I'm not the guy to do this to my bike but I am curious as to if the new fairing can bet retrofitted to older Road Glides? Anyone have dealer parts lists?

 

Haven't seen one yet! It is however the duty of owners of older Harleys to prove we can retrofit new stuff to older bikes. We may need a volunteer to try retrofitting an RG fairing.....

 

At a minimum, you'd have to figure out what to do with that big hole where the audio/nav display goes. You cant buy that for your bike because its designed for the CAN BUS/HD Lan architecture which your bike is not wired for, and at a minimum would require a complete rewiring of the bike.

 

Not taking the cost into account the mod may be easier than for adopting a newer SG batwing to an older model. A new SG requires a complete new uppers, lowers, trees, wheel, fender, axel, and light bar to name a few of the items. The RG is bolted to the frame so a small mod maybe that all is needed. The frames are not changed so a direct bolt on May be possible. The entire front end can remain including, fender, wheel and axle, trees, uppers, lowers and gauge trim. I think an easy change and very doable.

 

I test rode one and spent a lot of time looking it over at sturgis this year.

I suspect you could but you would need to do the inner fairing as well.

Which leads into the radio delima. Not certain an aftermarket radio will fit the opening and may look a bit weird even if you used a radio with a screen. So you may need the new boom radio and i an not certain it will plug into an old harness given the new can bus system.

I am certain someone will try. The wind buffeting is almost as bad as my 04 & my 12 and the head light look like that robot on futurama.

Your$ your bike. The new front fairing is going to have to grow on me for a while.

Now if y o u want to talk about swaping in the new front forks and front triple trees. Im listening...

 

This can be adaptable as guys are already working on it.

 

Short answer - yes. Anything is possible.

Right answer - yes, but you would probably spend less money by selling your bike and buying a new road glide. Less headaches anyway.

 

Are you sure the frame has not changed? The local stealer indicated all touring 2014 up have newly designed frames as part of the Rushmore project.

 

Now I haven't looked closely at a newer SG but what am I missing? How and why exactly would a swap to a newer fairing require a new wheel, fender, axle, and particularly tire? Is the tire integral to the fairing somehow?

 

The entire front end of a 2014 is different with zero interchangeability with a pre 2013. Eg: a 2014 fender will not bolt to an earlier model, the lower tubes will not either as well as the inner fairing, or even the two piece light rack. The tubes are of a larger diameter and spaced out wider.
The wind shield and chrome trim are not interchangeable.

This even goes in reverse for earlier bike parts to a new 2014 model. Having said that you can switch the entire complete only front end between the years. The gooseneck bearings have a small modification and are adjusted differently, but the Frames are the same.