For what it's worth Elroy, I bought my 1st Goldwing 1500 SE I was a youngin' just like you at 27! I have only left the wing world for a 4 year midlife crisis called a Kawasaki Concourse 14. And yes it was a painful as it sounds.
To each his own but w/ the 6 there is want for little else.
"Great Britain's a great country, but it's not an idea ... that's how we see [America] around the world, one of the greatest ideas in human history." Bono