Goldwings are very well built, good looking and long lasting machines! Maintenance is relatively inexpensive, and you can put 100k miles on one if you want to (before you get run over -- too likely to happen with any make).

I've owned three bikes. First was a Bultaco Matador (enduro 250, barely street legal), Italian; the shift and brake levers were opposite of regular bikes. It had a top speed of 50 mph, but it would climb small buildings.

Second was a Kawasaki KZ400 street bike, bought new, a great machine made in Omaha, was my only transportation for two years in Colorado. That bike started in below-zero weather, and I rode it everyday. No fair weather rider here...

Third was a Yamaha IT600, a single cylinder thumper enduro that was racing modified. That bike scared me. I could bring the front wheel up with a simple twist of the throttle in any gear. I like going fast, but I hadn't, and still haven't, figured out how to use the front wheel as a rudder, as opposed to steering with it on the ground! It had a tach but no speedometer, so I was either gonna kill myself with too much speed and power or get enough speeding tickets to go to prison, or, the third option, sell the bike. I sold the bike. I should have known better....the guy I bought it from was a semi-professional racer. That bike was just one of 14 that he had in his garage. He had just bought a faster streetable machine and needed the garage space for the new bike!