I have a 96 Evo Road King and I am trying to work out the differences between different years' Road King trees and/or nacelles and handlebar cover.

In short I started by wanting to mount the handlebars on risers as per this post/image:

https://www.hdforums.com/forum/7956281-post15.html

It turns out the handlebar cover is a Harley part which does not fit the earlier Road King due to differences I am not clear on yet. The alternative is drilling out the old one, as per:

http://www.moccsplace.com/images/harley/riser/riser.htm

of buying an expensive Carlini item, as per:

http://www.carlinidesign.com/Harley-...pter-1-25.html

Which fit 1.25" and 1.50" bars

Contradictorily, the Carlini says '94 up' where as Mocc says the two ages are not interchangeable and the nacelles have different curves/mouldings.

Throw into the mix the Road King Custom and you have yet another nacelle/clamp cover set up, so perhaps there are three variants; early (pre-97), late and Custom?


OK, I'm going to be difficult and say in a perfect world I'd like a Road King Custom chrome windshield *AND* a handlebar clamp cover that allows for pull back risers or Deuce-style drag bars. I'd like a just little windshield that took the wind off my chest.

At present, that looks like I'd have to buy a RKC nacelle, cover and spear just to get the Chrome Windshield ... but are the later nacelles and covers backwardly compatible with the Evo, or are there underlying differences with the triple tree fork yokes?

Did they change the trees during the model changes as well?

I might be cheaper to get something beaten up and chromed ...

I'm planning an overhaul of the front end and would like to do this all at the same time.

I appreciate the Evo RK is starting to enter the Sargasso Sea between obsolete and not yet collectable, and it seems choices and customer parts etc are become harder to find and it's dropped off the aftermarket radar, but it's a perfect good motorcycle with an engine I know is good and so I like it well enough to stick with it for a while.

Could not find any threads which cover this and don't have part books at hand ... could be useful for other owners to know.

To get the later nacelle and handbar cover is it necessary to change the triple trees too?

Thanks

For reference, I see Glide Pro also do a handlebar fairing for the Kings now; here. Which isn't bad but look a little bit Kawasaki.

The 'look' has been done before, a long time ago, with the Royal Enfield Continental GT which, incidentally, had a lot more practical nacelle with built in speedo.

How many times have I wished I did not have to look down to check whether my zipper was done up at 70 mph in traffic, just to check speed/oil or indicator lights!

 

You can research triple trees etc on Ronnies Microfiche website, which will enable you to check part numbers, year by year. That will let you identify when those parts changed and get you a little closer to answering your question.

 

Did you check the new royal enfield continental GT ????
Here is the official website - http://royalenfield.com/continentalgt/

 

Hi Emi and welcome to HDF from the UK. I started riding bikes when those original 250cc Continental GTs were still around, but they were just so expensive! Unfortunately the current 500cc GT doesn't have that same instrument nacelle, a beautiful aluminium casting, which would cost a lot to reproduce today.

HB, the predecessor to your RK was my FLHS which doesn't have the problem you suffer from, but does have the speedo and tacho, plus other stuff, mounted above the headlight, in a single unit.

 

being a former rk custom owner, I can tell you that you really don't want the chrome flyscreen. it doesn't take the wind off of your chest, in fact it really directs it right at your chest/face....

I took mine off and replaced it with the handlebar cover from the stock road king. it took 2 parts: the handlebar cover, and the chrome spear.

as far as the risers go, have you looked at the street slammer setup? it has a cover with holes cut out to allow for the integrated risers on the handlebars.