I bought some SW Motech engine bars for the GS from Nippy Normans. They were a good price compared with other makes and they arrived swiftly. Both left hand and right hand bars went on the bike easily enough although the lower bolts must have been made from putty as the hex key started to [...]

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 [...]

Not for the Goldwing but for my ancient ZZR 1100. I took it along today and it passed - not sure how much longer it will continue to do so without a service but I use the bike so little at the moment, it hardly seems worthwhile. I keep thinking about selling it but I [...]

I was early this morning at 21st Moto in Swanley to get this service done - a couple of hundred miles over the 4000 mark but not too bad - it’’s basically an oil and filter change plus inspection of brake pads etc. but I wanted to ensure the warranty was not compromised. If it [...]

I have a 4000 mile service due. Basically it’’s just an oil and filter change and I had intended to do it myself but other Goldwing owners have warned me that I risk my warranty unless a dealer does it and stamps the service book. I really wouldn”t want to compromise the warranty so I [...]

A soldering iron, some solder, heatshrink tubing and a half hour were all it took - oh I forgot the multimeter I used to confirm which wire was the ground wire in the bike’’s system - it was indeed the green wire.
The turn flashers are brighter than they appear here when viewed from the [...]

The special amber Muth mirrors I ordered arrived yesterday and as the fitting instructions looked pretty easy I rushed to fit them. Unfortunately, as I discovered, the supplied harness is designed for a USA spec bike with three wires to the mirror housing - one of which I found out after emailing Muth, is for [...]

I made my first trip to a regional wings meeting yesterday. I live just about equidistant in time (there must be a word for that?) from Capital Wings, Kent Wings and Surrey Wings but as I live in Kent (by about 100 yards) and as Aylesford where the Kent Wings meet was the easiest to [...]

Get a half cover for the bike, it must surely beat all that mopping up in the morning when it rains the night before.
The stock seat suits me just fine and the heated seat and grips are very nice to have when it’’s cold.
The large information panel on my bike is great for reading without [...]