u/Livingdivineus

Been going in circles on this planning a longer run on the 2024 Wing.

One way: find the roads you want, string them together, then figure out where you're sleeping - and accept that some nights you're rolling into a town at 8pm taking whatever has a vacancy.

Other way: lock the overnights first, because a bad motel at the end of 400 miles ruins the next day more than a boring stretch of road does, then connect them with the best pavement you can find in between.

Both have an obvious failure mode. Book ahead and you end up doing slab in the afternoon to make a reservation. Wing it and you're hunting for a room at dusk in a town that doesn't have one.

Which camp are you in, and how far ahead do you actually book? Curious whether the two-up riders answer this differently than the solo guys.

Not the famous stuff. Not the road everyone already flies across three states to ride. The 20 miles you'd actually take a visiting rider on if they showed up at your door on a Saturday with half a day to kill.

I'm in central Jersey. Mine is NY-97 along the Upper Delaware from Hawk's Nest to about Callicoon - the Hawk's Nest section gets all the photos, but the 30 miles after it, where the river opens up and the traffic disappears, is the part I actually go back for.

Post yours with the start and end point so people can actually ride it. Half the reason good roads stay unknown is that nobody ever says where they begin.

Planning a run through the Delaware Water Gap last week I asked around for a lunch stop. Someone said take the little detour to a place outside East Stroudsburg - outdoor tiki bar, gazebos, cash only. I checked: it added 3 miles and about 7 minutes. Easily the best part of the day.

That got me thinking about how badly we all judge detours. Nobody ever regrets the 10-minute one. Everybody has a story about the 2-hour "shortcut to a scenic overlook" that turned out to be a gravel road and a locked gate.

So let's put numbers on it. What's the best detour you've ever taken, and roughly what did it cost you in time? Bonus points for the worst one too - I want to know what the actual exchange rate is between minutes and memories.

Got a lesson in this last week. I asked around for a food stop on US-209 near the Delaware Water Gap and someone came back with Pub 447 outside East Stroudsburg - outdoor tiki bar, gazebos, cash only with an ATM inside. Went digging afterward and it isn't in OpenStreetMap at all, so no planning app was ever going to put it in front of me.

Same week another rider pointed me at campgrounds on the Blue Ridge I'd never have found, and someone else flagged which nearby roads had construction that no map was showing.

That's the pattern: the stuff that actually makes a multi-day trip good lives in someone's head, not in map data.

So what's yours? The campground with a shower that actually works, the diner that opens early enough for a 6am start, the last real gas for 80 miles, the pull-off with the view and no sign. Where is it and what makes it worth planning around?

My modern DCT Goldwing is stalling while I am slowing down. It is not happening at a complete stop—it cuts out while decelerating from 50 mph down to around 30 mph.
We checked the battery terminals and they were a bit loose, so we tightened them up, but it didn't solve any problem. The engine still shuts down on deceleration. On top of that, the dash isn't showing which riding mode I am in anymore and it won't let me switch between manual and DCT.
I tried doing the standard DCT clutch initialization procedure to see if that would fix the stalling. I could hear the clicking from the DCT and the bar would flash every 2 seconds, but then it just started flashing rapidly and failed. During the initialization attempt, I could also hear a sound like small metal pieces jumping around inside.
Now I also have an amber Hill Start Control error light on the dash (H with an exclamation mark). I checked all the fuses, including the 5A ABS ECU fuse, and everything is completely fine.
I am giving up on it for tonight and riding it as is back home to New Jersey tomorrow morning since it still starts and gets into Drive. If anyone has experienced this exact combination of problems—stalling while slowing down at speed, lost ride modes, a failed initialization with a rattling sound, and the H! light—let me know what the actual issue turned out to be.

My modern DCT Goldwing is stalling while I am slowing down. It is not happening at a complete stop—it cuts out while decelerating from 50 mph down to around 30 mph.
We checked the battery terminals and they were a bit loose, so we tightened them up, but it didn't solve any problem. The engine still shuts down on deceleration. On top of that, the dash isn't showing which riding mode I am in anymore and it won't let me switch between manual and DCT.
I tried doing the standard DCT clutch initialization procedure to see if that would fix the stalling. I could hear the clicking from the DCT and the bar would flash every 2 seconds, but then it just started flashing rapidly and failed. During the initialization attempt, I could also hear a sound like small metal pieces jumping around inside.
Now I also have an amber Hill Start Control error light on the dash (H with an exclamation mark). I checked all the fuses, including the 5A ABS ECU fuse, and everything is completely fine.
I am giving up on it for tonight and riding it as is back home to New Jersey tomorrow morning since it still starts and gets into Drive. If anyone has experienced this exact combination of problems—stalling while slowing down at speed, lost ride modes, a failed initialization with a rattling sound, and the H! light—let me know what the actual issue turned out to be.

My modern DCT Goldwing is stalling while I am slowing down. It is not happening at a complete stop—it cuts out while decelerating from 50 mph down to around 30 mph.
We checked the battery terminals and they were a bit loose, so we tightened them up, but it didn't solve any problem. The engine still shuts down on deceleration. On top of that, the dash isn't showing which riding mode I am in anymore and it won't let me switch between manual and DCT.
I tried doing the standard DCT clutch initialization procedure to see if that would fix the stalling. I could hear the clicking from the DCT and the bar would flash every 2 seconds, but then it just started flashing rapidly and failed. During the initialization attempt, I could also hear a sound like small metal pieces jumping around inside.
Now I also have an amber Hill Start Control error light on the dash (H with an exclamation mark). I checked all the fuses, including the 5A ABS ECU fuse, and everything is completely fine.
I am giving up on it for tonight and riding it as is back home to New Jersey tomorrow morning since it still starts and gets into Drive. If anyone has experienced this exact combination of problems—stalling while slowing down at speed, lost ride modes, a failed initialization with a rattling sound, and the H! light—let me know what the actual issue turned out to be.

My modern DCT Goldwing is stalling while I am slowing down. It is not happening at a complete stop—it cuts out while decelerating from 50 mph down to around 30 mph.
We checked the battery terminals and they were a bit loose, so we tightened them up, but it didn't solve any problem. The engine still shuts down on deceleration. On top of that, the dash isn't showing which riding mode I am in anymore and it won't let me switch between manual and DCT.
I tried doing the standard DCT clutch initialization procedure to see if that would fix the stalling. I could hear the clicking from the DCT and the bar would flash every 2 seconds, but then it just started flashing rapidly and failed. During the initialization attempt, I could also hear a sound like small metal pieces jumping around inside.
Now I also have an amber Hill Start Control error light on the dash (H with an exclamation mark). I checked all the fuses, including the 5A ABS ECU fuse, and everything is completely fine.
I am giving up on it for tonight and riding it as is back home to New Jersey tomorrow morning since it still starts and gets into Drive. If anyone has experienced this exact combination of problems—stalling while slowing down at speed, lost ride modes, a failed initialization with a rattling sound, and the H! light—let me know what the actual issue turned out to be.

My modern DCT Goldwing is stalling while I am slowing down. It is not happening at a complete stop—it cuts out while decelerating from 50 mph down to around 30 mph.
We checked the battery terminals and they were a bit loose, so we tightened them up, but it didn't solve any problem. The engine still shuts down on deceleration. On top of that, the dash isn't showing which riding mode I am in anymore and it won't let me switch between manual and DCT.
I tried doing the standard DCT clutch initialization procedure to see if that would fix the stalling. I could hear the clicking from the DCT and the bar would flash every 2 seconds, but then it just started flashing rapidly and failed. During the initialization attempt, I could also hear a sound like small metal pieces jumping around inside.
Now I also have an amber Hill Start Control error light on the dash (H with an exclamation mark). I checked all the fuses, including the 5A ABS ECU fuse, and everything is completely fine.
I am giving up on it for tonight and riding it as is back home to New Jersey tomorrow morning since it still starts and gets into Drive. If anyone has experienced this exact combination of problems—stalling while slowing down at speed, lost ride modes, a failed initialization with a rattling sound, and the H! light—let me know what the actual issue turned out to be.

My modern DCT Goldwing is stalling while I am slowing down. It is not happening at a complete stop—it cuts out while decelerating from 50 mph down to around 30 mph.
We checked the battery terminals and they were a bit loose, so we tightened them up, but it didn't solve any problem. The engine still shuts down on deceleration. On top of that, the dash isn't showing which riding mode I am in anymore and it won't let me switch between manual and DCT.
I tried doing the standard DCT clutch initialization procedure to see if that would fix the stalling. I could hear the clicking from the DCT and the bar would flash every 2 seconds, but then it just started flashing rapidly and failed. During the initialization attempt, I could also hear a sound like small metal pieces jumping around inside.
Now I also have an amber Hill Start Control error light on the dash (H with an exclamation mark). I checked all the fuses, including the 5A ABS ECU fuse, and everything is completely fine.
I am giving up on it for tonight and riding it as is back home to New Jersey tomorrow morning since it still starts and gets into Drive. If anyone has experienced this exact combination of problems—stalling while slowing down at speed, lost ride modes, a failed initialization with a rattling sound, and the H! light—let me know what the actual issue turned out to be.

My modern DCT Goldwing is stalling while I am slowing down. It is not happening at a complete stop—it cuts out while decelerating from 50 mph down to around 30 mph.
We checked the battery terminals and they were a bit loose, so we tightened them up, but it didn't solve any problem. The engine still shuts down on deceleration. On top of that, the dash isn't showing which riding mode I am in anymore and it won't let me switch between manual and DCT.
I tried doing the standard DCT clutch initialization procedure to see if that would fix the stalling. I could hear the clicking from the DCT and the bar would flash every 2 seconds, but then it just started flashing rapidly and failed. During the initialization attempt, I could also hear a sound like small metal pieces jumping around inside.
Now I also have an amber Hill Start Control error light on the dash (H with an exclamation mark). I checked all the fuses, including the 5A ABS ECU fuse, and everything is completely fine.
I am giving up on it for tonight and riding it as is back home to New Jersey tomorrow morning since it still starts and gets into Drive. If anyone has experienced this exact combination of problems—stalling while slowing down at speed, lost ride modes, a failed initialization with a rattling sound, and the H! light—let me know what the actual issue turned out to be.