@@romeparrilla8307 Thanks! I haven't been watching the market lately, but at a guess I'd say prices run in the range of $3k (USD) and up for a decent 400f these days. Of course you might get lucky with a cheap barn find, but those are very rare. Cheers!
I guess you get smarter when you get older , I sold my wing it’s too damn dangerous riding with dip-shits texting driving next to me , I miss it dearly
Amazing video thank u so much...meeting the owner of 2002 goldwing tomorrow to test drive it and at 57 years old was considering if it's heavy, bulky etc...after this video I guess I will go for it and buy it instead of a versys 1000 cc...thank u brother
I guess many “Goldwing Slayers” came and gone over the past 50 years but I think this time it's different. They are facing a locomotive behemoth compared to others in manufacturing and Honda needs to move upscale or get run over. Just my prediction. Btw, My GW has 153k and runs great.
I have a Chinese made SUV, zero problems, equivalent to any modern Korean or Japanese vehicle, somethings are actually better..... Resale value is equivalent to any other Korean or Japanese SUV after 2 years of ownership. Would I buy this motorcycle, a resounding yes if I was in the market for an extra large capacity tourer......I am sure the value would be retained as much as any other extra large capacity tourer....... Unfortunately a lot of people get tied up in brand snobbery........not looking at what parts the product is actually made of. Saying you you won't buy Chinese? The reality is every home has Chinese made products in their home from electronic items, clothing, linen, dinner sets, cutlery etc......... Hardware items, from screws, nuts and bolts electrical items etc.. So saying you won't buy Chinese today would only happen if you lived in a cave.........far away from civilisation..........
I can tell you right now I don't even have to watch the video. Chinese scooters only last a week anything as complicated as a 8-cylinder motorcycle will never be reliable from China
I had a 75 in high school I bought it used in 1979 and rode it year round I did have the top end rebuilt but other than that it was original and I loved it wish I still had it
I believe those exhaust tips are from Kuryakyn. They were on the bike when I bought it four years ago. I plan to replace them soon because as you can see, the chrome is peeling off. Cheers!
I am lucky enough to have two additional bikes at my disposal. A few years ago I got back into the sport with the purchase of a 1998 Gold Wing Valkyrie by Honda. Little did I know that this Valkyrie would spark a heretofore unknown interest with my younger 20 year old son with his entry into motorcycling. Fast forward to successful MSF training and then onto the classifieds. Bingo! Listed was a 2006 Suzuki Savage650/S40. The ideal Goldilocks motorcycle; not too big, and not too small. Just right! After riding all last season and nearly doubling the mileage, my son was eager to move onto a new ride. After due consideration he purchased a brand new leftover 2023 Indian Scout. So now along with my Valk, I can mix up my riding with either the Suzuki or the Indian. All three of our bikes bring a certain joy de vivre! Excellent video and thank you for posting and letting me chime in.
by the time the 1986 VFR appeared the whole VF series became antiquated and obsolete. next, the gen3 VFR made the gen2 VFRs antiquated within just a few years
Thanks for the video. I won't be buying a SOUO S2000 touring bike from China, I wont be alive when it has had 50 years of testing like the Honda Gold Wing.
I own a GL1500 se Goldwing and was a motorcycle mechanic for years and would really like to ride one of these Souo 2000 s the Souo will have to prove it's reliability
As an 8yo it was a gl1200 ltd that sparked the rider in my to life when I saw it back in the 80s. I've craved for the 1500 when that came out, but stuck to German and Austrian mopeds for convenience at 16 all the way till my 30th birthday and got my motorcycle license (still no car) with the intent to own a 1500. After some big German tourers and about 10y of riding I got my dream bike. Have daily driven it for years now and have heard all those things... I can ride it hard and love to blast past the fellow biker at the lights or the curves. Usually they are quite surprised how fast and nimble that "couch" is at the next light if they are fast enough....
Thanks for your ideas. For me I would say: Yes to the handle bar adjustment, cooling idea, and car tire on a wing. I have a car tire and it's made a tremendous difference. The one option that mekes sense to me would be; since the Goldwing is aTouring bike, they should come with a trailer hitch as standard equipment. that way you could attach a rack or trailer with ease. Many wingers do it anyway. The rest of your ideas are good as well.
This is what Goldwing should have done instead of what they changed to in 2018. This looks like the classic Wing. I like the style, don't know about the quality. Time will tell
that front end suspension design is the reason I sold my BMW. I tried for two years to get used to that front end that does not absorb breaking force energy. It makes a heavy bag feel heavier at slow speeds. My BMW K 1200 LT is the only motorcycle I ever dropped twice in parking once over the past 40 years because of that weird Front end when you use your brakes at slow speeds, like when you are in a parking lot. That breaking energy goes into the fork springs when you use the brakes. The front end compresses a little bit as the springs, absorb the energy, and your fork oil controls the rate of rebound from the springs. With the front end on the BMW, which is the same design. that this machine has, that energy does not go into the fork springs. The front end is not compress. All that weight of the motorcycle does not get dissipated into the springs. It just makes the bike feel like you have a wheelbarrow full of water and you have to hold the bike up with your legs. If you have the front wheel, turned a little because you’re in a parking lot maneuvering by turning the front end. I was at a motorcycle bike night, and I saw a group of BMW riders that had the same machine I had, I walked over and started talking to them about their machines. I told them that I dropped mine two times at slow speed in parking lots, they all started laughing and said “get used to it “everybody drops them “.. And they all showed me their machines damage from dropping them. All of the rollover bars were scuffed, all of their mirrors were scuffed from tipovers.
