Author Archive for Bob
Laying up your Goldwing for Winter
Winter can serve up the occasional gorgeous biking day but when the annual ritual of salting our roads starts its enough to encourage most of us to tuck our precious GoldWings away until Spring, and if we’re foolish ...............
New Link added – Custom Paint & Airbrushing
Secretary John Clark had contact recently with Mark Lovell of Custom Paint & Airbrushing. Based locally in Darwen it appears Mark not only does business with many Goldwing owners, he is a GL1800 rider himself and provides paint and airbrush ...............
Federation announces new club in North Midlands
The Federation website has announced the formation of a new independent Goldwing club in the Staffordshire area. From my understanding it is being formed by several Goldwings North Wales members who all live in the Stoke / Staffordshire area. Apparently ...............
Caption Competition IV
This image was taken at the hugely successful Llandudno Light Parade, what you are seeing is the Winners Cup, awarded to “Llandudnos favorite Goldwing” as voted for by the people and visitors of Llandudno. I believe it was won by ...............
Caption Competition III – Winner Anounced
Well the only real winner of Caption Competition III must be Ian Duxbury with
“Barbara, Barbara, are these my glasses?”
Bit controversial as you have to know Bill Squires and his beloved Barbara but the caption fits really well. Congratulations to Ian ...............
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics Show – this Sunday 16th
Short notice run out for this Sunday
If the weather holds out Frank Goodman plans a ride out to the Carole Nash Classic Motorcycle Show at Stafford County Show Ground. Gates open on Sunday at 9:00 am until 5:00pm. With hundreds ...............
AwingAway announces intrim servicing from £99.00
Dave Partridge, owner of AwingAway and technical advisor to the Federation has announced a major deal on intrim service costs.
Dave says “I am also reducing the cost of all major services for all marques of Goldwing. The new pricing structure is based on ...............
2012 Goldwing models arrive in the UK
Ian Cardwell, founder member of Elite Wings and all round fountain of knowledge on GL1800′s has posted a comment on the Goldwing Riders Forum regarding the receipt of two new 2012 model GL1800′s fresh from Japan.
Read his review
National Memorial Arboretum ride out report- Graham & Sue
Sue and I arrived at Truck stop 2000 car park around 09:30 and parked our bike up to wait to see if anyone else would arrive. After about 5 minutes, Dave and Tonia arrived on their trike. As we were waiting ...............
New webmaster required
Just a reminder to everyone, I will be stepping down as web apprentice at the AGM and you will need a new volunteer to push the website forward. Its been an amazing and enjoyable few years building and developing the ...............
Billy Connollys Route 66
68 year old funnyman Billy Connolly has filmed another of his very entertaining travelogue programmes for ITV1, this time riding a trike along America’s most famous highway, Route 66.
Famous for his personal world tour series and tramping around naked in the snow in Billy Connolly: Journey ...............
Caption Competition III
I thought this would be a good picture to feature in Caption Competition III. So far the comments have been good but its about time to up your game. The picture was captured at the recent RAF Woodvale rally. I ...............
