Question for Goldwing kit manufacturers

[cavie]

Why can't the manufactures offer a Goldwing with the seats and tour box moved back 8" to 12" back?? We all know this is the biggest complaint with the Goldwing. Probably the only real complaint. If they did that I would own one. legroom is the only reason I don't have one. At least I have a Honda.

 

[kwputt]

Cavie, it can be done. Not the 8 to 12 inches you mentioned but you can get 5 inches. That puts the top tour pak in line with the top of the lower trunk lid on a CSC Viper kit. The Boss was all smiles when she got on and could sit without her knees being cramped.

 

[cavie]

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that's why I want the manufacturers to move drivers seat moved back so my knees aren't cramped and add pull back risers.

 

[Trikindan]

Cavie, it can be done. Not the 8 to 12 inches you mentioned but you can get 5 inches. That puts the top tour pak in line with the top of the lower trunk lid on a CSC Viper kit. The Boss was all smiles when she got on and could sit without her knees being cramped.

How is this that you speak of??? Inquiring:xzqxz: minds want to know....

 

[kwputt]

Removed the top box, added a piece of 1/4 annealed aluminum, re-drilled the holes for the top box mount in the new plate and the fun began. I cut the bottom shelf off of the top box, where the radios were installed. This allowed the top box to set flush on the plate. The cavity in the trike body that the bottom shelf of the top box was occupying, is where I mounted a weather tight aluminum box to put the radios back in there original location. No radio wires to splice this way.

The wire loom for the Navi is long enough to allow the unit to be kept in the original location without splicing any wires. The wire loom for the back seat speakers can be relocated, no splices needed again. I did splice the wires for all of the lighting and electric trunk lock with heat shrink crimp connectors. I had to make a new bottom trunk release cable.

This CSC Viper kit did not have an emergency bottom trunk release cable, as a lot of other kits do. I added this to the cable just in case my bottom trunk release fails.

Took the seat to a local shop where they removed the cover, trimmed the foam to remove the raised portion on the copilot part of the seat. He then made a new 5" wide cushion to fill the void created by moving the top box.

 

[kwputt]

The same procedure could be done and send the seat off to a builder to have the driver portion of the seat made larger. Don't know if the seat pan would need to be modified for this or not. I'm no expert on modifications by any means, but I have the tools and the time and enjoy a challenge. When the Honda shop that built the kit told me it couldn't be done, it was game on.

 

[Veritas44]

Nice! :clapping:
Good ol' Ingenuity, Initiative and Individual Resolve.
Unfortunately a "Lost Art" and foreign Concept for far too many in this Day & Age
Salute & Kudos Sir ThumbUp

 

[Rosy]

People keep asking about more room for tall people and the rest of the conversion companies will start doing it. "If you built it, they will come"
at times I am glad I am short in stature! LOL
kwputt, that's the knowledge you get from playing with those piggies all those years. They don't make it, so you build it!
Great job in explaining to procedure to add leg room!

Rosy

 

[kwputt]

Rosy the trip to the rally in Vermont last fall made the Boss's knees ache by the time we got home and that was only 2600 miles. We're leaving the end of June for Montana, so I figured it would be best for my health and mental well being to make some improvements to her end of the trike. The copilot seating has been the only real complaint I've had with either of the GW trikes we've owned. First warm day we'll head out for a 150 mile stretch and see how big an improvement it really is.
Take care Rosy.

 

[Trikindan]

Good job!!! Lots of food for thought there.:goodjob: