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I wanted to share a problem that happened to myself and my wife with our GL1100 interstate. As most of you know it's getting hard to find tires in the 130/90/17 size. So most tire stores want to sell you the Dunlop 404 tire in the 130/90/17 size , so I purchased a 110/90/19 front and a...

I had Dunlop 110/90/19 404 front tire on my 81 Interstate and the tire has large cracks in it only 2 years old ,less than 2000 miles, and the rear tire Dunlop 404 130/90/17 and it developed bubles in the side wall 6 of them and 4 in the tred, I called Dunlop and they would not help me on the...

I have a 1981 Black Interstate and a 1983 Red Aspencade and both have flaking around the pinstripe on the saddle bags, trunk top and side also on the false tank. Is it possiable to fix this with out complete respray ? I would guess no one would have some good one ,ha ha. But has anyone dealt...

I wanted to share an idea I had as to removing the Nut on the rear wheel of the early Goldwings when replaceing the wheel bearings. My bike is an 1981 Interstate and I wanted to replace the front and rear wheel bearings but here was a big nut looking at me and no tool to remove it. Now I know...

I have a problem with the carbs on my 81 wing, all was fine until I was pulling onto the interstate , as the bike was pulling through the gears it started to miss not all carbs, seemed like only one and if I opened the throttle full it would run fine go back to part throttle and it has that lean...

Hello all, I have been away for some time as I was not able to get on the Web site. I have my 81 Interstate running real good now , still need to work on the clear coat as the clear coat is bad but only on the pin stripe. I just picked up a 83 Aspencade with 23000 in the meter for 500. The guy...

I have a question for some of you. I own a 1981 and a 1982 GL1100I my 81 has 32000 miles and my 82 has 63000 miles. The 81 seems to have such a heavy feel to the steering at slow speeds feels like it wants to fall over and with two up it almost has a time or to. I removed the 3lb weight and that...

My name is Sonny and I live in zephyrhills, Florida. My ride is a 1981 GL1100i Interstste W/32000 miles and runs great after some work .I still need to fix the clear coat but the black color is good. I do all my own work and have been working on motorcyles for past 35 years. i am retired now...