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Found I have a hernia. No fitness for this guy for a while. Just more pancakes. I'll be the salmon of this bunch.

@OmgFrigginMike , my 'Wing is a 2024 with manual shift, not the DCT. Everywhere I went they talked up the DCT, but I like deciding what gear and when. @Calvin, good instincts and assessment. The Indian was indeed very comfortable to sit on, and I miss having floorboards on the Wing. The Ultimate seat made a huge difference, and I put on a set of "Comfort Bars" to give me highway pegs and a little tip-over protection. The windshield is adjustable, I put a Quiet Werks windscreen on. It's wider and has the recurve lip at the top. Cruise control is pretty good on the GW, I read that it may be reactive on the Indian, which would be awesome.

The majority of my riding is two-up on curvy two lane roads. Tennessee is full of roads like that. Any time I'm headed somewhere I usually have between 3 and 6 options as to route. Deer and tractors abound and are usually just around the next corner or over the next of many hills. Nimble handling and powerful braking is a must. When I lived in Texas, also in Kansas, most rides were; find a road, ride out until time to turn around and come bad on the same road. Not here, big loops in whatever direction. I noticed in my research that much is made of the Indian's superior radio, I don't care. I listen to music at home, and in my truck, but not on a bike. Unimportant distraction, for me.

If I'm not mistaken the Goldwing is, in fact, "made" in America about as much as any other bike. Ft. Wayne Indiana, I think. I could be wrong about that. My first instinct about the private equity thing is the same as yours, Calvin. We'll see what happens, but that is the way of the corporate world. Go cheap, screw the workers and squeeze the last dime out of the customers, as long as the soulless bosses get their gold.

Thanks to all for your input here. It helps. I wish I could get the Indian's floorboards and saddlebags on the GW, but, life is an endless series of compromises.