As a self proclaimed Road Glide guy I see no reason for such a thing. Everything factory is waterproof. A cover with panels combined with the heat of the motor and the cool rain seems like it'd fog up almost immediately. I have a wet weather cover for my aftermarket radio that works just fine. The speakers and gauges will more than likely take more water than I will......
thanks for the info...
I would tend to agree that the gauges are water proof, but agree to disagree that the the stereo or many of the toggle switches are 100% waterproof. IMHO they are water resistant but not water proof...
Case in point, had a unexpected fast moving storm rip through town a few weeks ago, that dumped a lot of hard, heavy rain & wind in a few minutes and was blown out of town very quickly.
Long story short my bike got drenched while I was in store for about 20 minutes and had it uncovered in parking lot...
There was only like a 10% chance of rain that day; it did not look like it was going to rain when I left the house.
Anyway water was pooled up on LCD of stereo etc., I left it turned off, took it out & disassembled it, and it had water inside of it...
I blew it out with compressed air and left it sit for a week before I put any power to it; and all was good...
In addition, many toggle switches had varying amounts of moisture in them, which I also blew out with compressed air, not sure having any moisture whatsoever is a good idea anywhere there's electricity...
I have the BOOM™ BUDDIES LID SPEAKER GRILL COVERS from
http://www.hogcovers.com/ but of course I did not have them on, because rain of any consequence was unexpected, there was water on top of speakers and I blew them out too with compressed air. Apparently the speakers h-d puts in CVO bags are made of some water-resistant material; after I blew them off & put stereo back in a week later, I see know ill effects with speakers or anything else; visibly or otherwise.
For same reason aforesaid I did not have my screaming eagle air filter rain sock on and my air-cleaner element was soaked & had to blow it out as well.
Any chance that wet weather cover for your aftermarket radio might work for the factory one? have any info on where to buy one? link(s)?
thanks in advance.