A serious question to Gold Wing owners: Is there anything this bike can’t do? I had the absolute pleasure of riding the latest iteration of this model from Birmingham, Alabama, to Daytona, Florida, for Bike Week earlier this year. To say I was blown away by its touring capability would be an understatement, but I was even taken aback by how fun it was to rail when you find the right curves.
Now, however, I’m starting to wonder if there’s anything this legendary machine can’t do.
Two top riders, Kirian Mirabet and Carson Brown, have taken Gold Wings enduro riding, and they don’t look half bad. OK, more than half of this is the rider because Brown could rip a shopping cart around his personal track, but the Gold Wing he’s on is decades old and, well, just look at it fly.
Mirabet, the Spanish enduro and adventure rider from Spain, is probably best-known for terrorizing hard-packed dirt corners on his Honda Africa Twin, and showing just about every possible way to take said corners. Well, now, he’s doing the same, but on Honda’s heavyweight offering.
What’s even cooler about Mirabet’s videos is he’s shredding without a clutch or, at least, without a clutch lever because he’s on the DCT Gold Wing.
If you’ve been following us here at RideApart for a while, you’ll have seen a Gold Wing tackle a motocross track before, but these days it almost doesn’t count unless Brown takes a model around his personal track. We’ve also seen the Cboys use a Gold Wing as an off-road transporter, basically treating it like a Honda Ridgeline.
I’ve held my hands up in the past and asked for forgiveness for the times in the past that I’ve made fun of Gold Wings and Gold Wing riders, and these videos only reinforce how cool the Gold Wing in every iteration is.
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