A Mid-Year 2014 Road Glide?
The Harley-Davidson Road Glide is different.
Different design, different ride and the motorcycle has incredibly loyal customers.
Customers who appreciate the wind control and handling that comes with a frame mounted fairing are not typically going to switch to another model. However, the Road Glide does take people off competitive brands and without it in the H-D line up dealers are missing an opportunity or worse, will see erosion of market segment share.
Sales numbers do talk and during the last earnings call, CFO John Olin stated that the Road Glide represented approximately 9% sales volume and would be back from its temporary hiatus.
And now in the buzzfeed there is more speculation about what the 2015 Road Glide fairing may look like. Thanks to Worth Harley-Davidson, the Kansas City, MO., dealer posted photo’s on a Facebook page.
Why wait for the 2015. This nice custom fairing could hold all your aftermarket Project RUSHMORE electronic purchases?!
UPDATE: July 8, 2014 – “Official” spy photos of the 2015 Road Glide are HERE.
UPDATED: August 1, 2014 – Harley-Davidson officially reveals the 2015 Road Glide.
Photo courtesy of Worth H-D.
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Looks fake to me. Touch screen came from a “Special”, all controls are no different from any 14′ bagger. The ferring is what NEEDS to be changed or redesigned. And in this photo there is non-of that.
one thing is for sure there will be a black one
Maui needs to know his bikes better before making comments. The RG is the same bike as the other FL bikes except the frame mounted fairing.(Yes, it is spelled FAIRING)
The photo was not likely sanctioned by mother Harley however I’d be willing to say it is at least a working prototype for sure. The controls match those of the 2014 FLs and the tach/speedo also same as the current 2014’s. The inner fairing has prepositioned guages and two new tweeters. These details and the painted inner fairing would suggest the pic is of what is likely a RG Custom Special Edition. Same was released as the 2014 SG Special… upgraded sound system, touch screen info unit and yes, a painted inner FAIRING.
I’ll wait to see what is released from HD but the photo looks reasonable to me. After all, the new 2014 Batwing fairing didn’t really change much either. With the RoadGlide being 9% of sales… why mess with a good thing? it’s iconic and by far the best ride Harley makes… stats show RG owners ride 20% more miles than any other model.
If it’s good enough for Willie G it’s good enough for me… 🙂
[…] The photos indicate the use of floating brake rotors and the hard bags feature the one-touch latch release system. If you look closely at the dashboard the layout is similar to previous spy photo’s I’ve released HERE or the mid-year speculation HERE. […]
I certainly hope that this is a joke. I seriously doubt that Harley would pull the Roadglide for a year just to redesign the center portion of the fairing. I expect a complete re-design of the bike to include water cooling. If this is all they have then I’m keeping my ’13 and when it comes time to buy a new bike I might be looking elsewhere and that’s after owning over 20 new Harley’s.
[…] Note: If you’re tracking or curious how accurate any of the previous blog posts were: Road Glide spy photos HERE. Early 2014 Road Glide speculation HERE and HERE. […]