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My wife as passenger, and I have owned an ridden several Honda Gold Wing motorcycles with the last being a GL1500. I tuned that thing and removed the exhaust baffles with straight turndowns and it was fat but top heavy. We went across the country 3 times covering 31 states on that ride then we sold it to take 7 years of infertility treatments to have kids who have moved on. In 2004 I bought my first Harley, a Heritage Softail that was nice, but not a touring bike, so in 2013 after my wife survived her first battle with breast cancer, we bought our current ride, a 2013 Red Road Glide Ultra we named Gossamer. We were starting to ride when my wife's breast cancer cam back in 2016 and it damn near killed her 4 times but she got through it. Our Gossamer was used, but not much over the last few years. Now things have improved and I actually got enough cash saved to get her 5k service yesterday. We took her out today for a ride for Mother's Day and had a great time. So with saddle time in both while Harley is more alive and the Gold Wing more technically perfect we still prefer the Harley. The Gold Wings we had were great, 3 of them, but we have Gossamer. My wife looks forward to every ride on it, she is happy and while it is a somewhat less technical bike, she and I feel more comfortable riding it.
Oh, as a side note when my wife came in the dealer service door when we were picking up the bike she asked how are we paying for it. Before I could stop myself I stated "well I was going to give them your left breast but that is gone so I guess my ATM card" and my wonderful wife started laughing. The service writer was busting a gut as another customer in there turned red and did not know what to say or do. That was just fun.
Oh, as a side note when my wife came in the dealer service door when we were picking up the bike she asked how are we paying for it. Before I could stop myself I stated "well I was going to give them your left breast but that is gone so I guess my ATM card" and my wonderful wife started laughing. The service writer was busting a gut as another customer in there turned red and did not know what to say or do. That was just fun.