Don't be shocked when you come to sell it - If the buyer does not look impressed with your handy work there !! . Over the pond here in the UK the current trend now is for a clean bear factory looking bike - Either done retro mod style - from the factory paint job ! or original from the factory .
A listing on EBAY the other week over here the wing was a 1989 - Just a bare bike factory looking bike - not chromed to death and looking like a scene from close encounters of the third kind !! with all the lights on it - lol - That bike went for £4000 pounds !! not bad when consider its age !! - Yes ??? .
I have seen other wings bling to death !! over here and people selling them and getting very little interest from buyer's even though the bike's had been well maintained with a ream of paper work to go with it too !! .
Whatever you do to your wing !! - Just remember this !! - You might think a shocking bright pink custom !! wing is cool with a air brushed ken and Barbie on the side panels and trunk !! and led lights around the windscreen and named pink lady too boot doodled on the fairing side - lol - But you got to ask yourself this too !! - Is a new buyer going to like it also ??. You could end up appealing to a very narrow market of buyers indeed yes or even worse none at all !! - Yes ??.
EXAMPLE OF THIS BELOW !! - WOULD YOU BUY THIS ??
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I have seen over the years on wings - Air brushed wolf's heads to naked lady's -or names painted on the sides - Even one guy mold his own panels for the wing too and renamed the bike hat trick !! . ( see video below ) .
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I have a couple of friends who break wings for parts and sell the parts on too !! . They tell me time and time again - When they break a wing and its been customized or as they call it sodomized !! - lol. They can not sell the plastics on again !!. Lately too the custom stuff they take off the bikes is just not selling like it did anymore !! ?? .
The wind of change is coming over this side of the pond bling is out !! - Your bike looking like a drug dealers car and Jewellery box !! has gone - Lol - This is just not cool anymore !! - Sticking a car radio in your wing is not cool either !!
EXAMPLE OF OVER BLING !! - OVER DONE !! WING !!
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I defo think there is a balance to be struck here between improvement and upgrade !! or Alice in wonder land on drugs doing LSD !! - Yes !! ?? -lol .





If you go over the EBAY completed listings for the Goldwing 1500's - You will soon see what's selling and to be honest - "what's not either too !!" .
This should provide a base line tool !! - Ask yourself " what made you buy your wing !! ?? " - And what put you off buying
others too!! ?? .
EXAMPLE OF FACTORY LOOKING BIKE !!
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EXAMPLE OF MIDDLE OF THE ROAD WING
( " A Goldilocks wing " Not to much Bling and not to little " and well maintained " "Just right !! )-
Yes it is "wing admins - !!- Lol



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Some people spend thousands and thousands on their wing knowing they will never get it back either !! - This fine if you plan to keep the bike long term - If not - Simple don't do it - Keep the bike well maintained and up to scratch if you do that !! it will sell its self come sale time !! .
Lastly -
Time to poke the bear here !! -
Watch these vids - Everyone has a opinion about their Goldwing - Yes ?? Even the latest 2020 model is like marmite to some people ( you either love it or you hate it !! )
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