I own a '13 F6B, and the shifting quality is typical Goldwing; i.e. clunky and noisy in the lower 2 gears. I test drove a demo '15 Valk that had about 15k km on it, and I assume being a Honda Demo Days test bike, had been beat on regularly. I was amazed at how smooth and quiet the trans was. It sounded and shifted like a sport bike, click-click-click through the gears. There was absolutely no clunking of the gearbox and shifts could be made easily and lightning quick.
Is this typical of all Valk's, or was the one I drove so broken in that it was on the way to failure?
Is this typical of all Valk's, or was the one I drove so broken in that it was on the way to failure?