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[GregKhougaz]

Motorcycle USA:  2015 Harley-Davidson Road Glide First Look

[Fired00d]

Wow.  Interesting wrist angle on those bars, too.

Agreed!!!! Doesn't look to comfortable.

 
Ride Safe,
Fired00d
 

[LC110]

Very disappointed (lipstick on a pig) IMO.

[OBB]

How about a copy of the email?

 

SBB

I'm not registered to get updates from MoCo. Guys on the RG forum were talking about it.

[YELLOWBIRD]

 oops! Double post regarding the 2015 Road Glide.

YB

[YELLOWBIRD]

Looks like all the "spy" photos were actually pretty close to real!

3 vents for the fixed fairing, glove boxes open up from the bottom, some new type of wind management deflector on the fixed fairing to cheat the wind, 19" rim up front, new handlebars, usb plug on the right glove box, etc. etc.

The Shark is back!

YB

[Dan_Lockwood]

I don't know if anyone mentioned this or not, but it appears that they have added lower fairing corner wind deflectors.  They're hard to see, but in a couple shots you can see them.

The spy shot from earlier had vents on the side of the fairing and you can still see beside the headlights a capped off air inlet, at least that's what it looks like to me.

I'm sorry, the vents in the front are functional.  I just watched the video and they appear to go all the way through and that's the anti-buffeting vents.

I wonder what the vents on the side of the fairing near the rear edge was then???

[Big T]

Saw on Harley's web site the 2015 RG is official. New shark nose with the new boom box, New gauges. They took a lot of the Mt Rushmore goodies and applied it to the RG.

[Big T]

It's official Harley posted the 2015 Road Glide on there website. New shark nose the new boom box
Is in it the Mt Rusmoree goodies are there as well. Two styles stander and Speacal. New gauges, Handlebar. Nice looking bike no SE cant tell if they have the little door where you can put your phone to keep it out of the weather.
Big T
Cajun Country

[CVCVORG]

 the handlebars remind me of those buckhorns on my 96 Springer.

They sucked back then as well, especially for those of us with longer legs

[phato1]

Agreed!!!! Doesn't look to comfortable.

 
Ride Safe,
Fired00d
 

I can feel the carpal tunnel developing just looking at it. First mod would have to be the bars.

[naitram]

I can feel the carpal tunnel developing just looking at it. First mod would have to be the bars.

aint that true with any bike?

[phato1]

aint that true with any bike?

Yes, but I have been able to live with the stock bars on the 11.5 so far - I would like the wrist angle reduced a little but without any additional height -

But the one on this '15 RG look torturous at best. I would have to have the dealer put on some sort of Apehanger with a flatter wrist angle and better pullback measurement before a test ride!
 

[Big T]

It's official Harley posted the 2015 Road Glide on there website. New shark nose the new boom box
Is in it the Mt Rusmoree goodies are there as well. Two styles stander and Speacal. New gauges, Handlebar. Nice looking bike no SE cant tell if they have the little door where you can put your phone to keep it out of the weather.
Big T
Cajun Country

[grc]

Seems rather backward, and thus typical Harley, to take the bike out of production for an entire year and still not make the move to water cooling.  It doesn't require shutting down production for a year to make the relatively minor changes seen here.  They didn't halt production of the e'glides for 2013 to be able to come out with the changes for 2014, did they?

An updated fairing and new entertainment system doesn't impress me nearly as much as an improved powertrain and suspension would have.  But of course that's because my priorities are about 180° from Harley's priorities.

Nothing here to make me change my mind about never buying another new Harley.

Jerry