Road Glide Harley Davidson Foot Boards
Pan, insert, or the whole kit?
A footboard is built from parts that wear and parts that don't. The pan is the flat platform itself (Harley-Davidson 50500632 and 50500633 are the bare rider pans, right and left), and the insert sits on top of it and takes the actual footfall. Buy either on its own to repair a board that's cracked, corroded or simply tired. Buy a hinge bolt (50674-05, 50635-82A) instead if the board itself is sound and only the pivot has worn.
This page also carries named style kits: Adversary, Kahuna, Dominion, Empire, Switchback, Redline, Carbide, Airflow, Endgame and Streamliner. Each one is a complete pan, insert and mounting hardware in one box, built for changing the look of the bike rather than fixing what's already on it. Nothing in a kit's own title says which job it does. Work out which one you actually need before you order: a full kit costs a good deal more than the pad or bolt that's actually failed.
What a board does that a peg doesn't
The heel-toe shift lever and the rear brake pedal don't bolt straight to the frame on a board-equipped bike. Both mount to brackets that are part of the footboard assembly itself: 33630-07A and 42431-11 are those bracket assemblies, and 50500751, 50500753, 50500738 and 50500737 are the painted mounting brackets that carry each lever. A footpeg has no equivalent part, because a peg bike shifts with the toe alone and mounts its brake pedal separately. That's most of why the two ranges barely share a part number, and why swapping a board for pegs touches more of the bike than the footrest on its own.
Moving to pegs rather than replacing a board like-for-like is covered on our Harley-Davidson footpegs page instead of here.
Will it fit your bike?
Fitment tags on this page cover Breakout, Dyna, Fat Boy, Heritage, Low Rider, Road Glide, Softail, Street Bob, Street Glide and Touring. There's no Sportster tag anywhere on this shelf. Don't rely on the filter to rule a board in or out for one: check the part number against your bike, or ask the parts desk.
Mini Footboard Kits (50500109, 50500124, 50500139, 50500144) are the version most often tried on a bike that didn't come with boards from the factory. Forum reports on that exact fit flag two things worth checking before you order: whether the mounting tab clears the frame channel, and whether there's still boot room under the heel-toe shifter once it's fitted. Neither is something we can confirm from a part number alone. Check with us first.
Grounding out is normal, not a fault
A footboard is wide and sits further out than a peg, so on a hard lean it touches down first. Riders discussing this on forums call it an early-warning system, not a fault. It tells you where the limit is before anything harder scrapes. What actually keeps it safe is the hinge. Riders report the board folding up on contact rather than digging in, which is why a board can be leaned harder than a rigid part without unsettling the bike.
Mount height can also be adjusted at the frame if ground clearance is a genuine concern on your bike. That's a job for a workshop, not something to take from a forum thread.
What else you're likely to need
Heel guards protect the shifter side specifically, because that's where a rider's heel actually rests on a hinged board: rider (50500225) and passenger (50606-06) versions are sold separately. Passenger comfort has its own family too. Reach and offset mount kits move a passenger board forward or back for a shorter or taller pillion (50789-99B, 50500403A), and passenger footboard covers such as Script (50782-91), Road King Classic (50246-00) and Concho (50193-96) snap over an existing board instead of replacing it, for anyone after the look without the fitting job.
If you're changing the rider board and the heel-toe shifter with it, boot size decides how it feels more than personal taste does. A run of separate forum threads all land on the same point, and more than one notes that Harley-Davidson doesn't appear to publish the shift lever's length, so there's no spec sheet to check it against beforehand. Large boots, or a leg that doesn't bend the way it used to, are both good reasons to ask the parts desk whether an extended-reach lever is the better starting point.
Every part here is genuine Harley-Davidson stock, not an aftermarket copy, for sale at 10% off RRP with free UK delivery available. If you're not sure whether a listing is a repair part or a complete kit, ask the parts desk before you order. The fuller range, including the fitment tags and service parts behind it, sits in our Harley-Davidson parts hub.