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Hi, John!
Thanks for your post. It would appear that you probably have not had a lot to do with the GL1500. All of us that have 1500s have gotten used to an honest motorcycle. True enough it is called your father's sedan, but it is a really great machine.
The GL1500 has the most accurate speedometer and odometer of any vehicle I have ever had. The speedo is within a needle width of dead on at any speed up to 100 mph and the odometer is within 1/4 %.
Even those lying speedometers usually have reasonably accurate odomenters.
My latest GL1500, a 93 SE, has now 253,000 on it and just recently I again checked its speedo against the GPS V and it was still dead on up to 105, and it was still within 0.2 miles at 100 miles on the odometer.
The GL1800 will go farther on a tank of gas by quite a bit, but a lot less than the odometer says it does.
I drove my 01 1800 313 miles on a tank and the odometer said 325. I still had a quarter gallon left.
The 1800 is a good bike. My new 04 is even better except the red is not as luxurious as my Pearl Blue was. There is no reason to lie about its performance. It is good enough honestly. I think it is a bad call to dump the 1800 Wing in the mess with the bikes that have to fib about how fast they go. Who cares?
However, if the sign says your exit is 24 miles ahead, you will have passed it a mile back if you use your odometer to tell you when to turn and that is BS as far as I am concerned.
I prefer to cruise at speed limit plus 9. With this speedo it is plus 13 so I just us the GPS. Why have a speedo if it is not reliable?.
When the GPS becomes a standard accessory, Honda will have to straighten up their act because there is no hiding from the accuracy of GPS.
yello3dan, thanks for the follow up on the Avon and Metzler!
Thanks for your post. It would appear that you probably have not had a lot to do with the GL1500. All of us that have 1500s have gotten used to an honest motorcycle. True enough it is called your father's sedan, but it is a really great machine.
The GL1500 has the most accurate speedometer and odometer of any vehicle I have ever had. The speedo is within a needle width of dead on at any speed up to 100 mph and the odometer is within 1/4 %.
Even those lying speedometers usually have reasonably accurate odomenters.
My latest GL1500, a 93 SE, has now 253,000 on it and just recently I again checked its speedo against the GPS V and it was still dead on up to 105, and it was still within 0.2 miles at 100 miles on the odometer.
The GL1800 will go farther on a tank of gas by quite a bit, but a lot less than the odometer says it does.
I drove my 01 1800 313 miles on a tank and the odometer said 325. I still had a quarter gallon left.
The 1800 is a good bike. My new 04 is even better except the red is not as luxurious as my Pearl Blue was. There is no reason to lie about its performance. It is good enough honestly. I think it is a bad call to dump the 1800 Wing in the mess with the bikes that have to fib about how fast they go. Who cares?
However, if the sign says your exit is 24 miles ahead, you will have passed it a mile back if you use your odometer to tell you when to turn and that is BS as far as I am concerned.
I prefer to cruise at speed limit plus 9. With this speedo it is plus 13 so I just us the GPS. Why have a speedo if it is not reliable?.
When the GPS becomes a standard accessory, Honda will have to straighten up their act because there is no hiding from the accuracy of GPS.
yello3dan, thanks for the follow up on the Avon and Metzler!

