So why did HD call our bike a Dyna?

I've read that it's an ancient Greek girls name meaning Powerful.

Anyone know why HD used the name?

Roo.

You're a helpful bastard Bonkers. Thanks for that......

Ok H&H. I can run with that. Thanks.
It's a little dull though. I kinda expected a little more feeling from Willy & the boys.

Found on another site, I had to share it.
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Maybe it is a cousin of NINJA?

So back in the day when Nissan was first contemplating the marketing of their cars to America they wanted a name that sounded less Japanese to appeal to the American consumer. German cars seemed to be doing well there, so they figured who better to help them come up with a name than some of the fine engineers and marketers from Porsche and BMW?

So a Nissan exective calls them one day to explain their delima. The Nissan rep explains they need a catchy name and they need it within 24 hours. An engineer with a thick German accent seemed shocked and asked "Dat Soon?"

The Nissan exective was amazed, "THATS PERFECT, THANK YOU!!" and hangs up.

It's from the old depression era  limerick....

 

Rich girls use vaseline,

poor girls use lard,

Dyna uses axle grease,

because her cunt's so hard.

 

It was a bit of an in house joke amongst the designers at Harley who were aware of the shortcomings of the Dynas shocks, and the resulting thought that any girl who rides one of them must indeed have "Robust Undercarriage".

Well I was using a bit of artistic licence there, you know, not letting the truth get in the way of bullshit.

However!

There is an interesting story about the naming of the Fatboy model which made its debut in 1990.

The story goes something like this.....

In the late 80's Harley was getting pretty pissed off with the number of "Metric Cruisers" from the home of the sushi,rising sun,Honda,Kawa,Suzi,Yamaha etc etc.

The 2 bombs that were dropped on Japan to end world war 2 were "Fat Man" which was dropped on Nagasaki and "Little boy" that was dropped on Hiroshima. Fatboy being an amalgam of the two.

The firsy Fatboy had many design "accents" which can be seen to be taken from the bomber that dropped the bombs.

Harley HQ of course refutes any link however there is lots of evidence that backs up the claim.

It may or may not be true....What do your "bullshit detectors" think? , fellow forum perusers.

At the end of the day Dyna in Harley Speak means "best model" so who gives a fuck hahaha