A different perspective, late to the party

[VStarRider]

Must be a northern climate thing ... In New York, I have seen probably a total of 10 other F6s, and perhaps some of those are repeats.

When the guy who bought mine rode off into the sunset on mine, I heard it from a distance for the first time, and what a polished, smooth sounding bike. This is the reason I went to basically the same bike except with the features I wanted, and what inspired the “Dammit, Honda” thread.

[billsim]

Here in Northeast Ohio I have seen 4 F6B's in 4 years. Very rare bike around here which is fine with me. Very often at a stoplight I am being asked all about the bike. People love the looks when they see one up close.

[2wheelsforme]

I think it is funny that so many, even bike people think these are the new Goldwings. This week someone even called it a BMW.

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For example I've been asked -

Is that bike electric?
Is that a new GoldWing?
What kind of bike is that?
Holy shit that's nice, what is it?

To name a few.

[2wheelsforme]

I did not go to this rally but did two others plus a F6B meet and greet once. Good collection of Bs.
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[tenxxx]

A guy asked me the other day, How big are they making em now?
I told him 1800.
He said ,I bet that thing moves.
I just nodded. I said I hope they make em bigger next year.

[shortleg0521]

I think this is a funny forum.
I traveled to Long Island this morning and at 4:30 am I was passed by a black B.
It was all lit up in the rear and had one of those flashing brake lite things when he slowed for his exit.
Ya really great to see what others see when we are going down the road.

[VStarRider]

I had just about 27,000 miles on mine when I sold it. That turned off a lot of buyers. For my southern and western friends, 27,000 is high mileage for a lot of northern buyers. It takes someone who rides a lot and/or knows Gold Wings to even pick up the phone to call on a bike with that many miles. Makes for some great deals up here when you can actually find a bike with “high” mileage ... they don’t sell and sellers end up selling them cheap. I paid trade in on VStar five years ago because it had 33,000 miles in it and I was the only one who looked at it.

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It takes someone who rides a lot and/or knows Gold Wings to even pick up the phone to call on a bike with that many miles. Makes for some great deals up here when you can actually find a bike with “high” mileage ... they don’t sell and sellers end up selling them cheap.

I think that's very true. If I were in the market for another GW 50,000 + miles wouldn't bother me a bit as long as I knew the mechanical history and otherwise the bike was well taken care of.

[olegoat345]

In our Tue & Sat lunch group there's one other B, used to be 2 but he traded it on a new DCT GW.
I see several guys on here from FL. I'd bet they been right through my area (lots of back roads) but I've never seen them.