Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles.harley
From: Bruce Bryner <BBry...@iusb.edu>
Date: 1999/02/17
Subject: HD tidbits from '81
HD tidbits from '81
Main models, (production #'s)
XLH - 1,000 (8,442)
XLS - 1,000 (1,660) 'Roadster'
(80ci standard on all on this year)
FXB - (3,543) 'Sturgis'
FXWG - (5,166) 'Wide Glide'
FXS - (7,223) 'Low Rider'
FXE - (3,085)
FXEF - (3,691) 'Fat Bob'
FLH - (2,131)
FLH Heritage (784)
FLH Police (402)
FLHS - (1,062)
FLHC - (1,472) 'Classic' (w/side car +152)
FLT - (1,636) 'Tour Glide' (unoffically 'Rubber Glide' of 1980)
FLTC - (1,157) 'Tour Glide Classic'
Paint: birch white, vivid black, classic tan, classic creme, candy root
beer, metallic blue, light red, dark carmine, orange[that's too simple],
olive, light charcoal metallic, dark silver.
XLS changes: buckhorn handlebars, shorty dual exhaust, 3.3 gallon, wire or cast wheels options, 16" or 18" rear wheel options, 2.2 gallon tank optional.
XLH changes: shorter front forks, wire or cast wheels options, 18/18"
rear wheel options, 3.3 gallon optional.
ALL 80ci models: V-Fire II electronic ignition, reduced compression to
7.4:1, longer valve guides, redesigned valve guide seals, additional
drain lines from rocker boxes, firling rear brake caliper.
FLH changes: Heritage retro-styled to FLH, suspended seat, fringed
leather bags, windshield, case guards, paint scheme of orange/olive
drab.
FLT changes: revised exhaust, FLTC gets special paint & decals
MoFoCo minutes:
Beals heads group, (including Willie G & Charlie Thompson and other HD execs), signing letter of intent to buy HD from AMF.
6/16/81, they are successful. [If I wore hats, I'd take it off to them.
Somebody loan me a hat.]
HD shareholders have a celebratory ride from York to Milwakee.
Close to 200 clerical positions are eliminated.
" The Eagle Sores Alone" slogan is born.
A gold dipstick is inserted by Beals into the 1st non-AMF bike, in York.
Racing:
Grand National - Mike Kidd takes 1st, Gary Scott takes 2nd, Randy Goss takes 3rd, [that's Goss, not Moss ;^) ].
*** tidbits taken from various sources.
Bruce
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