Motorcycle Classics

“Dad, it was a Gold Wing.”

Reconciling the imagined and actual Gold Wings of glittering memory

The last few years I haven’t ridden much. Bicycles yes, motorcycles no. Parenting, bills — you’ve either lived or have heard it. Last month I started a new job featuring a hybrid work schedule, though 80 miles away, and resumed my two-wheeled ways for the once-a-week jaunt on a previously undertaxed Suzuki V-Strom 650.

As a kid my parents affixed my grandfather’s old Honda

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