The lids
The speakers mount in the saddlebag lids, so the bags still open, still close, and still carry your gear.
Speaker lids and rear audio for Harley baggers, wired into a Cicada amplifier and tuned with the fairing so the whole bike plays as one system.
Fairing speakers fire at your chest. At speed, the wind takes its share before the sound gets to you. A second pair in the saddlebag lids fills in from behind, so the music sits around the rider and the passenger instead of coming from one spot.
It also lets the whole system play at the same volume with less strain on every speaker. Less strain is where clean comes from.
Two speakers up front. The bags add the rest.The speakers mount in the saddlebag lids, so the bags still open, still close, and still carry your gear.
Rear speakers need their own amplifier channels. On most builds that means one four-channel Cicada amp running the fairing and the bags together.
Power and signal run from the amplifier back to each bag, routed out of sight.
Front and rear are level matched and tuned together, so the bags support the fairing instead of fighting it.
The red Road Glide in the first clip is filmed from the bike to the far side of the lot. Tap it and turn your sound up.
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Some. The speaker sits in the lid, so the bag still closes and still carries gear, with a little less room at the top.
Often, yes, if your amplifier has channels to spare. Cicada also sells rear speaker add-on systems for exactly that. Tell us what is on the bike now and we will tell you what it needs.
That is one of the main reasons riders add them. Rear speakers put sound where the passenger sits.
Usually you need four channels instead of two. On most builds one four-channel amplifier runs both the fairing and the bags.