Hi Chris!
The Symba 100... I'd heard of 'em, but assumed they were just another China clone scoot... but Taiwan means they're higher quality stuff. I'm certain that the SpongeBob backpack makes it good for another 2hp, but advertised 60mph on 100cc, that's quite the machine. It's off the GoldWing topic, but since they look rather similar to the Honda Dreams (and I'm sure they took excellent notes in the design room), I'm calling it 'okay' if you'd be willing to give us a riding impression, and tell us how it compares to your Triumph and Goldwing.
My history is predominantly '79 CX500D of rediculously high miles, and the reliability of that bike was a pretty high standard. I had a Sportster (79/80 1000cc) which was far and above any other motorcycle I owned in terms of noise, vibration, oil and fuel drips, brake effort, and turning radius :smilie_happy: but I started on a KZ400, I owned a KZ-250 that got 'reduced' to a bare-bones cafe-style... I've got a Suzuki GN-400 of same styling (for lifting into the back of my company truck), a CX650C, a Suzuki GS750E with Windjammer... I've also owned an '82 GPz-750 Turbo (in Kenny Roberts Green). Thanks to my uncle, I've ridden BMW twins from the '50's to 2010, an early '50's Ariel Square Four (which felt fascinatingly like operating a combine harvester) and a BSA Rocket 3 that shocked the crap out'a me in a right-hand turn... Harley FatBoys, softail springers, Lowriders, Superglides, RoadGlides and police bikes... I've also ridden Honda and Suzuki 49cc mopeds, a Suzuki GT-550, Kawasaki KZ-454LTD, my dad's Honda 115cc EFI scooter, and I've got a Chinese 150CC scooter that... well... it's chineese. I've got a cousin in Europe who has all sorts of cycles that I've ridden, most I don't recall, but the Suzuki RE-5 (Wankel Rotary) and GT750 (water-buffalo), and one late '80's Honda NSR-500V that was rediculously, obscenely, too-scary-fast to ride (power wheelie in 3rd gear at 110mph...)... oh, and one Boss Hoss with a mild 350ci Corvette motor.
My initial thoughts on the 'wing, from just looking at them, is that they're big, cushy, smooth, slow-handling, geriatric machines...
And those thoughts are perfectly correct until the 'slow handling, geriatric' part. They're surprisingly sprightly in handling, and loaded with power. I've yet to scrape the engine guards, pegs, or saddlebags on the pavement, but I've earned plenty of opportunities to upset the local constibulary, just being energetic in riding...
And I love this thing... just love it. The loose plastic parts fallin' off, carb problems, electrical gremlins, and fading plastic are totally irrelevant... if I keep this (and I tend not to 'get rid' of things I like), it'll probably get seriously stripped down, simplified, and reassembled with every possible thing fixed, and every unnecessary gadget, cover, and trinket nix'd in lieu of functionality... and I'll ride it 'till there's no two moving parts in it that physically touch anymore. :moped: