When buffering in the face question.
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That RK is great for short trips 200-300 miles max. You're just too beat up for the wind after that. Fact is, RG is meant to cut the wind and end that beating your body takes. I'm about to do 600 miles a day for 7 days with a weekend stop. My friend has a RK, same fairing but he ain't bringing it. He's taking his RG for the very same purpose. You have a beautiful bike, not knocking it. If you were 25 not problem, hell, a Dyna with no fairing would be okay, but you just get beat up fighting that windshield.
I've put 10's of thousands of miles on my Bat, Shark and 2 Road Kings..Shark nose is by far the most comfortable for wind management..we live in the notoriously windy Columbia River Gorge area and use the highway a lot and with non stop of tractor / trailer traffic on I84..the combination of high winds + interstate trucking traffic = pucker factor of 10 and the RG provides a calming confident demeanor compared to the other models..it just slices and carves thru the turbulence like no other...HD nailed this one correctly
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I cut my stock RK windshield down so the top of it is about the middle of my nose. I have no problems in the wind and I have over 52k miles. I wear a full face helmet most of the year and a half helmet with no windshield during the summer.
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Like others have said, the fork fangs work the best. Combined with the windshield and the "dog dish" under the triple tree, I get very little, if any, buffeting, even at 70 plus. The fangs are the only thing that eliminated the buffeting when I run with the windshield. At least on the blacked out bikes, the fangs don't stick out like a sore thumb as much as they do on the chromed out bikes. JMHO
In the summer, I remove the windshield, fangs, and soft lowers. With "clean wind" I get no buffeting.
In the summer, I remove the windshield, fangs, and soft lowers. With "clean wind" I get no buffeting.
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what fangs are these? Harley doesnt sell blacked out fangs.I found some on Amazon that are black and look like harleys.
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Last I knew, Harley only sells the fangs in chrome. Some people buy them and have them powder coated black for their blacked out bikes. JES sells black powder coated fangs as well as chrome. I went with the black JES fangs, and I like them, they work well.
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