@@Tinfoilhat311 I had a Yamaha venture Royale for 16 years, I went to the BMW, K 1200 LT after that. I felt that I deserve to have the best at some time. It was a nice bike, it had adequate power. I thought it was gorgeous, black, it had an all day seat for me and my passenger. It was the best seat of the many dozens of motorcycles I have owned over the decades. Shaped like a horse saddle… The weird front end. No dive under breaking feature really made that bike a handful at slow speeds. I won’t go into all the flaws that that motorcycle had from the factory, such as, if I use the side stand, it would smoke oil out the exhaust on the restart, the final drives were failing around the world, and why dealer said they only fail on over the World, but the dealer said they only fail on overloaded bikes. I thought that was an odd statement, because two riders that rode the iron butt on BMWs together, they actually carried a spare final Drive unit. That’s a lot of weight to carry… it also had the most distorted windshield I ever owned. I complained to the dealer that it was optically distorted. He said he could get me a better windshield for $600 installed… I never listen to the radio, the intercom, the CB on any of my bikes. So I took out the six cd changer to give myself some more luggage capacity in the left saddle bag… using the rear brake at slow speeds, sounded like someone was doing the first cut on a brake drum on a brick leave. I complain to the dealer about that. He said, he can fix that for $750. I asked how would you do that. Aftermarket rotor and pads.. I ended up not using the rear brake at slow speed when there were people around because it was so loud. It was a head turner. And I did not like using the front brake at slow speeds because of how unstable the bike becomes with that energy not going into the fork springs… but the final straw was when I was on a downhill grade of paved road out in the boonies that was covered with fly ash cinders. I just touched my brakes going down that grade to make sure they were there, but they weren’t there. The ABS detected the gravel, and I had no breaks at all, nothing front and rear. I tried pumping the brakes, nothing. I was lucky there was Lucky there was a auto salvage yard that had a wire fence around the perimeter of the property that I was able to run into to stop only damaging my front fender.. when my new fender came in, I put that motorcycle up for sale and sold it.. I replaced it with a moto guzzi norge That had ABS also with a difference. There was a button on the dashboard that I could turn off the ABS or times when you are on gravel or wet grass or get caught in the snow which has happened to me several times over the 40 + years I commuted my motorcycle most of the eight, Snow, free months of the year here in hilly Western Pennsylvania.. I try to BMW, I gave it to years, I could not get used to it. That motorcycle was the most flawed motorcycle I ever owned, and I am on motorcycle number 108 and 109 right now counting all of my trials, bikes, dirt, bikes, dole, sports, café bikes, commuter, bikes, road, racing machines, and my big touring bikes.. so I went from a Yamaha Venture I owned for 16 years, so that BMW which I tried to fall in love with for two years, I went back to a Yamaha royal star venture, a neighbor had a GL 1800 Goldwing with 13 K miles on it for sale. I had never had a Goldwing before, so I thought I would try that… that was a perfect motorcycle after I replaced and upgraded the fork springs and the shock, spring, and went over the entire bike, which still had the original 16 year old tires on it. The clutch fluid came out, looking like an old melted chocolate milkshake, the brake fluid was never changed either, but it wasn’t that bad looking.. it was not as roomy as I am used to with the royal star ventures, but it was the smoothest over powered motorcycle I ever owned. And it was a gas hog. It seemed like the gas gauge went from four, 2/4 tank pretty quick. I sold the Goldwing after two years, I actually have a video on my channel of the only ride I recorded while riding my Goldwing.,, it was a perfect motorcycle, except for the common failure of the four way flashers are unit. I had to drive over 100 miles home one night in the dark with the four ways on… but I just didn’t like working on it. It is a six hour job at a Honda dealer just to change the air filter. I thought that was ridiculous until I did the job myself. I was a motorcycle mechanic when I was younger in three different dealerships… it turns out that a dealer charging over $600 just to change the air filter is a fair price to pay because that is a lot of work, removing lots and lots of plastic starting at the instrument, panel, panels in front of your knees, the cover that looks like a gas tank, the seat, then you start into that mass of relays and cables and wiring under that cover that looks like a gas tank, you have to get all that out-of-the-way, just to get access to the air cleaner housing. If you pay your dealer to do that job every 10,000 miles on a GL 1800 Goldwing. After 100,000 miles, you will have paid your dealer over $6000 just the labor charge for changing the air cleaner 10 times… I can do the work, but I don’t want to. So I sold my Goldwing when it was perfect, fresh tires, all fluids changed, suspension upgraded… And I went back to my third Yamaha royal star venture which I have at this moment. You can get at everything without removing plastic usually. I can get at the starter, the slave cylinder, the stator, The water pump, and the clutch using the tool kit tools in the parking lot of a motel if I have to.. The thought of having to do that on the Goldwing, 1000 miles from home, that is why I sold it.. perfect, but tough to work on.. if you can’t do the work, you have to marry the dealer, and labor dental is $130 an hour.. by the way, my motor Guzzi, was my fourth one, and they are as simple as a VW beetle to work on. I have just under 200,000 combined miles on my four guzzis, they never stranded me. Mine had heated grips with three different temperatures, electric windshield, single-sided, swingarm, ABS that could be turned off, and if there was a problem with the ABS, the system automatically reverted to conventional brakes... I believe that is why many of the police departments in Germany of all places have switched to moto guzzi police bikes..
