Link for the future generations <| sep |> AMF bikes weren ' t unpopular when they were built . AMF Harley sold plenty of bikes in the 70 ' s and early 80 ' s . The problem was that Honda started selling a cheaper bike with a smaller motor , better performance , better mileage , better reliability , less required maintenance and Harley was stuck selling 1930 ' s 1950 ' s tech bikes with nothing being developed to replace it . AMF got a bad rap for a lot of reasons , some that predate their acquisition of Harley in 1970 and some they brought on themselves . AMF did a lot of good things too , though . If AMF hadn ' t bought Harley they most likely would have been acquired by a foreign company that wasn ' t interested in making bikes , they just wanted the factoryequipmentetc . plus like I said in an earlier comment AMF built the York Plant , developed the EVO , developed the touring frame that Harley still uses to this day that replaced the old 4 speed FL frame that wasn ' t much different than the knucklehead days except for the swing arm that was added in 58 and the extra room for the electric starter in 65 . AMF Harley developed the FXR that ' s all the rage today . They did a lot of good stuff . You ' re correct that fewer and fewer people are around who remember that Harley used to be owned by AMF . I remember being a kid in the late 80 ' s and hearing my friend ' s dad , an Evo rider , ridiculing a Shovel FLH we thought was pretty cool . Fast forward a decade or more when I first got my Shovel FLH and there was still a lot of that out there . These days you don ' t really hear much of that anymore . It was just a little cognitive dissonance on my part if that ' s the correct usage of the term . It just threw me for a loop when I saw it . I guess I just thought I ' d never see the day . Hope you enjoy the bike and I bet you ' ll get plenty of people asking you about AMF . I still get asked about it when out and about .