The 2010 GL1800 is shown as a white bike on Knutsford Hionda’s website and you can view it by pasting this url into your browser:

/www.knutsfordhonda.co.uk/content/pages/honda/honda_motorcycles/touring.htm

But when you click on this white bike’s image to look at the 2010 specification and then click on “Available Colours” only Mosquito Brown Metallic and Nebulous Black are shown.

It might be just that the white colour option was missed off the 2010 listing of available colours by the website programmer; i.e. a programming cock up. Knutsford Honda are more likely to have used a ready-made marketing chunk of website provided by HondaUK than to have written this section and taken pictures on their own, so it would be HondaUK’s programmers.

Or it could mean that Pearl Glacier White (which we have known for some time that HondaUK have definitely got among their stockpile of GL1800s) is now being held back even longer, so they’ve got something “new” to introduce for 2011.

That would be an odd thing for Honda UK to do now that the cat’s out of the bag that they have got white ones in the pipeline; white is a popular GoldWing colour and Wingers who are currently thinking of changing would perhaps be inclined to delay their purchase to get a white one.

I have made some further enquiries and apparently HondaUK are keen to shift their unsold Monterey Blue GL1800s before they release any more colours to their Dealers, so in practical terms, apart from any other 2008/2009 colours which are still unsold, you can curremtly buy any colour of GL1800 you like as long as it’s Monterey Blue.

Now that the cat’s out of the bag about what are almost certainly all the colour options which will ever be sold in UK before the new model comes out in 2012 or 2013 to replace the GL1800, you would think HondaUK would accept that it’s a fait accompli and release them all so they can get on with selling them. Maybe someone in Naples or Japan is pulling the strings as usual and HondaUK are just doing as they’re told.

If you are in the market for a new GL1800 it might be sensible to go to Knutsford Honda’s Chrome Crazy Days this coming weekend and ask Sean Davis for yourself what he can supply and when.