Puzzled, and others educate me please! Having been a Street Glide guy my dealer is working on a price for me on the 18 2 tone grey SG and 2 tone grey RG. No I am not buying 2 bikes, but keeping my option open on one or the other. At 5'8" the SG has fit me prefect but in looking at the dimensions I see the RG will actually put me closer to the ground. Both bikes are to include Reduced reach bars as I am short in the arms and arm fatigue is a big issue for me on my present SG. Both bikes priced with matching King Tour Pak and rest of normal accessories. Pretend you are a salesman and tell me why I would want the RG over the SG. What is the big front wheel going to do for me other than looks? etc etc etc. I have never road a RG but my buddies that have them love them. 3 Ultras before getting into the SG's. I always found the SG less top heavy and better balanced for my height compared to the Ultra. FYI up here in Canada now the SG is listing at $50 and the RG at $53!!!!
Everything on Harleys is about the looks. Either you like the looks of the batwing or the sharknose.
I've had two newer Harleys, an '08 SERK with big windshield and my current '09 SERG and I have a large Clear View on it.
When I walked into the Rapid City Convention Center at Sturgis in '08, I saw the back ends of the three new SERG's and fell in love with the look. To be honest if they had been SESG's instead of the SERG's, I would be riding a SESG now instead. I was ignorant of any pro/con of either.
I've grown to love the RG setup and can now look back and see how much I fought the side winds around here with the RK. Although the RK was not a batwing bike, the big windshield acted very much like one.
I really don't believe you can go wrong with either, they're just different in some ways and as you've seen, there's good arguments for both.
So again, what do you like? Bat or Shark?