The reason the RG is delayed is that they will try to put the radiators in the fairing. It is possible because the fairing is fixed!!!
Maybe one on each side with a 69 Mach I style scoop. Or in the center like a 65 vette, above the headlights since there will be all that room when they move the radio to the sppedo console area!
I need to hit the photoshop. Maybe if they wont, a can do this when I retrofit the 2014 Twin Cool 110 to my 09 RG!!!!
I really don't want a hydro shark either, a custom would be an option, but then again, I like the option list of the Ultra.
If i were smart, I would just keep my 11 and be happy...
Like the quote says, they are going to use the RG to get business away from the other brands. To do that they need a real wet motor on a fixed fairing bike that "eats wings and miles all day" or what's the point.
I think the quote says that they already use the RG to compete with other brands.
Curious, what makes it pointless to try to compete without a "real wet" motor? The HD touring setup certainly proves to be able to put down buttloads of miles for a rider. I don't see how liquid-cooled would make the HD-Touring platform more attractive than a GW/BMW/other.
I agree, hometoast. The owner of Milwaukee H-D, Chaz Hastings, says that they use the Roadie to lure folks off other brands. That sounds to me like he's talking about what has already happened. Whether or not that's true, it is his opinion.
I further agree that a "real wet motor" isn't a requirement.
I imagine that many folks are going to be disappointed that the new Roadie isn't vastly different. I expect it will just join the other Project Rushmore lineup. Naturally the fairing will have been reworked to accommodate that part of the PR package. Maybe the Ultra gets the wet heads, maybe not.
After all, as SVP Olin said in the article, the folks who purchase Roadies are "incredibly loyal." To me that translates as 'don't change too much'.
Love all the contriversy here.
1. The molds for the fairing were antequated. The company that made them folded. HD moved the production to one of their plants and started the re-design.
2. Europe has thrown down the gauntlet. Unless HD changes EPA and goes quieter, they will not be allowed after 2015.
3. Chatted with Karen Davidson this past weekend. While not commenting on any future development of the RG, she did say that it is the #1 selling model on the west coast.
Love all the contriversy here.
1. The molds for the fairing were antequated. The company that made them folded. HD moved the production to one of their plants and started the re-design.
2. Europe has thrown down the gauntlet. Unless HD changes EPA and goes quieter, they will not be allowed after 2015.
3. Chatted with Karen Davidson this past weekend. While not commenting on any future development of the RG, she did say that it is the #1 selling model on the west coast.
I'm guessing dinggus meant financially. Given the initial depreciation and offsetting any modifications, two years seems like a quick turn-around. Unless you never get off the bike, literally, your mileage can't be the real factor.
But hey, if it works for you that's all that matters.
Sense the age of 26 I have never financed a car or a bike Got smart found a better way. Trading every two years if I chose to keeps me on a new ride with few if any repair cost other than tires and brake pads.
I do business with the same dealer all the time it takes about 10-15 minutes buy a new one. I get a good deal on trade and a good price on the new one it works out very well .
It does not work if you finance that is a different game.
It does hurt sometimes I miss my 07 RG.
"Wet" because its the only way to get a motor tuned for best performance with the EPA requirements coming down the line. I was hoping the new RG would be the breakout bike for the future. I love my RG's (00 SERG,98 RG) and will never sell them, but will not pull the trigger on another single crank pin, air cooled Harley. I'll be 70 this summer, but I can still dream and hope to see the day Harley retires that old farm engine at least from the touring line up.
I do too, I'm ready for a new bike, and really like the Rushmore changes. My guy in the know says the reveal at Daytona is Not going to be the new RG. I sure hope he's wrong, and your dealer is right...
yeah smitty, in cash transactions I can see it. Do you make any modifications? It would seem hard to recoup those costs in such a short timeframe.
It basically looks like a rental since you pay cash... you're just coming up with the difference between the trade-in and the new price every other year.
I gave up on engine mods years ago. Just wasted to much time and money on speed and power I never needed.
I do a good stage 1 add some fuel .
Sense switching to RG and RGU I add the facisa, spoiler lights on the bags just basic stuff.
Years ago Wife and I got serious about things . We kept what we had and make payments each month to our self. In time we had enough to buy a new car cash then the bike and we have followed that every sense. Wife just bought a new car few months back ,she drove her last one a few months short of 10 years Paid cash and gave the old one away to someone that needed a car.
16 years ago we built our second home Cash. The system works if you can just force your self to get through the first one.
I hope they release a 2015 that is worth buying not just a band-aid RGU with an infor center stuck in it.
The 1996 FB is not going anywhere until am dead then second son gets it.
I don't like the new 'info center'. Its to Hondaish. Not sure about the water cooled idea. No doubt it is better for the engine but I prefer the old over the new....usually. Glad I bought a 2013 as 'insurance'. Hope HD isn't going to mess this up. Always have my Road King as my 'old school' ride.
GM at my dealer told me I probably won't like the new RG. He heard its going to be kind of Goldwingish.........You don't think the fact that he is trying to sell me a 13 has anything to do with what he told me do you?
I too love the looks of the F6B, would love to take one for a spin too! Love how nice everything fits, the guages are gorgesou and the whole bike just looks mean! Don't think I'd ever trade or get rid of my road glide for one tho. Just too much culture that comes with owning an HD that you'll never get owning any other brand. That alone is hard to walk away from!
They are absolutely batwings. Look at the paint, and the tank emblems, not to mention to angle of the fairing.
HD would never have the exact same paint scheme from model to model. Even with the Ultra Classic and Limited the paints schemes themselves are different.
Clearly the orange and silver is an Ultra Limited.
Don't know why the trunk looks like that but I took the tour at the factory and when they ship the bike it is complete, they even do a test run on the dyno before they leave. That is missing the passenger pad also, none of the bikes I saw that were being loaded looked like that.
I have seen them come into my local shop that way. I asked why and the guys there didn't know either. The old style trunk may not have come that way but the new ones do.
Saw a tan and brown Ulta Limited at the dealer here on Guam yesterday. Green crate under the tour pac and all. They put it on the floor before they put it together along with a couple other Rushmore bikes. They had just unloaded them the night before.
I wonder if angling the trunk up like that for shipping gives them the extra inch or so of clearance in the shipping crate they needed to not have to have a new crate developed and manufactured for the ultras.
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