Tomorrow I am off to the Irish Treffen on the Goldwing. I have never been to Ireland before so it’’s a real first for me. There is one fly in the ointment however, the ferry tickets were booked by fellow Kent Winger Vern and the timing is such that we have to leave at 04:30 [...]

Yesterday I went off to North Walsham to pick up my new trailer at Freewheel and also got a trailer towbar fitted at the same time. The weather going up was horrid - a grey murk that resembled a London smog in many ways, except for the foul smell that used to accompany those. It [...]

On the Goldwing that is. I bought it just a year ago when I started this blog and it has performed beautifully during the time since then but I guess part of that is getting it serviced regularly and so I took it into Doble’’s yesterday for the scheduled service. I reckon a 4000 mile [...]

In my (respectable on-road) Goldwing life - as opposed to my (irreverent off-road) GS life, I have decided it’’s time to get a trailer for the bike. I hasten to say that is not a trailer to carry the bike on but a trailer to tow behind the bike. This will alow me to [...]

OK I don”t understand Bluetooth but then it’’s supposed to just work isn”t it? On the Goldwing, I hear my GPS and other stuff (radio, CB etc) through a wired connection and the bike’’s built-in intercom system but on the GS I have been using custom earplugs with built in speakers connected to the original [...]

After riding the GS for the last few days, I took the Goldwing out this morning and it took me a couple of miles before I felt at home again on such a different machine - I even tried to switch the indicators in the stupid BMW mode! I think the thing that [...]

On the new bike. I am riding around all the twistiest hilliest lanes I can find and it’’s behaving impeccably. My 600 miles service is booked for the 31st March which means that I have to be a bit careful not to put many more miles on it. I am planning a longish rideout with [...]

We have had a great February weatherwise! I have been out on the bike a lot in splendidly sunny weather and feeling warm enough until the sun goes behind a cloud when it suddenly feels cold and you realise that this is still officially winter with over 3 weeks to go before spring. The apparent [...]

And still brilliant today as well. I took myself off to Wiltshire on Saturday for a bit of gentle, aimless wandering around the hillier bits. I was pleased to find that once off the main roads, the smaller ones were pretty quiet. It was such a lovely day, inevitably quite a bit of traffic had [...]

The name of this blog is currently “Chris’’s Goldwing Blog” and that’’s a pretty accurate name as far as most of it’’s content currently goes but I have a problem.
I love my Goldwing better than any bike I have owned to date although I have done many more miles on other bikes, none has [...]