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I grew up around Goldwings and have one myself 16 (😯) years ago for a little while... so when this came up (about 5 miles away) I couldn't resist! It has a few daft problems... nothing to serious or difficult to fix... but I love it!

I can hear it now already: Didn't I tell you to go fishing,,,, annnnd what did you bring me???? NOTHING???? Just where did you go?? What WERE you doing???

The hose goes on cyl #1 but you often see it on #2 because #2 is often mistaken as #1 simply because it is the left front cyl. when in fact the left rear is #1 while the left front is actually #2. Re: the boots there are only 2 part numbers 26H-13586-00-00 and 26H-13596-00-00. The bike uses two of each. A1-2, A2-1, and A3-1 are more than likely mold or batch numbers and meaningless to us unless there was a recall on a certain batch related to some sort of defect in that particular batch

Hate when that happens. You can try cleaning the hole out with brake clean and air pressure. Drop a tiny amount of JB Weld aluminum epoxy into the hole. Coat a slightly too long bolt with light grease or heavy oil and thread bolt in until it just about bottoms out after the epoxy has cured back the bolt out. wait at least 24 hours before reassembling. 50/50 chance it will work but have had good luck with this when I came across similar situations were someone ran in too long a bolt (usually happens with plastic rad tanks or two piece aluminum valve covers).

Back in my day our school classes all began with prayer and the pledge of alligiance to The Flag of The United States of America. Schwinn bicycles had solid steel fork tubes that would perfectly slide inside of the cut off forks of a Huffy bicycle giving even the poorest of children of my day a chance at building and owning a chopper that not even the coolest 5 speed Lemon Peeler, Orange or Apple crate machine could compete with - CUSTOM'S RULED the planet in my day!! The second half of The Wizard of Oz had not been adapted to color yet and The Lone Ranger could still be heard on the radio. Ben Cartright, Marshall Dillon and The Rifleman taught respect for self and for law and order on TV back in my day and taught us children that all lives matter. People young and old actually listened very carefully when our President, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, spoke to them about threats from within our country that were trying to change our way of life to that of Communism or Socialism and those same people, young and old actually cried when his life was taken for his stand for Freedom and our way of life. Those same people would shed more tears as his brother, Bobby, was also slain and another great lover of American Freedom, Dr. Martin Luther King was also assassinated. Adults were always addressed by Mr. or Mrs. back in my day and even blood relatives were addressed with "Aunt" or "Uncle" before stating their 1st names. Even the rolling of the eyes at a School teacher would earn you a sampling of how much a Cedar Paddle could sting and, upon arrival at home,, that sample would be reinforced by a contest between your Dad and the Teacher of who could make that paddle sting the worstest.. Real soap was used for cleansing of the tongue if curse words were heard slipping from the lips of a kid back in my day. Sonic BOOMS were common place as the best of the best of our Armed Forces broke sound barriers to constantly assure those of us below that they were there for us. Back in my day everyone knew everyone and social events like Trick or Treat started when you walked out the door of your house in your neighborhood and didn't stop until the last paper sack was filled for the night. Older kids who picked on little kids, even during trick or treat, got beat up by kids bigger than them cause at that time picking on someone your own size meant something as did the signs on bathroom doors back in my day. Boys went to battle on the grid iron and girls stood on the side lines and cheered for their school mates of the opposite sex to win for their team. If needed, after becoming grown men, some of those same boys went to war to protect and defend their families at home and way of life while some of those same girls who were cheerleaders became Mom's and proudly stayed at home and continued the making sure that the families who their men were off fighting for continued to get the upbringings that their children deserved. Back in my day dentist offices had really small porcelin toilet shaped bowls with water swirling around in them to spit blood into but only kids who didn't tell their parents that their tooth hurt knew about this and T.B. tests at school didn't really hurt that much but some kids would yell as loud as they could when they got tested just to draw attention to themselves. If you got hungry before lunch time during your stint in elementary school back in my day, you could always get by on eating class room paste, it was very plentiful and none of us boys believed it was made from dead horses like we were told back in my day but we always reassured the girls that it was. Speaking of girls back in my day, they wore saddle shoes and boys went bare footed during the summer.. Girls also wore dresses during the summer and boys wore cut off blue jeans and old tee shirts if they wore shirts at all. Later in life those same girls wore these things called "Mini-Skirts" (I really like those Mini Skirts) and the boys still wore jeans and tee shirts but by then it was no longer cool to cut the legs off em so we all wore em long legged - another thing that changed was our haircuts,, all of us boys started wearing our hair like "The Beatles" from a far off place called England and stopped wearing Princeton Haircuts.. I am not sure if I wrote this already but I like REALLY liked girls in Mini Skirts and was saddened when that phase of girls dresses stopped later in my day.. The FM radio had not been invented yet back in my day but AM radio's were everywhere. My favorite local disc jockey had a really low bass voice and I always imagined him as 6' 5''inches tall with great big muscles but, when our high school sponsored a Donkey Basketball game between the faculty and local prominent people - I found out that my favorite disc jockey radio hero was actually only 5' 3'' inches tall and had a HUGE Adams apple. This taught me a life lesson that just because you think something is so does not mean it is so - a very valuable life lesson from back in my day.. I also learned, at a very young age,, that Donkeys or "Jack Asses" of my day really couldn't play basket ball - they weren't that smart. I am not sure if the Jack Asses of today could do any better but,, considering how much things have changed comparing my day to today's day,, I have a hunch that modern day Jack Asses could not do any better.. The End