No, not used the Sat nav at all !!
Will get it updated when I can though.
Don’t think I’ll cut the screen.
Good idea though.
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No, not used the Sat nav at all !!
Will get it updated when I can though.
Don’t think I’ll cut the screen.
Good idea though.
Thank you for the review. I first saw the bike at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, where they were used by the track marshals. They told me how good they thought the bike was. If I was looking for a possible replacement for my 1600, I’d certainly give it a go.
Interesting that the MyRoute app skipped two points. I haven’t found that problem yet. Are you sure that your finger didn’t bounce (ie that you tapped twice, accidentally). The MyRoute app forum has a Beta app test problems / comments section, which really is very good. I have used it several times and can recommend it.
Interesting that the MyRoute app skipped two points. I haven’t found that problem yet. Are you sure that your finger didn’t bounce (ie that you tapped twice, accidentally). The MyRoute app forum has a Beta app test problems / comments section, which really is very good. I have used it several times and can recommend it.
Possibly but I’m sure I only pressed the ‘ok’ button once. Was wearing gloves though .
Quite good to be able to use the MRA on the fly with the wing .
Going to potter around the coast today so will see if it behaves
One small tip, when it comes to MyRoute. Their recommendation is that you use the ‘More’ feature to add additional shaping points / route points. Their suggestion is one shaping point, roughly every five km or so. This helps to fix the route, should it ever recalculate. It also helps to fix the route, should you ever share it with someone using a sat nav GPS device, dinosaurs that they might be.
The other really useful feature of following the recommendation, is that it makes it much easier to join a lengthy route ‘midway’, as opposed to the app’s default method of joining the route at point 1.
For example, using your screen shot, pretend that you were in Plancoët and wanted to join the route at say points 9 or 11, rather than at the app’s default poisition which would point 1. That would be easy to do. Now, pretend that you were still in Plancoët but wanted to join the route in say, Bréhand, which is roughly halfway between points 12 and 13. That would be more difficult to do, as there are no shaping points between the two.
The other really useful feature of following the recommendation, is that it makes it much easier to join a lengthy route ‘midway’, as opposed to the app’s default method of joining the route at point 1.
For example, using your screen shot, pretend that you were in Plancoët and wanted to join the route at say points 9 or 11, rather than at the app’s default poisition which would point 1. That would be easy to do. Now, pretend that you were still in Plancoët but wanted to join the route in say, Bréhand, which is roughly halfway between points 12 and 13. That would be more difficult to do, as there are no shaping points between the two.
Good info. Ta
Welcome.
It’s a trick I learned from the MyRoute forum, when I asked why I found it so hard to join a route ‘midway’.
I learnt the separate advice about adding more shaping points, when I applied to MyRoute to become a ‘Super user’ or whatever it is they call it.
Nice to have it built in though
That is pretty similar to the cubbyhole on the pre-2022 1600’s, which carry the sat nav device ‘built in’. And, in a way, similar to the very good large TFT screen on the latest generation 1600’s.
It certainly looks like a good display on the Honda, whilst the conventional clocks do not look too dated. They look very similar to the pre-TFT screen 1600’s clocks in style.
It certainly looks like a good display on the Honda, whilst the conventional clocks do not look too dated. They look very similar to the pre-TFT screen 1600’s clocks in style.
It’s a good system let down by a terrible satnav.
It's an amazing bike in the flesh, I went up to one of the few Goldwing dealers to have a good looksee, the bark from the exhaust when they start it is something else
My only niggle was the TFT, i'd have liked to be able to show the speed digitally in the TFT.
The clocks are just in the, I need to wear reading glasses to see range. lol
Came very close to chopping the GS and taking a PCP contract
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Don't hesitate, they are epic bikes with amazing handling. Go for it!
Only problem is that mine is sitting unused in the garage because the crappy, mucky, potholed roads around me mean I jump on the 1150GS more often.
Hopefully that will change over the 'summer'.
Enjoying the MRA discussions....and wondering whether that's the future for me rather than the unintuitive Basecamp....
Don't hesitate, they are epic bikes with amazing handling. Go for it!
Only problem is that mine is sitting unused in the garage because the crappy, mucky, potholed roads around me mean I jump on the 1150GS more often.
Hopefully that will change over the 'summer'.
Enjoying the MRA discussions....and wondering whether that's the future for me rather than the unintuitive Basecamp....
As it is with my RT. Reverted back to a TomTom and don't bother at all now with the connected app.
I don’t see any likelihood of any UK council getting their roads in shape by summer…. This year or indeed, before the next millennium
I was in France at Easter and again last weekend, riding D roads, so not the main nationals too much. With a very few exceptions, all of their roads (no matter how rural) are in pretty good condition. We are similar sized economies, with the same financial constraints, so how can France manage it, when we manifestly fail?
A part of the answer might lie in this book, well reviewed in the Sunday Times:
Our Lives in Their Portfolios by Brett Christophers review — sold off, sold out
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...6?shareToken=22d3db886d42400ab8499d3c4bcd9e85
I like England and the UK but we seem to have settled for an unhappy common level of mediocrity in so much of our lives.
