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Sep 11, 2017 | 08:39 PM

fshaw

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Batwing Fairings

Bought a 1990 FHLS this summer for a good price. It currently has a plastic windshield on it and I'm thinking about getting a batwing fairing from a swap meet to replace it. Anyone know what year fairings are compatible? I'm guessing the mounting hardware is more the issue than the fairing.

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Frank

Sep 11, 2017 | 08:55 PM

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Number of them on eBay right now. Our British cousin Mr. Brown put one on his bike of the same vintage. He'll be around shortly. (They keep funny hours)

Sep 11, 2017 | 10:09 PM

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Sep 12, 2017 | 06:58 AM

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Number of them on eBay right now. Our British cousin Mr. Brown put one on his bike of the same vintage. He'll be around shortly. (They keep funny hours)

I heard that, pardon? Awake now!

Owned my 1990 bike from new, when H-D sold a batwing kit for the FLHS. It was so darned expensive that I didn't buy one! It was the glass-fibre shovel batwing, (not the moulded plastic one on the other Touring models at that time) with suitable mounting brackets and came colour-matched.

Instead I bought a secondhand late shovel batwing, made my own mounting brackets and painted it birch white. That was a couple of years after I bought the bike. I was lucky in that mine was in excellent condition. There are aftermarket batwings available nowadays, for Road Kings etc, which can probably be adapted.

IMHO any glass-fibre batwing will do, but you are right about the hardware. I got that with mine, but it looked like too much effort to adapt it to fit, which is why I made a new set. Having a brother with sheet-metal expertise and a workshop made the job a lot easier!

Sep 12, 2017 | 07:22 AM

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There are aftermarket batwings available nowadays, for Road Kings etc, which can probably be adapted.

Most of the aftermarket batwings are made for a radio, and will not clear the guages.

Sep 12, 2017 | 07:30 AM

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I haven't studied them, only noted their existence. Radio? Why would anyone possibly feel the need?! Surely we get all the 'music' we could possibly want from under the gastank.....

Sep 13, 2017 | 04:43 PM

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Most of the aftermarket batwings are made for a radio, and will not clear the guages.

Mine has an outer fairing from a "05 FLHTC and what looks like the original windshield brackets and some spacers. I'll go outside and take some pics in a minute.