In June of 1986, more than 2,000 motorcyclists rode into Santa Clara. One of their goals was to break the Guinness record for the number of motorcycles in a parade. They came for the 1986 Wing Ding, a massive annual convention of the Honda Gold Wing Road Riders Association. You can see the pure joy on their faces. These people loved what they were doing, and you can feel the real camaraderie and friendship between them. It mattered. Today, the Wing Ding and the association behind it no longer exist. The Gold Wing Road Riders Association closed in 2022 after years of declining membership, falling from more than 80,000 down to around 10,000. It’s a real loss. I don’t know what drove that kind of decline. Aging membership, changing interests, something else? source footage 🎥: KRON