Road King, Why a Road King? Why not a Street Glide or a Road Glide? Does the lack of a fairing zap all of your energy after a long ride? I hadn't considered one till this weekend. Someone please explain.

 

No one will explain it to you better than yourself. Look, performance, options, versatility all personal choices and preferences. I've chosen mine because I liked it.

 

First off it's the looks. The thing is one of the best looking bikes I've ever seen (personal preference), You can always put a windshield on if you want to ride long distances. It's comfortable, powerful, and the stretched saddle bags look amazing. The handling is awesome. It feels like a much smaller bike when you are riding it. With no fairing you see more of the road, and have no obstruction, and i don't care about having a radio. My phone does my navigation for me, and you can plug the phone into the USB port if you are using it for long distances. Again, all personal preference, and what you want on your bike.

 

My sales guy ordered me the emblem, i put it on last night. He said it must have been a factory slip up.

 

Having owned faired and unfaired bikes, don't think just because a Glide (or any faired bike for that matter) that has a fairing it is better, in my experience, it is worse. Fairings cause buffeting and while that buffeting can be mitigated, it still "wears" me out faster than my Road King. I prefer to be out in the clean air of a non-faired bike, less air directed at my head and none of the air coming up from the tank area. The only thing I think a fairing helps with is rain. Nope, I'll take a non-faired bike any day. Like others have said, add the windshield if you want some protection.

Then you also benefit from less weight over the front end and makes slower speed handling much better than on a Glide.

 

I posted it in other thread:

 

Cool deal!

 

Does anyone know how to adjust the handle bars on 18 road king special without having to take out the head light and clamp cover.

 

Simply remove the Road King emblem from the handlebar top clamp cover. You will then get access to 2 of the handlebar pinch bolts. Loosen the 2 pinch bolts and move the bars to your desired location then re-torque the pinch bolts to 16-20 ft/lbs

 

I have the 18 RKS and S&S slash cut 4 inch slip ons. Looking to get the bike louder. Looking at VH Power Duals or S&S Power Tune Duals. Anyone have any experience with these on the new M8? Make it noticeably louder?