I just want to pose the question.

I have not made it to the dealership to see the 16's in person. But, I have been to the Harley web site several times looking at all the touring bikes.

I have been riding my 2009 Road King for six years and have be waiting on the re-release of the Road Glide Ultra.

I sure hope the new paint schemes look better in person. In the touring line the only way to get a solid color bike is either the Street Glide or Road Glide standards. Except for the hard candy gold and the black hard candy with the what I guess they want to call flames.

Then there is the subject of putting this artwork on the lids of the saddle bags verses the lowers.

The Street Glide and Road Glide Specials, It looks like they got a little confused, the stripes below the fuel tank look like something that belongs but once you get above the bottom of the fuel tank it looks like they kinda got lost and revert to the stripes for a Ultra or a Road King. Either way the stripes on top don't go with the stripes on bottom.

The other paint accent that stands out is the Swash or whatever you want to call it. It just doesn't look like it belong.

On a final not, when you only come out with 6 or 7 color choices per model and then you do something strange with three of them, what are you thinking.

I just want to open this up for discussion.

I have plenty more to say on the paint and color schemes for this year but this is about as much typing as I like to do at one time.


Enjoy!!!!

 

I agree, not liking any of the graphics at all. When the colors were released a few weeks ago, I was excited to see the hard candy gold, but the graphics just ruin it. Mostly due to the design on the fairings. And the RG is the worst of them. Couldn't they at least follow the lines of the fairing?

I I were in a financial position to get a new ride, I would go after a road glide standard with no graphics or pin stripes. And would lean to finding a left over 15.

I guess the non plain 16 paint that is most appealing to me is the black and silver on the RGU.

 

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I like a couple of the 16's color schemes but nothing that I would care to go to the dealership and see.

 

I have been waiting for the RGU. I think the striping is fine, but not excited enough about the combo colors and would probably just wind up with black. The grey/black combo is nice, but it is boring. The RGS pinstripes look terrible, though less so with the velocity red, I think. I'd have to see the charcoal pearl RG in person, but probably would go with black, there, too.


I an RG I'd opt for a 2015 in mysterious red, I think. RGS would be black 2015.

 

Notice the picture below, Below the fuel tank I.E. front fender, side covers, saddle bag lower. Note the sharp pointed stripes of the tried and true graphics of the Road Glide transferred to the Street Glide. Now notice the strips on the tank and fairing, something much closer to a Ultra or and electra Glide. The sharp edges of the lower graphics does not go with the flowing pin stripes used on the fairing and the tank. The would have been better off leaving the strips off the fairing and tank.




The same applies to the Road Glide the curved flowing stripes on the tank and on the fairing has nothing in common the sharp edgy stripes on the fender, side covers and saddle bags.

 

I.M.O One of the better combinations. But, it still looks like a transplanted color scheme from a Ultra. The art department should have been paying attention during the wind tunnel testing and applied the way the air moves over the bike to the paint lay out.




I Guess the CVO Guys were paying attention during Wind Tunnel testing. I guess you get what you pay for ($40,000.00) But for $25,000.00 I expect a little more.

One other thing I noticed, all the fine line pin stripe tires are gone.

 

The bullet silver with the pinstripe is nice. But most of any other "scheme" jobs on the touring bikes are pretty lame. and the flame jobs look just as tacky as they always have. All the new "satin" and denim colors are pretty ugly too if you ask me. But I really like the silver bullet/ vivid black two tone on the 2015 low riders, a little less black than that scheme on the touring bikes.

 

Gotta agree.... The colors themselves aren't all that bad but the graphics are cheesy looking and don't flow with the lines of the bikes @ all.

 

The purple and black is cool...