Suggest renting a bike for the weekend and put it through its paces. My dealer let's you rent for the weekend and the end of the first day you can change to a different ride for the second day.

Might want to ride the SGS and RKS, as both have the 114 motor. I suggest the King Special as well, as it has similar looks to the Heritage, and you can add a detachable fairing and tourpak for the long haul.

 

I just did the exact same move, but did not trade in the Heritage...riding both, but do so love my new Street Glide Special. Only had it since Daytona Bike week and have put on almost 2k (while being out of town without a bike for the last 3+ weeks). If you have read many of my posts you know I'm sort of a accessories Junkie. Well I have also added a bunch of thiings to my Glide. I had gotten a 5k off MSRP but put almost that much back on through the dealer for Items such as passing Lamps, reach seat, color matched King Tour-Pak with all black hinges and latches, Passenger Foot Boards, Sadde Bag Guards and more. For a complete list of what I did and added plus pics, go to: https://www.hdforums.com/forum/touri...da-silver.html

Edit: Never did address the cons to the SGS. 1. On the stock model the rear lights are the pits...almost non existent and the headlight and signal lights are not LEDs. 2. Can't understand why the gas flip up cover seems to open the wrong way. 3. The bike is kind of "plain Jane" as there is no embelishment trim. 4. The Infotainment system is good but without the WHIM a lot of the funtionality of the Boom GTS is going to waste.

 

Frank, how did you find room in your garage/carport for a 2nd bike, lol. Was surprised when I saw your profile pic with a second bike. You had spent many hours working that Heritage and getting it custom to your liking. I am curious how you worked the $5K off on the SGS unless you're a good negotiator and/or they had plenty on the showroom floor. I also plan to spend heavy dollars on accessories right off so maybe I can leverage that.

 

Well, nothing wrong with that 114 although I'm perfectly happy with my 107. I too use the Sena in my helmet through the Zumo for tunes. Nothing wrong with that SGS -- great bike. Me, I'm a Road King guy, grin.

 

The batwing bikes are not immune to condensation in the instruments. Perhaps not as widely reported as the Softails, but that issue could potentially follow you on the Street Glide nonetheless.

 

First I had been toying with the idea of moving up to a turing bike for a while although I was, and am, very happy with my Cherry. I had thought a lot about adding a Fairing to the Heritage, but I could not get the kind of sound equipment and Nav system I wanted in an aftermarket Fairing.

When my son came down for Bike Week, I rode his '16 Glide and was further motivated. While he was down, on the first Saturday of Bike Week, we were visiting the various Dealerships to check out their inventory and the vendor activities. We were visiting Seminole Harley where I was actually looking to sit on an Ultra Limited Low but they only had an older one. After a lot of looking and conversatioon with both the Salesman and the Sales Manager, who immediately offered an UNSOLICITED Bike Week special 5K off MSRP, I finally agreed to a test ride and that sort of convinced me to buy the SGS. However, before doing so, I checked with my more local dealer (Destination Daytona) to see if they also offered the 5K off MSRP deal. Nope, they would not. So on Monday, after making my list of add ons I wanted to order with the bike and a lot of back and forth phone conversations on Sunday with the "Chrome Guy", I rode over and pulled the trigger. My out the door price with the add ons I ordered was just under the original MSRP. Of course you have to add in the Dealer prep, Doc fees, Tag and Title, Tire road Hazzard coverage and GAP insurance, etc. for a toatal of just about 30K. They included the first Service free and a one year added membership to HOG International with a gift box containing a HOG Patch, Pin and a Gremlin bell. I know...whoopie do!

Picked the Bike up on Tuesday morning. I took it out of the building and immediately around the back to the CD booth where I had most of the add on rear lighting installed. Then took it directly over to the Suspension Technologies Booth at Destination Daytona to have the bike lowered. On Wednesday went back over to the Suspension Technologies Booth to have the reversing pully installed, followed by having Magnaflow Slip-ons installed, CD pro-beam LED headlight/passing lamps installed and Pin Striping by Brody. Of course I added all of the other accesories over the next few weeks.

As I said, I'm keeping the Heritage and plan to ride both. I also have a 2006 Yamaha V-star 650 that my Lady is learning to ride on. Hopefully, if she does well and gets her license , she will get to ride Cherry and the Yam will go bye-bye.


3 Bikes and 2 cars

Cherry and Big Sister stacked up

The Yam in our sitting area, hopefull not for too long


Yes, the carport is very full.

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