F6B crowd vs GWRRA Full Wing crowd

[seadog]

Most of the F6B riders I know love the bike and try to keep it simple, sleek and fast...Many GW riders love to load the things with gobs of chrome, lights, whistles and bells, etc. etc.....Some don't and just keep it stock looking which is okay....The majority of the GW riders I know "ride to eat" as stated earlier and many ride two-up a lot...Several folks think GW riders are just "old folks", but in reality many are middle aged riders that love the comfort and ride of the fully loaded Wing.....I would ride if I took long trips, rode two-up, and was a little taller and younger....but my F6B works fine for me for now....Regards, and ride safe

I like Chrome! But not the amount some of those people hit their bikes with, suttle touches make it stand out without being way to much. I didn't like the black pipes on the 2015 so the dealer switch in a set off a new 2014 and I didn't like the big ugly frame welds so I put on a set of chrome frame covers, the next was the Chrome Rivco Aero Highway peg and two nice little chrome pieces for the front fender, the Kuryakyn Chrome cubby cup holder and got rid of that ugly kick stand for a nice chrome one from Value Accessories and at that point I am done, enough but not over the top.003.jpg

[tiltingf6b]

Total newbie here to all things Goldwing (been on non-Honda metric crusiers for last 10 yrs) but can some of you folks comment on the basic differences between these two crowds besides the GWRRA matching shirts? Attitudes, type of rides/rallys, other...

Not much point in owning a full wing unless your into riding two up. Me I like solo - I owned a Honda 2014 F6C Valkyrie which is the naked Goldwing with slightly different geometry - true cruiser. The F6B feels like a sofa on two wheels compared to the Valkyrie. There is a Goldwing group in my area and I was invited to ride to a golden coral befat within a month of owning my bike - go figure. Now I know why

[Navvet]

Once upon a time my wife and I rode two up .....


then came the Spyder and she will not ride with me any more .....

So ... The "6" is perfect for me (and it matches her Spyder)





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[53driver]

Riding solo machine:


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[edgeman55]

Hmm, I'm thinking there's a correlation here.

Yep-I am 6'5" and around 385lbs.Was as big as 425 last year but slowly on the way down.Small for me would be under 300.Been big all my 62 years but I'm a lover not a fighter-Plus I have out lived 5 thin doctors-LOL.

[D-Train]

First thing I stripped off my recently acquired F6B was goofy pin-striping the previous owner put on.

Hey Jim. I should have bought a snowmobile, but after watching the news, you should have bought a boat! Hows the flooding situation where you live? (sorry for hijacking the thread!)

[JMartin]

Hey Jim. I should have bought a snowmobile, but after watching the news, you should have bought a boat! Hows the flooding situation where you live? (sorry for hijacking the thread!)

The flooding is on the North East end of town, out in a rural area... a rather flat place known as Soap Lake and Fraser Lake... you would think that people who build in that kind of place pay more attention to the word "Lake" but I guess the lake only forms every 10 years or so. Anyway, the news is certainly running away with it.

The main road that I commute to and from work (Fraser Lake Road) has been barricaded for a few days due to flooding across the road, so it has made the local highway (Hwy 25, a two lane joke to begin with) a morning and evening bumper-to-bumper crawl.

I can certainly feel for those who have been temporarily displaced, but the water is only a couple feet deep, it just covers hundreds of acres that are normally dry. It's not like it's sweeping homes off their foundations or anything. The sky's are clearing up for the next couple days, and waters should begin to recede. There's some cleanup to be done, but not from the kind of damage brought on by swift water. On the other hand, all the local reservoirs are flowing over their spillways... Coyote Lake, Anderson Dam, and Calero Reservoir. We haven't seen that in many years. San Luis Reservoir, over highway 152 is fuller than it's been in a decade. All of this is good news for our region, and for California in general.

Other than a revisit from an old leak over my living room ceiling... which I will be tending to tomorrow... I'm doing fine.
Thanx for asking.

Jim

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