the frame, and a completely new frame design, the oil tank had to be relocated to accomodate the design changes. The Dyna follows suit, possibly both as a design extension similar to the original Super Glide/dresser relationship, and as an economical choice - same engine/tranny in both lines.
I do want one in a bad way, but I have to pay off the Heritage first. Don't understand why they quit making them. Nice WG Joe.
