No you were just dragging an anchor one of my friends just got a S/E roadking and finally we have someone in the group that can beat our friends goldwing.

 

Yep might be faster, but you still look like a complete retard. Go park next to him at the bar, and see who's bike gets more attention.

 

Gold Wings are seriously fast. Somewhere around is a "Ride Behind" video (great website, BTW) of TWO going up Deal's Gap scraping hard parts all the way, but making outrageous time for something in that weight class.

Screw with a 'Wing on any air-cooled Harley at your own peril.

 

I worked an intersection in the North Texas Toy Run from American Honda on Saturday.

There is NO WAY to keep up with Wings once they take off, 'specially when you're riding a Honda Magna 750.

I could have joined the run as it passed, but I was so blasted cold I just went home and took a long, hot shower.

Pretty wimpy, huh?

 

I had a 2004 Wing.....put 34K mi on it. Yes, it's quick.....and there's almost NOTHING you can do aftermarket to make it quicker and 99.9% of Wing owners don't do any performance mods. I had aftermarket slip-ons that just made it sound better. It's fast out of the box....but I now ride a cbr1100XX....the Wing felt like a snail compared to the XX. But the Wing REALLY needs a 6th gear IMO. It's geared very low...1st gear is almost non-existant. 5th comes quick and the bike is spinning fairly high at 85mph.....it still can fly at that speed but an real overdrive would be much better on that bike.

Wing's are great bikes but it's so smooth....it's a bit boring. No thumping v-twin involvement on a Wing. Some like that.......I personally don't so much.
But if you thing HD's have torque......try a Wing.......it's a torque MONSTER.

And a Diablo is still faster.........It will do a 12.0 119mph 1/4 mi.....Wing is more like mid 12's and under 110mph but not too far off.

 

Z-1 is right, and they were fast. But I liked the earlier 60's 750 H2's better, for the styling. The 3 cylinder 2 cycle engine in the light weight frame could be a handfull if you weren't careful. Tire, brake, and suspension technology just wasn't up to coping with the power output of the engines. Its little brother the 500 H1 was even worse. One magazine wrote that you needed to be nearly a professional race rider to take full advantage of the engines power because the frame had about 15 hinges in the middle.
The new (then) EPA rules killed those old 2 cycle smokers. I can't imagine what kind of power inprovments would have been possible with 30 plus years of development time and todays electronic engine controls. Make a V-Max sit up and take notice.

 

Now that's what's MOST important........not.

 

The Wing's are flat 6 cylinder-1800ccs since 2001. Before that 1500cc 6 cylinders......Valkyrie's have this engine as well.

 

How fast do you NEED to go? My StreetBob will outrun my Deadwood, and I know from experience that my Deadwood will wheelie when holeshotted (interesting on a 750lb+ bike). My Outlaw is brutal fast, if I chose to open it up. But why, other than "I can".

 

This guy MAKES videos....of SPORTBIKES, from his Gold Wing camera bike on "The Dragon" section of Deal's Gap. If anyone with an SE ANYTHING other than MAYBE a Buell wants to race him up the Gap, I wanna' watch! My money will be on the 'Wing, in any case.

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