Hey guys, Im new to the site and picked up my first Harley about 2 months ago so bear with me and some of my dumb questions.
I have an 05 Road King custom. Ive been thinking I would really like to change the hard leather bags to the standard Road King hard bags. Does anyone know if I would have a problem attaching those bags to a custom? Im pretty sure the frames are the same and I would just need different brackets. Has anyone done this?

 

This was just covered in another thread, only going the other direction, hard to leather.

Yes they will fit.

Mac

 

Thanks Mac,

Just after I posted this I found that other thread. [&o]

 

blukrom,

I never found the other post so I will respond... [sm=itsok.gif]

I have a 2005 RK and did the oposite...I took the hard bags off and put the leather covered plastic bags on. One reason I did this is because on my former bike...a '99 RK Classic I had the Sundowner seat which I loved. However when I put that Sundowner RKC seat on it rubbed the hard bags and left a blemish...which I didnt like. Plus I was to paranoid of scratching the bags.

The soft bags fit fine...I had to adjust the quick connect brackets to line up with the soft bags. See attached. I know for a fact that the hard bags will fit a RKC because a good friend of mine found a set on eBAY and runs them on his RKC. I hope that helps.

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