Honda Gold Wing

Honda Gold Wing - Blue On The Road

The Honda Silver Side has lengthy organised the name of globe's best visiting motorbike, but when the GL1000 was first presented in 1975, without any of the gadgetry and safety fairing for which the bicycle is popular, it was not clear what objective the bicycle was intended to provide. The unique  Honda Silver Side was too hefty (635 lbs. completely fueled) and too slowly (80 horsepower) to be a efficiency bicycle, and it was too big (60.5” wheelbase) to be regarded a conventional. Honda charged it as a “do-it-all” bicycle, but by the end of 1975  Honda Silver Side entrepreneurs recognized exactly what the bicycle was intended for — relaxed long-distance driving. Thus the visiting bicycle was designed.

What set the  Honda Silver Side apart from other motorbike was its liquid-cooled, smooth four-cylinder Engine — up to that point it was the easiest engine to ever power a motorbike. Released without a fairing or baggage,  Honda Silver Side entrepreneurs themselves described what the development of the bicycle would be by buying and attaching Vetter Windjammer fairings to their Silver Pizza.  Honda  mentioned this popular addition and in 1980 designed the GL1100 Silver Side in both conventional and fully-faired editions.

The 1980  Honda Silver Side Road was the first motorbike to function a completely incorporated color-matched fairing and baggage. Two years later the  Honda Silver Side Aspencade (named after a popular Silver Side rally) was released and made conventional equipment such as the stereo system, built-in intercom system that was optionally available on the Road as well as presented new elements such as an on-board air-compressor for modifying the Aspencade’s revocation. The GL1200  Honda Silver Side of 1984 was more of an development than a trend for the Silver Side line.  Honda designed a undressed edition for the first season of the 1200 but it was decreased for 1985 and a undressed  Honda Silver Side would never be designed again.

Honda Gold Wing - Silver

Honda Gold Wing - Touring

Honda Gold Wing - Dash Board Indicator

In 1988 the GL1500  Honda Silver Side was released and, like the unique Road design, it set a new standard for what a visiting motorbike could be. A flat in a trench compared six-cylinder engine displacing 1520cc operated the new Silver Side. With a 66.9” wheelbase and with a weight of 876 lbs. full of fluids, the new 1500  Honda Silver Side was bigger and bulkier than the GL1200, but the new bicycle managed better. Also assisting move the large Silver Side was another driving first, an electrically-operated opposite drive.

The GL1500  Honda Silver Side experienced an amazing 13-year run with various improvements until being changed by the GL1800  Honda Silver Side in 2001. Still using a smooth, six-cylinder engine but with an increase in displacement to 1832 cc, the new Silver Wing’s greatest difference over the past design was the use of an metal, sportbike-esque shape. In 2006 the GL1800  Honda Silver Side was the first development motorbike with an airbag.

From 1981 to 2009  Honda Silver Side designs were designed at Honda’s first U.S. flower situated in Marysville, Oh. More than one thousand  Honda Silver Side motorbikes were designed in the plant’s 30-year history, before Silver Side development was shifted to Asia.