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The Retriever lets you tow 5,000 pounds... with a Honda Goldwing

Jonathon Ramsey — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:31:00 EST

Filed under: Aftermarket, Etc., Motorcycle

The Retriever - Click above for high-res image gallery

We don't know why you'd want to haul a car with a Honda Goldwing, but a Swedish company called Coming Through hasn't constrained themselves to our tiny imaginations. That's why they've created The Retriever, a stowable towing unit you can have installed on the back of a Goldwing 1800 that's good for pulling up to 5,500 pounds. If you want a little more help doing a dirty job, you can get a winch added to the package. The only drawback: maximum speed while towing is 20 miles per hour. That wouldn't stop us from wanting it, though, even though we never imagined... Hat tip to Alexis!

Gallery: The Retriever

[Source Coming Through]

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Video: Dragging a knee on a Honda... Gold Wing?

Jeremy Korzeniewski — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:57:00 EST

Filed under: Motorsports, Videos, Honda, Motorcycle

Dragging a knee on a Honda Gold Wing - Click above to watch the video after the jump

It's not at all uncommon to see Honda two-wheelers at a local track day event. After all, the Japanese company is the world's largest manufacturer of motorcycles, and its VFR, CB and CBR line of sport bikes have become synonymous with reliable performance. It's just as likely that you'll encounter one of Honda's motorcycles, in most cases a Gold Wing, when touring across the United States.

Naturally, it's significantly less common to see a CBR criss-crossing the country, and, perhaps even more so, a Gold Wing on the track. But that's not to say it can't be done. In fact, Honda's luxo-barge is well known to be a nice ride through the twistier bits that often connect those long, barren straightaways to the more sparsely populated cities across America.

That said, a rider scraping up his (or her, of course) knee pucks aboard a Honda Gold Wing isn't the kind of thing you expect to see every day. And that makes the video pasted after the break all the more impressive. Not too shabby, if we do say so ourselves.

[Source: Bikerpunks.com]

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Honda ending U.S. motorcycle production

Alex Nunez — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:31:00 EST

Filed under: Plants/Manufacturing, Honda, Motorcycle

Click above for a high-res gallery of the 2008 Honda VTX

Honda has announced that next year it will cease motorcycle production at its Marysville, OH manufacturing plant. That facility's output, along with that of the Hamamatsu, Japan factory, will be shifted to the the company's brand new bike plant in Kumamoto next year. In 2007, Marysville built 44,000 Gold Wing and VTX models, though Honda notes that there will be no layoffs because of this shift in production. Instead, the Marysville workers will be reassigned to other Honda businesses in the fair state of Ohio.

Gallery: 2008 Honda VTX Series

Gallery: Honda Gold Wing

[Source: IHT via The Kneeslider]

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