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    Best feeling in the world

    I was out riding today and sitting at a red light when a Harley rider pulled up next to me. The conversation went like this:
    HD - Nice bike. What is that?
    Me - It's a Goldwing
    HD - Ha Ha no really what is it?
    Me - It's an F6B.
    HD - Now that's nice. Yea I would ride that.

    PRICELESS!!!

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    You should let him ride on yours ... a little
    We could adopt one more enthusiast ( or more )

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    Just to add my 2 cents. I have never gotten as many compliments on a bike as I have on the F6'er. Walking out of a target store there was a guy walking around my bike!! HD Museum, Bike Night or just rolling down the street get a lot of thumbs up!!

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    I just thought it was funny that he didn't believe me when I told him it was a Goldwing!

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    Was on a day ride last week with my buddy who has a 2014 Harley Streetglide. We had just pulled into the parking lot of a ride destination point restaurant when a young man who had been walking towards the door as we backed into the parking spaces walked past us and as I was looking at him he said "cool bike". My buddy immediately said "thank you". I saw the kid smile and I smiled back and didn't have the heart to tell my buddy he was talking about my F6B and not his Harley.

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    Being bored in the frozen North up here, while reading through some old road tests of the F6B, I finally put my finger on why the F6B is so different and special for me. It's certainly not the size of the bike, but it's all about 2 unique aspects of the engine.

    1) The F6B (along with the GL1800 of course) is the ONLY motorcycle engine that has zero vibration throughout its entire operating range. No other current engine that I'm aware of can make that claim.

    2) The torque curve is so high and flat that the engine has absolutely no peakiness or zone of lacklustre performance. Acceleration is truly like turning the rheostat of an electric motor.

    Back to the cold garage to look at and sit on my sleeping F6B.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bigbird View Post
    Being bored in the frozen North up here, while reading through some old road tests of the F6B, I finally put my finger on why the F6B is so different and special for me. It's certainly not the size of the bike, but it's all about 2 unique aspects of the engine.

    1) The F6B (along with the GL1800 of course) is the ONLY motorcycle engine that has zero vibration throughout its entire operating range. No other current engine that I'm aware of can make that claim.

    2) The torque curve is so high and flat that the engine has absolutely no peakiness or zone of lacklustre performance. Acceleration is truly like turning the rheostat of an electric motor.

    Back to the cold garage to look at and sit on my sleeping F6B.
    And none of those attributes are visible,,, yet the 6 receives compliments based on appearance only,,,

    The smoothness / flat-wide power delivery is only something you experience AFTER you swing a leg over it,,,

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    Quote Originally Posted by bigbird View Post
    Acceleration is truly like turning the rheostat of an electric motor.

    Thats funny, Thats exactly how describe the power plant of the F6B.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ericb445 View Post
    Thats funny, Thats exactly how describe the power plant of the F6B.
    After teaching electrical for 30+ years, that's my analogy.

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