Well gentlemen, I have only riddin a 1800 once before about 3 years ago at another spring warm up our club did, and it was a little circle around the parking lot. Yesterday I took it on the road and opened it up to about 150 klicks for about a 2 kilometer stretch. When I came back into the parking lot I was told that I should not have taken it off the private property. Oh well

As far as I know its basically a GL1800 with the improved radio. The suspension is suppose to be better but I couldn't tell you. I did feel the bike was very nimble and lite, but again probably the same as a regular GL1800.
By the way fossil, thanks for the comment. If I didn't like my 1500 so much, I'd be bumping up to a 1800 much faster.
Over all I give it a