Gold Wing: the airbag came before anyone else's

The Honda Gold Wing became the first mass-produced motorcycle to offer a production airbag. No other mass-market bike had one before it.

Honda began researching motorcycle airbags back in 1990, about 16 years before one appeared on the Gold Wing.

And the original 1975 Gold Wing wasn't conceived as a large touring bike at all, but as a powerful flagship road motorcycle.