Regular contributor Chuck Lathe from North Carolina was kind enough to grab some shots of this modded Goldwing. I’ve always liked these builds. A lot of folks don’t know that the original Goldwings were intended as performance bikes and they only became tourers when folks started setting them up that way.
Just noticed the wwwwiiiide handlebars! Jebus!
Thanks again Chuck!




Now that’s a serious looking piece of kit!
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Cool! I’d love to see more of those!
Contemplating….
Don’t really think it fits into the “cafe” category anymore than a custom dumptruck fits into the “hot rod” category.
I’d refer to it as a “custom”. Not really in the description envelope of a cafe bike.
Yeah I wasn’t quite sure what to call it exactly. I has a tracker style seat but… no.. it’s no tracker. It seems lately that “cafe” is applied universally to just about anything with low bars so what the heck. :-/ shrug..
I would have thought Bobber…
i think bad ass!
im building a similar bike. can you tell me where you bought your seat?
Mike. Go to E-bay and check out a seller that goes by the name of “Hotwing” I think that might be one of his seats. Or try his site: http://www.hotwingglass.com/ and hit the Darkwing model. Don’t ask how on earth I might know this. I have used his seats before and they are very solidly laid up.. Hope this helps.
I like it, but it’s not a tracker or cafe, or even a chopper; it’s a custom, period. I’d put a skinnier front tire but it’s pretty cool. A friend put a hidden 3-71 blower up under the “tank”, (re-routed the top frame tubes), and had the air horn for the Holley 500 cfm sticking through it. Very fast bike, especially for the 1970′s.