All Duels – Duel Goldwing Vs Roadmaster: carriages with agile feet! – All that glitters is not ” Gold ” …

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Duel Goldwing Vs Roadmaster: carriages with agile feet !

All Duels - Duel Goldwing Vs Roadmaster: carriages with agile feet! - All that glitters is not '' Gold '' ...

The Honda Goldwing and the Indian Roadmaster satisfy, each in its own way, the desire for absolute comfort on a motorbike, large engines generous in sensations and luxury. With a bluffing common point on such ultra-road: an amazing dynamism ! Duel.

All that glitters is not ‘Gold’…

For lack of standard GPS on the – one of the rare shortcomings to blame it -, MNC navigates "on sight" to reach the Highway Custom concession in Pontault-Combault (77), where we have to recover another heavyweight from the ultra-road motorcycles category: the (see our).

Our sense of direction – relatively efficient … – soon leads us down the wrong path, leading to a fairly tight U-turn on the handlebars of the Honda just a few minutes after sitting down on it. leather saddle with remarkable comfort. And as a duo, with his luggage of over 150 liters weighted with all our usual gear, to make matters worse !

On most motorcycles exceeding 400 kg (413 kg for the "golden wing"), the situation would lead at best to a slight apprehension, at worst a refusal of an obstacle characterized with urgent search for an escape! But on the Goldwing’s handlebars, the maneuver is carried out without stress or effort, thanks to its excellent turning radius and perfect balance..

A real "conveyor belt" capable of relaunching its six-pistons in its 5th and last gear from 750 rpm (seven hundred and fifty turns!) At only 30 km / h! More impressive: even at the bottom of the tachometer, its flat 6-cylinder shows an exquisite smoothness and surprising vigor, offering a reserve of elasticity and torque (167 Nm at 4000 rpm) unrivaled in motorcycle production.

Certainly, the "Gold" is not really an unknown for MNC, and this also explains the ease with which it is (re) delivered to us (reread in particular our, our and our).

But the fact that she is a recent acquaintance with the Motorcycle Journal of the Net does not change the observation of excellence achieved by: the Goldwing is an authentic masterpiece, achieving the feat of combining luxury, comfort and dynamism since already four decades (read also our).

Faced with this particularly enviable – and envied – balance between efficiency and pleasure, the Indian Roadmaster is playing big: this is not the first time that a motorcycle – especially American – has taken on the Goldwing … but without real success so far. Generally, the GL1800 widens the advantage thanks to its fair compromise between absolute comfort and dynamic capacities….

In other words: making an ultra-comfortable "ultra-road" is something within reach of almost all of Honda’s rivals, but designing a "rolling palace" capable of running well while remaining reasonably manoeuvrable is quite another! It is no coincidence that the Goldwing has become the darling of motorcycle taxis … although depending on the point of view, this success undermines its "exceptional" dimension.

However, the Indian Roadmaster has several assets likely to shake the benchmark, starting with the modernity of its design. A guarantee of a certain dynamism, precisely, this approach is inspired by that in force on Victory motorcycles, the custom brand of the Polaris group which .

A "modern" 422 kg custom? Or even dynamic enough to worry the Gold? It’s like a kept election promise, an election without shenanigans, a teenager without acne or a religion without conflicts: does it not exist ?! And yet, if: the proof in detail on the following pages…

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