HenryJLittlefinger posted:

A couple of my friends just bought a house in Maine that was apparently built between 1763 and 1783 and in the giant attached barn is a pair of early 80s Goldwings. They are still trying to figure out if the bikes stay with the house.

BabelFish posted:

This last year I
1. Became an actual father
2. Bought an NC750
3. Bought a high-vis outfit including airbag vest and helmet.

At this point I think I've reached at least a local maxima of dad.

Finger Prince posted:

And then you ride one. And it's like the motorcycle equivalent of standing in front of the grill drinking a bud light with your neighbor who you don't really like, but you're stuck in the same boat with anyway, on a Sunday, while your one kid is hitting the other kid with a pool noodle, your wife is fully checked out and halfway down a box of white wine, and you stare into the brick facade of the house opposite thinking about how you're going to get up in the morning and drive to your job that you hate but need because it pays for all this, this is your life now, ain't it grand. Kawasaki Versys.

Slavvy posted:

Cycle Asylum › DADBIKE - God I can feel the magnetic pull of it from here

Gorson posted:

GL1200 has a six digit odo so it's probably correct.

Jim Silly-Balls posted:

New goldwing, still on that same old death stranding bullshit

Jim Silly-Balls posted:

Also, sold the baby diarrhea brown goldwing 1200 yesterday

to a legend

Slavvy posted:

Lmfao

This is it steak, this is the funniest thing you'll ever say. It's all downhill from here.

Strife posted:

This is probably a decent question for the Dadbike thread. How do you keep the stink out of your saddlebags? The bags on my Road Glide are air tight, and I'll occasionally use them for transporting cheeseburgers or burritos, but mostly they just contain a wind-proof longsleeve shirt, a first aid kit, and a hat (also some tools, bungie cords, etc). Despite that, they seem to always carry this kind of stale sour smell no matter how long I leave them open to air out in my garage.

Should I chuck a container of baking soda in there? This has got to be a problem someone else has solved.

A MIRACLE posted:

My wife will find it sexy that I’m more protected

Jim Silly-Balls posted:

Jim Silly-Balls posted:

So by far the hardest thing to come to grips with on the goldwing has been the sheer amount of torque. Getting used to the weight was pretty easy minus a tip over in the grass a week or so after I bought it.

I used to ride a bandit 1200 and that thing was a torque monster, but mostly it would deal with the torque by wheelieing, which would pretty instantly give you the feedback that you maybe should back off (or not, it’s a wheelie!).

The goldwing won’t really wheelie under normal circumstances, and is, as far as I can tell, significantly more torquey than the bandit, so what does it do? Apparently it just spins the tire.

This wasn’t an issue in the summer when the pavement and tires were both hot as hell, but now that the pavement is cool and the tires stay cold way longer, I’ve found myself just spinning the tire randomly. Today getting on an onramp with the temps in the low 40’s, it just spun the tire as I accelerated up the ramp, partially leaned over. Bit of a pucker moment.

Very weird feeling, and something I really have to pay attention to in the corners I suppose.