1
over the past few years my lady and I have talked about getting an older Honda Goldwing so we can go out together and be comfortable and not be hunched over for 4 hours.
This weekend, my grandfather in law, we started looking as a joke. We stumbled across a non running Goldwing in Methuen. Looked great, lots of little oem bits etc, all in great shape. I went and looked at it, it looked great, cosmetically it was great. Mechanically i was buying it with a visible starter solenoid/main fuse issue. Hoping that was the only issue i bought it. Its a 1985 Honda Goldwing Aspencade gl1200.
Trailered it home the next day and after about 35 minutes, some shrink tube,soldering and poking and prodding, shes alive. Took her for the first test ride last night. Shes runs lovely.
Its without a doubt a whole different riding style. I dragged the shit out of my foot boards a few times and obviously the weight difference from a 2012 cbr600rr to a 1985 Honda Golwing gl1200 Aspencade.
Even came with the elusive HondaLine Aspencade cover!
It should be fun, i am excited to have something easy to ride with the wife. that's the only purpose of this. Fun to ride though man, but itll never replace my CBR