2009 Harley-Davidson Road Glide

The 2009 Harley-Davidson Road Glide retains its Shark Nose image, its power, and its touring comfort while providing the added benefits of stability and ride quality with the integration of the new frame. The good news doesn’t stop there either as minor upgrades throughout the bike take an already good platform and make it great. While style tweaks and new models tend to dominate the headlines of biker magazines and bring traffic into Harley-Davidson showrooms, the company decided to enhance the entire lineup of touring motorcycles with a completely redesigned frame and swingarm. This new backbone is welded robotically and was engineered to provide better structural support for bikes like the ’09 Road Glide while actually reducing the number of component parts which make up the frame. The goal of the touring motorcycle engineering team was to enhance the line so that there was no discernable wobble or vibration at [...]