Goldwing on the drag strip

After riding my 2006 GL1800 GoldWing for a while I found that it had a lot of speed and power and performance. I love the way it corners and picks up speed. I got to wondering how it could do on the drag racing track. So I took it to Woodburn to test it on the 1/4 mile track. It was quite a bit of fun!

I was assigned 41 as my official racing number.

Here are my racing times showing the time it took me to run the track at various distance markers. Below the numbers is a graph showing my times. You can see I did a little better on each run. I could have squeezed out a bit more performance if I would have made a few more runs but it was pretty hot that day and I had plenty of fun on the few runs I made.

	Distance	Run Times
	in feet	4:10pm	4:18pm	4:24pm	5:04pm	5:13pm	5:27pm	5:43pm	5:53pm
	60	2.001	1.960	1.915	1.912	1.878	1.899	1.895	1.882
	330	5.462	5.494	5.408	5.390	5.339	5.325	5.316	5.333
1/8 mile	660	8.435	8.497	8.398	8.370	8.291	8.271	8.270	8.297
	1000	11.082	11.167	11.004	11.010	10.930	10.896	10.903	10.899
1/4 mile	1320	13.362	13.473	13.329	13.315	13.227	13.171	13.171	13.138

Can you believe that I actually drag raced a GoldWing? I can't either. But it was a lot of fun and proved that I could keep up with the racing bikes. The other bikes out this day were all modified specifically for drag racing and each weighed between 500 and 550 pounds. The 2006 GoldWing was right off the factory floor with no modifications and weighed about 835 pounds according to the manual. The racing bikes were all running slightly faster than me. I reached 99.84 miles an hour in the 1/4 mile track on my last two runs. The racking bikes were running 105-119 miles an hour. So, think this is an old man's bike?