This nameplate was introduced for the 2010 model year as a more custom-styled version of Harley-Davidson’s Road Glide touring bagger, identified by the FLTRX designation. It kept the model’s frame-mounted sharknose fairing and long-distance Touring platform, but was positioned with a sleeker, lower, more customized look than the standard Road Glide. Harley-Davidson’s own model-code references and historical parts catalogs show the Road Glide Custom in production from 2010 through 2013, after which it disappeared from the lineup. For 2012, Harley-Davidson updated the model with the larger Twin Cam 103 engine, and the nameplate continued only through the 2013 model year before being replaced in the broader Road Glide family by later variants such as the Road Glide Special. Enthusiasts remember it as a short-lived but important bridge between the classic sharknose touring formula and the more style-focused bagger direction Harley-Davidson pursued in the years that followed.
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