Motorcycle Sport and Leisure Magazine - March 1997

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RING 'CYCLE
   What happens to a Gold Wing when you tune the engine, discard fairing, panniers and stereo, and style it like a custom cruiser? Is it transformed into a muscle-bound, sultry-smooth cruise or is it just a 'Wing which has lost it's way? Then again, maybe Honda is right, and it's latest cruiser "redefines another section of the market". Ian Kerr has come to a decision.

Motorcycle Sport and Leisure Magazine - July 1996

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First Aquaintance: Here comes the Valkyrie
   What do you call a motorcycle that's 38 inches across the bars and more than 8 feet long? The Valkyrie. That's what! Made in Honda's Marysville Ohio factory in the US of A, and powered by a tuned version of the highly acclaimed 1520cc, flat-six Gold Wing motor, that first came to the UK in 1988, the Valkyrie weighs in at 310kg (682lbs) and looks simply stunning. On paper, it outpoints all it's competitors by a huge margin but is it, as Honda claim, poised to take on the mantle of the "baddest bike on the boulevard"?