I absolutely love my 2005 goldwing ABS. I keep thinking I'll trade it for a 2023 DCT, but after seeing this video, forgetaboutit! Really enjoy your videos!
Bought 05 two years ago as my first bike and I’m sixty one. Dropped it about half a dozen times slow maneuvering. I love the crash bars..nothing but the bars touch the ground. Since then I’ve learned to make figure eights within 18’+38’parking spaces. Wanted to see just how fast it would go. 130 was about all I could get out of her. Just had to see what she could do. Keep it between the lines and watch out for critters and goofball drivers
I just bought a 01 goldwing last year love the bike had a 1500 se model for six years 1800 much faster throttle a bit to quick had to get used to it. But love the bike side bags a little smaller than the 1500 and Trunk by the way When I brought the 1800 wing I didn't notice the lack of Foot warmer doors near the feet. Spoiled by the se 1500.
These are such awesome bikes. My hang-up though with the ‘wing is it’s ostensibly an automobile in sophistication, gadgetry and so forth which equates to much more maintenance and service. There’s something about that which detracts from what I like about motorcycling.
There isn't any additional maintenance and you don't have to use the gadgets. The only thing I use is the cruise control and sometimes reverse. I never touched any of the other stuff because like you, I ride to get away from all that.
Have you noticed any of the “wobble” with the front end or any kind of “dive” in braking or turns that has some owners getting the Traxxion Dynamics upgrades? Some say it starts around 40k miles & sure enough there’s lots of Wings for sale from various years with late 30k mileage. Just trying to decide which year is best for me between 2002 & 2017.
I haven’t noticed anything like that at all. But you definitely want to get the suspension settings right if someone’s riding on the back and you have luggage.
@@tgmotorider.narratinglifeo3480 Thank you for responding. Traxxion has a great video on RU-vid & what they show with stock fork flex blew my mind. It’s not a cheap upgrade but what they do & how the riders compliment their products is impressive to the point that I’m either looking to get a Wing that has the Traxxion upgrades or hoping to find an inexpensive Wing like you did that I can then add the upgrade. It’s good to hear that you haven’t had any handling issue with yours at those miles. These are amazing bikes. Thanks again. Hope that all your future rides are safe & enjoyable. 👍
Checking with your local dealers you’ll see some come through in their used stock. We have a lot of dealers here in the St. Louis area. You can also check CycleTrader.
Built by alien engineers, but apparently they don't understand that in America our highways are 80mph minimum crusing speed, and you need a real overdrive. Not a pseudo overdrive that seems good on paper. Of the all the bikes made in Japan, how did they mess up the gear ratios on a Goldwing? All that torque and still screaming down the road at 80mph at high rpm? I am leaving this comment in hopes that others will complain loudly about the lack of overdrive on all Japanese motorcycles.