PS Apologies for the thread hijack.
I think i saw your one at Portsoy , wanted a good looksee, but you'd gone before i got chance ..
I don’t see any likelihood of any UK council getting their roads in shape by summer…. This year, or indeed, the next millennium
I was in France at Easter and again last weekend, riding D roads, so not the main nationals too much. With a very few exceptions, all of their roads (no matter how rural) are in pretty good condition. We are similar sized economies, with the same financial constraints, so how can France manage it, when we manifestly fail?
A part of the answer might lie in this book, well reviewed in the Sunday Times:
Our Lives in Their Portfolios by Brett Christophers review — sold off, sold out
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...6?shareToken=22d3db886d42400ab8499d3c4bcd9e85
I like England and the UK but we seem to have settled for an unhappy common level of mediocrity in so much of our lives.
PS Apologies for tge thread hijack.
French being French, all road maintenance works are undertaken by government workforce, I’d imagine. In exeption to perhaps major infrastructure contracts handed out to competent firms. I do wonder why HS2 is being built partly by the French… not least because they know how to, but perhaps “trust” no idea, I am no politician nor I indulge in politics much…
Anyhow German roads are great too… Swiss take great pride in their road network, with manicured grass verges. I think Belgium is the only country that I know of, in the Western mainland Europe to have shoddy roads. I’ve hit a massive pothole on the motorway once in my car. Suddenly I had ABS light on for the remainder of our trip.
Here in Britain, councils do not employ their own workforce, to fix and maintain roads. Instead this work handed out to local “paving companies”, we all know what that means.
Since last November, I’ve been coming down into Radlett via Watford / Park Road. The particular section of the road has been patched up by said “paving companies” literally on a weekly basis. By the end of Friday, the holes are wider and deeper than before the coverup.
There you go, their speed and agility is faster than the human eye can keep up with
I am going to contact Honda, either Chiswick or Motorden in East London, to see if I can borrow one for a full weekend.
I’ll be interested to see how it compares with my latest generation K1600 which, despite the TFT EMF problem (now largely cured) I pretty much like. I was a big Honda fan for years, so it’ll be interesting to see what it’s like, if nothing else.
I have long thought that the 1600 would be the sort of bike that would benefit from an ‘automatic’ gearbox and, having in mind I don’t think I have ever ridden a motorbike with ‘automatic’, I might learn something new.
K1600
Weight 320 kg
Power 160 bhp
Torque 175 nm
‘Wing thing
367 kg
125 bhp
170 nm
I am never quite sure how manufacturers specify weight, so I’ll ignore that.
Power difference? Straight comparisons are meaningless, other than when playing Top Trumps; it is how the power is delivered that is important. In other words, what is it like to ride?
Tank range? Both more than adequate.
Kit? Broadly similar, I guess?
Comfort? We shall have to wait and see. I guess though that the automatic gearbox does add some eight to the thing.
I’ll be interested to see how it compares with my latest generation K1600 which, despite the TFT EMF problem (now largely cured) I pretty much like. I was a big Honda fan for years, so it’ll be interesting to see what it’s like, if nothing else.
I have long thought that the 1600 would be the sort of bike that would benefit from an ‘automatic’ gearbox and, having in mind I don’t think I have ever ridden a motorbike with ‘automatic’, I might learn something new.
K1600
Weight 320 kg
Power 160 bhp
Torque 175 nm
‘Wing thing
367 kg
125 bhp
170 nm
I am never quite sure how manufacturers specify weight, so I’ll ignore that.
Power difference? Straight comparisons are meaningless, other than when playing Top Trumps; it is how the power is delivered that is important. In other words, what is it like to ride?
Tank range? Both more than adequate.
Kit? Broadly similar, I guess?
Comfort? We shall have to wait and see. I guess though that the automatic gearbox does add some eight to the thing.
I have the same problem mine's just sitting in the garage. I did have a potholed, dirt/gravel road which led to a horribly patched up paved road. This was awful but passable. But last month they ground a couple inches of humps and patches off the "paved road" then covered it with 4" of 1.5" stone. When I called I was told the road was in their cost saving "paved roads back to gravel roads program". The T700 is a handful on it so I'm afraid to risk the Goldwing sliding over. Hopefully in a few more weeks the worst of the stone will be washed and spread off into the ditches and I can get the Wing out. Geesh!
As you are/were an ardent fan of the K1600 I’d be interested to know your opinion if you try one.
It’s not just an automatic bike, you can use the ‘paddles’ to change up and down. I defy anyone to get a smoother downshift than a wing being manually downshifted using the sustained gear change method. Not going to happen, no siree, never. Not ever.
This is another good updated review on the Wing you might like to cast your eye over. This youtuber reviewed the "non tour" version initially a few years ago. His review encouraged me to test ride and subsequently buy one.
https://youtu.be/hBJd9fR91K0
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