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The Honda Gold Wing is a series of touring motorcycles manufactured by Honda.Gold Wings feature shaft drive and a flat engine.Characterized by press in September 1974 as "The world's biggest motor cycle manufacturer's first attack on the over-750cc capacity market...", [4] it was introduced at the Cologne Motorcycle Show in October 1974.
Honda of America Manufacturing began motorcycle production at the Marysville Motorcycle Plant in 1979 with the CR250M Elsinore. All-terrain vehicles as well as the Gold Wing and Magna motorcycles, among others, were made there. The 500,000th vehicle produced at the plant was a Gold Wing Aspencade motorcycle in 1991, and the one-millionth ...
Honda Valkyrie Rune front view Honda Valkyrie Rune side view. Honda introduced a limited edition model in 2003 named the Valkyrie Rune with a 1,832-cubic-centimetre (111.8 cu in) engine, sourced from the Honda Goldwing 5th Generation. It was a major departure from the original Valkyrie in styling and purpose.
Honda Gold Wing bike. Honda is the largest motorcycle manufacturer in Japan and has been since it started production in 1955. [12] At its peak in 1982, Honda manufactured almost three million motorcycles annually. By 2006, this figure had been reduced to around 550,000 but was still higher than its three domestic competitors. [12]
[4] [5] [6] The ride was done on a 1980 Honda Gold Wing GL1100 motorcycle Scotto calls "Black Princess", [7] which now sits in the Don's Riverside Car Museum in Laughlin, Nevada. Scotto recounted his travels in a 224-page book illustrated with his photographs, The Longest Ride: My Ten-Year 500,000 Mile Motorcycle Journey [8], published in 2007.
1980 Honda Gold Wing GL1100: Circumnavigating. All of Europe, all of Africa, all of the Middle East, Central Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, some Pacific islands, and all of North and South America (279 countries) 735,000 km (457,000 mi) Guinness record for the world's longest motorcycle ride.
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BMW Motorrad have a long history of boxer-twin motorcycles, beginning in 1923 with the BMW R32 [5] Several motorcycles have been produced with flat-four engines, such as the 1938–1939 Zündapp K800 and the 1974–1987 Honda Gold Wing. In 1987, the Honda Gold Wing engine was upsized to a flat-six design. [8]