Winginit Goldwing stuff

12/04/2026

We’ve had a cracking weekend in the Yorkshire Wolds and North Yorks Moors with some pals.
11 people on 5 bikes and 1 sports car.
We met in Rotherham and rode over to Gainsborough and through the Lincs Wolds, across the Humber bridge to Hull.
We stayed at the Holiday Inn Hull Marina and rode over to Wetwang, Hackness, Whitby, back via Sandsend, Castleton, Hutton le Hole, Malton, and South Cave.
Mainly B roads and a few small lanes.
It’s been great 👍👍

Our Wing is one of the last Gen 2 models and has done 52,000 miles now but it’s purring along nicely and it handles just great. We’ve really enjoyed the riding this weekend 😎👍
Here’s a few pics.

16/11/2025

Good job I checked the Wing over before setting off in the morning, the heated glove socket wasn’t working !😱🤨🤣
It is now, (it was only dirt in the socket), so at least I’ll have warm hands for the ride to and from the NEC for the Motorcycle Show 😎
Will anyone I know be riding there tomorrow ?
I’m meeting Fireman AL at 08.30, Woodall Services, should be at the NEC just before 10 for a coffee before we go in ☕️👍

02/10/2025

Here’s a short video taken from the viewing platform above the valley we just rode into and then up to the ridge 👍👍

27/09/2025

23/09/2025

We left the seaside behind this morning and headed inland to Cordoba.
Nice ride up through, and across, the hills via small roads to Pizarro, Antequera, Lucena, and Cordoba.
We saw Millions of Olive trees, as far as the eye can see, for over 50miles of the ride north, amazing how many there are in this area.
Plenty of other sights too- castles, hilltop villages, reservoirs & dams, lots of stuff.
Now we’re at Cordoba for 3 nights to explore the town again. This time we’ll be visiting the Roman Bridge, Cathedral, and the Alcázar 👍👍

21/09/2025

After Seville we had a lovely cross country ride south & east over the hills to the Med coast and the Costa del Sol area.
We’re now at a very nice Meliá hotel
Costa del Sol in Torremolinos for 4 nights chill and relax.
Just a bit cooler down here, a nice 27-30c riding temp 👍😎👍

17/09/2025

Too hot for riding today, almost 40c 🥵
So we spent the day on foot walking about Seville and heading for the ‘Mushroom’.
It’s the largest wooden structure in the World 🤔😎
The Rooftop walkway is certainly a good way to see the city 👍

14/09/2025

27c sunny and warm today 😎👍
That’s because we’ve ridden south for 4 days 😁
A very rough crossing, the sea wasn’t kind to us, but 2 Stugeron and bed stopped me feeling almost anything 🤪🙄

03/09/2025

Found more than I’d bargained for.
Fitting new tires, to my bike, just check wheel bearings and steering head bearings while bike up on ramp.
Wheel bearings fine, BUT, the steering head bearings have a flat spot at dead ahead 🙄🤔🙁
So I decided to change them.

Fortunately I had a set of All Balls taper rollers in stock 👍
I started on Monday afternoon, and finished late morning today (Weds)
Spent approx 10hours doing it.

All sorted now and bike good to go with its new tyres on.
Dunlop Elite 4 on the rear, and
Avon Cobra Chrome on the front.
My favourite combo for 2up touring 😎

I took a few pics along the way just incase anyone might find it useful or interesting.

You’ll need some special tools if you do this job, it’s not difficult but there’s quite a bit of stripping down to do to get to the bearings.
Cheers
Ian.

22/08/2025

Wow, the cost of an Anti Dive valve plunger assembly has rocketed since I last bought some 😱
They’re now almost £200 !
So, instead of replacing I decided to strip and service a jammed AD on a bike I had in for a service.
There’s not much to them really and once I got it off the bike I stripped it down.
The plunger was solid, wouldn’t move at all, and I had to use A lot of pressure (hammer) to get it out.
It just needed a good clean up and a regrease. Fortunately I do have the special DOT4 compatible grease so I cleaned everything, greased the plunger, rebuilt it, refitted it to the bike, bled the hydraulic fluid to it, and Hey Presto, it now works as it should 👍👍
Let’s see how it performs long term 🤞
Here’s a few pics incase you need to do it to yours.