I like the red better than the orange personally , red & black look good together.

 

I'm kinda partial to red and black, too. I painted my 2005 all black, then added double 1/8" pinstripes and cleared it. I liked the simple, uncluttered look. Added a little extra thing-a-muh-bob shape on the saddlebags shortly afterward. It seemed like it needed something more.

 

Here's what I did to my 2010 Street Glide

 

Chrome is the only "color" that goes with black, IMHO.

Red is the only other color that I can think of that wouldn't be totally hideous - but not by much!

 

Seeing that Harley's official colors are Orange, Black, and white, I'm good with that. Taste is a matter of opinion. The planet is full of plain black Harley's with some chrome, sometimes you just gotta get out of the box.

 

Gunny your living the life, a nice Glide and i like what you did with the military Slim.

Now this is a very old photo August of 69, i was back from Nam about 3 weeks, but this is a somewhat faded photo of my Orange and black '68 Sportster.

Sorry about the size of the pic, i was trying to enlarge the bike but old Polaroids don't like to be edited.

 

Love the old school. Thanks for all the input. I think I am going to get some orange construction paper and make cut outs and tape them on my bike and get a visual and listen to the response.

 

Ah a 68 iron head, if I remember they were 900's back then and had a compression release on the handle bar to help ya kick it. Rode this pan 8 years. Hard to believe that these days VERY few riders have kickstarted a Harley.

 

Looks Good Gunny. Just the right amount......less is more!

 

Now this is a SWEEEEEET ride!!