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I'm casually looking at this model and see that you can replace all that hideous brushed stuff with black, so the headlight nacelle, primary cover, lowers, rocker box covers, etc. all look as if they can be replaced with OEM black painted parts
So I'm curious, has anyone had the nacelle off the Fat Boy yet to see what is behind the curtain? I'm wondering if it could be just left off and a more traditional looking headlight mounted. I'm headed out today to look at one in more detail and maybe ride one. Cosmetically, I'm OK with everything but that hideous looking nacelle and the brushed metal.
If you look online at h-d.com, Harley has a bunch of black parts for the current Fat Boy. For the OCD people like myself I got sick of black because I was always cleaning it so I enjoy the brushed. So much easier to keep clean - and it doesn't show dirt/dust like black. I'm just deciding what to do with those ugly gas caps.
I'm casually looking at this model and see that you can replace all that hideous brushed stuff with black, so the headlight nacelle, primary cover, lowers, rocker box covers, etc. all look as if they can be replaced with OEM black painted parts
So I'm curious, has anyone had the nacelle off the Fat Boy yet to see what is behind the curtain? I'm wondering if it could be just left off and a more traditional looking headlight mounted. I'm headed out today to look at one in more detail and maybe ride one. Cosmetically, I'm OK with everything but that hideous looking nacelle and the brushed metal.
The headlight is mounted to a frame that is nothing like the traditional bucket. You wouldn't want to expose it. Have a look, its just one allen head screw to take the trim off. I looked because I really want a cafe fairing for some wind abatement w/o a huge windshield. But the fairing won't work with the current headlight mount...
The headlight is mounted to a frame that is nothing like the traditional bucket. You wouldn't want to expose it. Have a look, its just one allen head screw to take the trim off. I looked because I really want a cafe fairing for some wind abatement w/o a huge windshield. But the fairing won't work with the current headlight mount...
thanks, the answer I was searching for
well maybe over time there will be some demand generated. I would probably still want the windshield which I think you can do according to the P&A but that whole style of the nacelle rubs me wrong, but that's just me
well maybe over time there will be some demand generated. I would probably still want the windshield which I think you can do according to the P&A but that whole style of the nacelle rubs me wrong, but that's just me
Heres a photo I took to show the fairing manufacturer.
I don't know that I'm buying a Fat Boy anytime soon or at all, but I looked at one today in the red/twisted cherry and that paint scheme on that bike is killer except for that hideous looking nacelle
there was a Breakout sitting next to is. So the breakout does not have fork covers or any kind of nacelle on or around the headlight and also has a different headlight. I'm thinking maybe, just maybe, you could ditch that nacelle completely on the Fat Boy and the fork covers and go naked and put that Breakout headlight on the Fat Boy. Just thinking. I may poke around the parts explosions and see if there are details there
they make a chrome speedometer housing, I would swap out everything I think now with the chrome...primary, rocker covers, etc.
then that would be great looking bike with that red background supporting it
I don't know that I'm buying a Fat Boy anytime soon or at all, but I looked at one today in the red/twisted cherry and that paint scheme on that bike is killer except for that hideous looking nacelle
there was a Breakout sitting next to is. So the breakout does not have fork covers or any kind of nacelle on or around the headlight and also has a different headlight. I'm thinking maybe, just maybe, you could ditch that nacelle completely on the Fat Boy and the fork covers and go naked and put that Breakout headlight on the Fat Boy. Just thinking. I may poke around the parts explosions and see if there are details there
they make a chrome speedometer housing, I would swap out everything I think now with the chrome...primary, rocker covers, etc.
then that would be great looking bike with that red background supporting it
A couple of problems with that idea. 1) The fork lowers (sliders) are different and don’t support the caps on the end. That would leave them looking unfinished and exposes the wipers I believe. 2) the lower triple tree has a very utilitarian, also unfinished look to it, and no hole for a headlight mounting block. It doesn’t even look to have a flat surface to drill and mount one.
It would be a lot of work. You’d probably have to at a minimum change the fork sliders and the lower triple tree to go to an exposed fork/no nacelle look. Also it takes away from the “fat” -ness of the bike. If anything I would think about going back to the previous models headlight and necelle.
Everybody has different taste, but to me it makes more sense to buy something else, because most of the approaches discussed in this thread involve an awful lot of expense after the purchase of a high priced bike. The brushed chrome and unique shape of the headlight nacelle make the Fatty different and attractive to lots of folks. The different, and somewhat futuristic, design is why I bought my 115th Fatty. I love customizing and making my bike my own, but fighting the original design rather than enhancing it costs lots o'money.
this is a good sanity checks, thanks for the thoughtful replies
I find it even somewhat absurd, for sure puzzling, that you can get into a standard Road King for essentially less money than a Fat Boy when you have to add saddle bags and a windshield
this is a good sanity checks, thanks for the thoughtful replies
I find it even somewhat absurd, for sure puzzling, that you can get into a standard Road King for essentially less money than a Fat Boy when you have to add saddle bags and a windshield
I love the look of the 115th Anniversary Fatboy and the close to 100 lbs less weight than the Roadking.
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2019 Fat Boy - Headlight Nacelle
