Newbie with a wing LOOK OUT

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I am new to the forum, just joined. Just wanted to say hi and tell you about my experience so far with my gold wing. I was looking for a used 1200 and I looked at a couple of them and after riding them I was realy impressed by the way they were so easy to handle at low speed. But I couldn't find one in a color that tripped my trigger. The best one I found was a 1986 with 24k on it, but it was twilight beige and red mahogany metalic. I suppose I could get used to it.....NAAAAA! Then I found a 1994 aspy on craigs list for $5450, candy red with just over 9200 miles on it. And thanks to the forum, that I read before I went shopping. I was not afraid of the mileage. I went to look at it, and whenI saw it my jaw dropped and I started druling all over myself. Even though my loan was only approved for 4200, and in order to get it I would have to wipe out all of my savings, I knew it was going to be my bike. So I got the money and bought it the next day. It started raining while I was counting out the money, and I rode it home in the rain. GOOD START! And when I got home my wife wouldn't even look at it. OH! I forgot to tell you that she didn't want me to buy a goldwing. We already have a very nice 2007 kawasaki 900 custom, that i put about $4000 in extras on. LOL Was I in the dog house............Yes. But the bike is such a knockout. I knew she would come around. And sure enough, the next day,she got on the back for a ride to the honda dealer so we could get a cover for the bike. About half way there I got pulled over for doing 67 in a 55. I explained to the patrolman it was only my 2nd. day with the bike and he wrote it up at just 5 over. Still not good. Yesterday I was going to go riding, I took the cover off and started it and i noticed the blinker was on. I tried to turn it off with the switch and it wouldn't go out. Hmmmmm! I thought I had broken the switch. My kawi doesn't have a self canceling switch and you have to push on it to cancel the turn signal. And Iremember pushing on the turn signal switch on the wing. I started to go get a screw driver and it started to rain again. I put the cover back on and went to the computer to look for a switch. I found one for $107. I was cursing myself for costing me so much money doing something stupid on my new bike. Well the next day I went out with tools in hand ready to tackle the problem, whenI noticed I had pushed the emergency flashers on by mistake. And that the turn signal switch was ok. LOL. It's not supposed to rain today so I think I will ride it to work. Please wish me luck. Oh! my wife doesn't know I have spent all of our savings yet, so even if i live through the next ride I will probably be dead as soon as she finds out. But as I have found out in the past. It's better to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.