This Harley-Davidson nameplate arrived for the 2008 model year as part of the Dyna family and became one of the lineup’s most visually distinctive cruisers. It took the factory’s long-running Dyna formula and pushed it in a more aggressive, custom-inspired direction, with a wide stance, chopped styling cues, and the kind of muscular presence that helped define late-era Dyna design. The model was identified by the FXDF code and remained in production through the end of the Dyna line.
The broader Dyna family itself traces back to 1991, when Harley-Davidson introduced the Dyna Glide Sturgis as a new chassis concept built around a more modern frame and isolated big-twin mounting. Over time, the Dyna platform became a core Harley-Davidson cruiser architecture and served as the basis for several well-known factory customs and performance-oriented variants. This particular nameplate fit into that tradition as the family’s bold, dark-edged heavyweight custom.
Harley-Davidson retired the entire Dyna family after the 2017 model year, and several of its styling ideas and model names were carried forward into the redesigned Softail line for 2018. As a result, this nameplate has a finite first chapter in the Dyna era, with no separate revival under the same exact Dyna designation.