B.T's GL1800
B.T Amos
I
bought my Goldwing, 1800, in July 2001. Since then, I have found that I
easily average over 2,000 miles per month with my 20,000-mile check up due
before the end of February 2002. It had been all of 20 years since I had last
ridden. My last bike was a Kawasaki Z1.With 900 cc it was, or so I recall, just
amazingly fast and a joy to ride. Even then, I averaged about 40,000 miles per
year. I don't really remember why I stopped riding, but it certainly seems as if
the absence has really made me appreciate my current experience with the GW 1800
that much more.
I find that my Goldwing is close to perfection. At slow speeds it handles as if
it is a much smaller bike and yet it feels so solid when I twist the throttle
and start traveling at higher speeds. I found that when I leave Houston, Texas
and head out of the metropolitan area, I am frequently out of range of most
radio stations. This caused me to consider a CD player, but at about
$1,000.00 plus labor I felt that this was a bit unreasonable.
After evaluating what I considered viable alternatives I hit upon using an MP3
player. Music files on the web are sort of encoded and compressed into an MP3
file which can be downloaded into your computer hard drive and then uploaded
into a MP3 player. The player, which has 128 MB of memory, fits very nicely into
the left fairing pocket and hooks up to the little input cable already provided
and plays using the auxiliary function of the GoldWing sound system.
Total cost of the Player...about $150.00 … and I get about 35 songs on my
player which is usually about two hours high speed riding time.
Surprising enough I can easily hear the music just using speakers up to about
80-85 mph.
Hope that this helps someone else gain further enjoyment from what I feel is an
almost perfectly designed bike.
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