From: snag_one@msn.com   
      
   On 10/28/2025 5:20 PM, Snag wrote:   
   > On 10/28/2025 4:19 PM, badgolferman wrote:   
   >> On 10/28/2025 14:01, Snag wrote:   
   >>> On 10/28/2025 12:00 PM, badgolferman wrote:   
   >>>> On 10/28/2025 10:15, Mohran Zamdani wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> Park anything smaller than a Gold Wing and some illegal Democrat will   
   >>>>> come along and steal it and put it in their car trunk.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> You're right!  So I bought one...   
   >>>> https://ibb.co/0nrsBqh   
   >>>>   
   >>>> By the way... all the displays, logos and manuals on my motorcycle say   
   >>>> Goldwing, not Gold Wing.   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>>    I hate to say it , but that's the ugliest 'wing I ever saw . They   
   >>> used   
   >>> to be - I guess the word that fits best is svelte . That just looks   
   >>> overweight and clumsy IMO .   
   >>   
   >> Mine is a 2002 Honda GL1800A Goldwing.  If you mean older then it must   
   >> have been even older than the 2001 model which was the first year of   
   >> this design.   
   >>   
   >> The Goldwing is a touring motorcycle.  By that definition they are made   
   >> for the highway and to eat up miles, not zip around town or the track   
   >> like a street bike.  It's a comfortable and refined machine. Even so,   
   >> the Goldwing is incredibly agile for its 950 lb. weight.  The engine is   
   >> low on the frame and the fuel tank is actually underneath the seat so   
   >> its center of balance is low.  That makes it quite zippy around town   
   >> anyway.   
   >>   
   >> The redesigned 2018+ Goldwings are about 100 lbs. lighter and handle   
   >> incredibly well with their redesigned double wishbone suspension.  Maybe   
   >> that would be more to your taste.   
   >>   
   >   
   >    I ride a 1990 FLHTCU ... and I have a 2009 XL1200 Low that's been   
   > converted with a DNA trike axle . I seldom ride the Ultra , a mile of   
   > dirt road to the highway and less than ideal *parking conditions - we   
   > live in a clearing out in the woods 10 miles from the nearest town .   
   >    *I'll be making a bike parking area that's much more user friendly   
   > with the next load of gravel I have delivered . Gotta remove a couple   
   > more trees to make that happen .   
      
      I should have mentioned that my Ultra has had the rear suspension   
   modified to eliminate that dreaded "Harley Wobble" . There's a 3rd heim   
   link under the transmission to the frame making it a 3 point mount . The   
   stock swingarm pivots - Harley calls them "cleve blocks" are a   
   steel/plastic/rubber/silicone composite device . Mine are custom   
   machined chromoly steel/Ampco 45 aluminum bronze units that are a direct   
   drop-in replacement for the stock part . All parts except the heim link   
   were designed and fabricated in my shop .   
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