Ok. I have tried to search on here and have had no luck. If this has already been discussed, please just give me a link and I will happily read away.

But has HD stopped using the Sportster name? I was looking at the H-D website today and realized that there is ZERO mention of them. They are now referring to the Iron 883/1200 and the Forty Eight under the “STREET” category. And that is it. No XL, no Sportster.

When I Google Sportster, I come up with a 2021 Pge that shows those 3 models under Sportster header on the H-D website (like a back door to an old page)...but as soon as I hit anything on the page it refreshes with the current listings and the Sportster name disappears.

Then I realized that they are no longer using the letter identifications FLHX, FXST etc. Just calling each model by their nicknames.

Am I just late to the party? Or is this the new model identification and the end of the Sportster...or is it a way to put the Sportster label on a new model?

 

https://www.harley-davidson.com/us/e...sportster.html

They are using the word Sportster, not as much as I'd expect though.

 

sportster evolves around the engine trans assembly once that is changed its a different bike imo

 

I think it was 2020 but might have been 2019 that H-D changed the way they were grouping bikes on the web page. Up to that point they had grouped all of the bikes on the touring frame together as they also did with the Softail, Sportster, and Street frames.

The company never really explained this, but it looks like they realigned their web page by some vague functional grouping. All of the large, long ranger touring bikes built on the touring frame were grouped together along with the Softail Heritage Classic, possibly just because it comes with a windshield and bags. The rest of the Softails were in a group renamed to Cruiser, even the Sport Glide with its windshield and hard bags. The Sportsters and Streets got tossed into the Street group, I suppose because somebody in H-D marketing doesn't think you can get past the city limit sign without at least a 103ci engine in your bike.

At that time H-D did seem to purge the name Sportster from their web site, instead just referring to the Roadster, Iron 883, Iron 1200 and Forty-Eight by their specific model names rather than the bike family/frame used in the past.

 

Yeah I think they went from 5 to 3 bike families of course I am referring back to the days of Dyna and VROD etc.

 

Yes. This is what I meant by the “back door page”. Even from there, once you click something else...you won’t find that page anywhere in the menu.

 

I think 2020 was the last year the Sportster/Street was sold in most EU and South American countries. No longer in 2021.

Could be they're using the money saved to expand the Livewire and Pan American bikes. Not to mention the ebicycles.

 

if that was fact it would have not have been a sportster when it was changed to the evo engine or the 6 speed trans

 

Sportster, Iron or whatever, we will all look at them to be the same bike. Marketing hype. It also looks like HD stripped down that bike (Iron or sportster) as if they are trying to push people to the higher priced bikes. Does not seem you can outfit this "Street" bike the same way as the old "Sportster".

 

6 Speed? I think you meant 5 speed