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The Reason Behind This Project

5 years ago, I had a high-speed (approx. 60 mph), near-head-on collision with a drunken pedestrian in the Slave Lake region, between High Prairie and McLennen. This resulted mainly in damage to my inner and outer fairings and crash bar, which I fixed myself. Not a pretty fix-up, but cheap and I've ridden the bike that way for 5 years.

The Road Glide has served me well for over 100,000 miles and I'm now planning to take it a little easier on that trusty, old work horse. It's role will now be reduced somewhat - mainly to multi-day trips, where a bike with good carrying capacity and creature comforts are important factors. For the everyday (and evening), around-town stuff, I've got an '07 Street Bob on order, due to arrive in April.

Now that the Road Glide has reached a semi-retirement status, it seems to me a good time to freshen up its appearance, so it can still compete, looks-wise, with it's new stable mate. In an odd way, it seems more important now for it to look good. If not, it might tend to get neglected. You know how it is with a blemished bike. When you're riding it every day it's just fine but, if you don't, every time you look at it, your eye is drawn to the nicks in the paint, the damage here and there... it sorta gets depressing after awhile.

So I started looking into how much it would cost to give the old gal a face-lift. Along the way, I came across a new set of engine guards and speaker covers real cheap, so I picked those up. Then I priced a new inner and outer fairing and found the price ($418 and $452 Cdn respectively) to be bearable.

But how much to paint the outer fairing in the original, 95th Anniverary colour scheme? Well, from HD - since there are no such painted fairings in stock - it would add $1,200 to the $452 price tag. Ouch.

So I went to a local paint shop recommended to me for their good work. They could do it for $300. Hey, that's pretty good - so good, in fact, that I decided to bite the bullet and get the entire bike repainted.

And that's how this project got started. Got the inner and outer fairings in and had to get into that electrical harness to remove the inner fairing. That's where taking a few pictures (okay, a lot of pictures) seemed like a good idea - just so I could figure out how to put things back together later. If you're doing such a job yourself, you might find them (and the audio commentary) handy too.


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The Reason Behind This Project

5 years ago, I had a high-speed (approx. 60 mph), near-head-on collision with a drunken pedestrian in the Slave Lake region, between High Prairie and McLennen. This resulted mainly in damage to my inner and outer fairings and crash bar, which I fixed myself. Not a pretty fix-up, but cheap and I've ridden the bike that way for 5 years.

The Road Glide has served me well for over 100,000 miles and I'm now planning to take it a little easier on that trusty, old work horse. It's role will now be reduced somewhat - mainly to multi-day trips, where a bike with good carrying capacity and creature comforts are important factors. For the everyday (and evening), around-town stuff, I've got an '07 Street Bob on order, due to arrive in April.

Now that the Road Glide has reached a semi-retirement status, it seems to me a good time to freshen up its appearance, so it can still compete, looks-wise, with it's new stable mate. In an odd way, it seems more important now for it to look good. If not, it might tend to get neglected. You know how it is with a blemished bike. When you're riding it every day it's just fine but, if you don't, every time you look at it, your eye is drawn to the nicks in the paint, the damage here and there... it sorta gets depressing after awhile.

So I started looking into how much it would cost to give the old gal a face-lift. Along the way, I came across a new set of engine guards and speaker covers real cheap, so I picked those up. Then I priced a new inner and outer fairing and found the price ($418 and $452 Cdn respectively) to be bearable.

But how much to paint the outer fairing in the original, 95th Anniverary colour scheme? Well, from HD - since there are no such painted fairings in stock - it would add $1,200 to the $452 price tag. Ouch.

So I went to a local paint shop recommended to me for their good work. They could do it for $300. Hey, that's pretty good - so good, in fact, that I decided to bite the bullet and get the entire bike repainted.

And that's how this project got started. Got the inner and outer fairings in and had to get into that electrical harness to remove the inner fairing. That's where taking a few pictures (okay, a lot of pictures) seemed like a good idea - just so I could figure out how to put things back together later. If you're doing such a job yourself, you might find them (and the audio commentary) handy too.


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