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It's Friday night and my date is asleep. Thought I would share my experience with the 2018 Goldwing Tour with the automatic transmission - no clutch. My local Honda Dealer offered to let me ride one. "Sure" I said quickly. The first thing I noticed when I sat on it was how easy it was to bring the bike up to centre. With the bike on it's side stand I can lift it to centre with no hands. I couldn't flat foot the bike and that made me a bit nervous. The sales rep spent some time with me going through stuff on that transformer frame-mounted fairing. I didn't remember very much of it once we got going as I kept reaching for the clutch not sure how much throttle to give without the friction zone to temper it a bit. That became quite evident after traversing the gravel Honda dealership parking lot where we were to make a fairly abrupt left unto a paved road. In addition to that I got a little freaked out with the sensation that the bike was not turning left because the fairing was still pointing straight ahead. I figure you would get use to that fairly quickly. Did I mention I was nervous? That kind of fell away once we got going because it was sweeet. It started to rain and I remebered the electric windshield. Visor didn't even get wet by the time we got back. Never thought I would ever ride an automatic bike and so smooth, no disruption from shifting and that six cylinder power plant serving it up graceful and strong. Dream on...
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Not my favourite tranny at all. Deal with them weekly. DCT was very promising but I think is loosing ground in US market due to problems among all automakers.
Given Honda quality and superior workmanship, I believe Wing will be trouble free.
In my opinion DCT is more considered standard than automatic: DCTs are twin gearboxes linked by a pair of clutches and there is no torque converter like ATM has.
Lash, can you give us update how you like DCT, no problems so far, how many km?
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be careful and dont say "automatic".....honda hate this.....it has a clutch ....oh no even 2 of these !
automatic has no transmission
DCT is only : an automated transmission...switch you can still self every time....but with this lots sensors you can let it make from self too
the big hit; you can never kill the engine bcos to low rmp.....overrev when downshift is not possible, the electronic prohibits it...oh i like super braking with the engine....i guess my dealer needs never to change my brake-pads....LOL
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by a automatic you cant use an enginebrake....
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(10-26-2018, 11:40 PM)alprider_imp Wrote: be careful and dont say "automatic".....honda hate this.....it has a clutch ....oh no even 2 of these !
automatic has no transmission
DCT is only : an automated transmission...switch you can still self every time....but with this lots sensors you can let it make from self too
the big hit; you can never kill the engine bcos to low rmp.....overrev when downshift is not possible, the electronic prohibits it...oh i like super braking with the engine....i guess my dealer needs never to change my brake-pads....LOL
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by a automatic you cant use an enginebrake....
..so how you take off and change gears ?
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read the rest of the text as well
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study about, how does function for example a Scooter or the classic automatic cars..
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and i hope too you know what is , means an enginebrake ?
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by cars with DCT or just by honda bikes with DCT (there are any diffrent models) you have still a button with +/- for switch the gears up and down
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Is not my desire to go into into argument with any forum member
I wish I had $1 for every standard tranny overhaul/rebuilt, $5 for every ATM repair, $10 for every DCT involvement...not to mention about $0.50 for all these tranny diagnose/troubleshoot
...I use my car's ATM for engine-braking every day
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i dont know Honda produce DCT by bikes since any years ....2013 ? the sporttouring VFR1200 with 170hp was one of the first and of course in same time the NC models......(my Vultus , CTX, Integra has the same base like NC)
and by cars we know this technology already any years longer
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I have DCT on my Africa Twin. All I can say is that it is brilliant! +1 for the bike not stalling. After a learning curve of about 15 minutes I came to appreciate how well the shift points had been selected and how the different drive modes were set up. Yes...it is an odd thing on a motorbike, but Honda has it dialed in. For me at least, zero issues with the DCT.
