09-19-2017, 12:45 PM
After the sporting touring discussions, and talk of new honda's figured I ask if anyone has any knowledge of older circa 86 gold wings
ThiS past summer I was in Maine for a funeral (wife's grandmother, she was 97 and had a good run) and I stayed at my MiL's
My MiL's ex left his 86 gold wing behind.. hasn't run in 2 years (had a heart attack). He (ex stepfather in law) used it to commute about 10 miles to work daily for years, and maintained it (oil changes, carb cleaned yearly, but didn't really maintain the body work, but it's all there). It sits outside in the summer but during the nasty winters it's stored in a heated shed.. its complete, a little sun faded, and has a bit of a patina, with maybe 40k miles.. It was offered to me a good price then, now before the Maine winter comes, i could pick it up for a few hundred.
My townhouse garage is near capacity with the cb11, hd dyna, ktm 620adv. I've never ridden one, let alone worked on one.. I'm quasi tempted, I'd probably pull the trigger if I didn't have to go to maine with my trailer (it's 8ish hours one way) and clean my garage. I just don't know anything about em, and with the family stuff going on I don't have that much time to spend looking into it. So since everyone here has a variety of stuff, figured I'd ask if folks thought it was work the risk.
Thoughts?
Thx in advance
ThiS past summer I was in Maine for a funeral (wife's grandmother, she was 97 and had a good run) and I stayed at my MiL's
My MiL's ex left his 86 gold wing behind.. hasn't run in 2 years (had a heart attack). He (ex stepfather in law) used it to commute about 10 miles to work daily for years, and maintained it (oil changes, carb cleaned yearly, but didn't really maintain the body work, but it's all there). It sits outside in the summer but during the nasty winters it's stored in a heated shed.. its complete, a little sun faded, and has a bit of a patina, with maybe 40k miles.. It was offered to me a good price then, now before the Maine winter comes, i could pick it up for a few hundred.
My townhouse garage is near capacity with the cb11, hd dyna, ktm 620adv. I've never ridden one, let alone worked on one.. I'm quasi tempted, I'd probably pull the trigger if I didn't have to go to maine with my trailer (it's 8ish hours one way) and clean my garage. I just don't know anything about em, and with the family stuff going on I don't have that much time to spend looking into it. So since everyone here has a variety of stuff, figured I'd ask if folks thought it was work the risk.
Thoughts?
Thx in advance