Boy howdy
Matt must really be scared about Road Glide sales to post that bunch of hooie. HD was not the first to come up with a fixed fairing bike anyway. The first fixed fairing bikes I recall seeing were Honda gold wings with fairings by Craig Vetter named Windjammer. Heck Vetter even sold fairings to HD to mount on the FLH called the Liberator in the mid 70's. The design led to Harley COPYING Vetter to introduce the first FLT in 1980.
HD also did not introduce the first V-Twin American Motorcycle, that would be Curtis in 1903....Indian and Harley Both Copied that idea with Indian introducing its first twin in 1906 and Harley in 1909.
My point is, if I have one, is that everybody copies those things which make sense, and in this case Indian knows there are advantages to a fixed fairing machine and have taken that notion and applied it to the bike in there own way.
I ain’t a huge fan of Road Glides and yes I’ve owned one, but I will give this new Indian a look see mainly because I can’t see myself buying a super sumper.