This may be a bit long but I hope informative.
I completed a trip to Utah and back from Tennessee for the Road Glide National Rally, aka Sharkweek. Google it if you are not familiar with it. I was gone for 14 days, 4983 miles and 92 hours riding. I left home with 1389 miles and returned with 6372 miles. The bike is well broken in.

Temps were lows in the mid 50’s in Colorado and highs one afternoon of 111 in St George Utah. Speed limits of 80 mph in Utah and Oklahoma. We travelled to Utah on RT-66. If you want a taste of America, travel some of that if you can. Our return trip was up through Colorado and then down to New Mexico and across the plains back to Tennessee.

The bike performed very well.

Water temps maxed out a few times at 242 degrees. Once in hot rush hour traffic in Oklahoma City and also on the 111 day in Utah. On cooler days it ran in the 210 to 230 range.

The screen did do a reboot one time after startup, not sure why. One glitch where my ride info screen was kind of greyed out but a restart cured that. I had the screen set to high contrast and after I switched to the regular screen it went back to normal.

I do wish I could see oil pressure and oil temp on my screen.

I am pleased with my bike. I miss my lowers from the old bike in the rain but we only had one rain day out of the 14.

Bugs in Oklahoma are as big as nickels and hit hard at 80 mph. I’m still polishing their hits off the fairing.

I changed crankcase oil and primary oil in St George before the return trip.

The bike was comfortable and handled the trip perfectly.

To everyone that is having issues with their bikes, I’m sorry you are but I have to say Harley hit a home run with the new engine changes and weight adjustments. Handling in the turns is much better than my previous bike. Engine power is strong. Engine heat management is very good. I never experienced heat issues some other riders were having. The new screen gives good information and CarPlay worked perfectly. I dropped a cell signal a couple of times in remote Utah but it picked it back up within a few minutes.

I’m very happy with mine. I highly recommend looking at one if you are interested.



I wouldn’t trust those mpg numbers

Cool older motels. Very nice

Another very nice motel. Vintage but well preserved. Highly recommended.

Lots of sharks.

America!

Monument valley.

Somewhere in Colorado.

 

awesome sounding / looking trip and owner report ..thanks for sharing ! mine too has hit a high of 242 in a day that was over 100 F ..these are incredible offerings from HD

 

I’m curious if 242 is all we will see from the temp reading.

 

that was my exact thought the second I saw your comment on that..maybe like tire pressure..once it hits a certain threshold it changes to HI, so if temp exceeds 242 the next indicaior would be an alert or warning lamp..?? it's rare I find myself out riding in triple digits ambient temps, so ours passed that test with flying colors

 

Terrific info, and looks to be a great trip!

I have a 2022 107...have to say, I find the 2024's very tempting.

 

Great review and pictures. My 2024 RG gives way hig mpg numbers also. I hand calculate every fill up. It's off about 5 mpg high (Screen shows 48, hand cal is 43). I agree also, would like an oil temp and pressure reading. I don't need the air temp and date but I know the reason they don't have an oil temp reading, people freak.

 

Glad you had a great experience!

Now, about all of those sharks........

 

It’s nice to get a review like this. Too often, we post because we have issues that we need help fixing or just to bitch. It’s actually refreshing to read your trip report. As far as Oklahoma City, my experience was St Louis and Chicago were far worse! I love the older, privately owned, middle of nowhere motels. They are disappearing, like so much of what I thought was important to the American experience.

Thanks for the smile.

 

Remember that the “water temperature” has little importance on the engine temperature. The wet head cooling only cools the area around the exhaust valves to reduce heat to the rider, and what I found was that in hot stop and go traffic, it takes the heat from the head and blows it in your face,

 

Dime a dozen reminds me of white teslas.