Brad is obviously ready for his elasticated waist slacks and a bag of werthers. I, however am not. As you are all well aware, I am still fabulous.
I've worked it out. When I was younger, I had sports bikes. As I've got older, I hit my late twenties and lost the 30" waist, I moved onto upright bikes. The more and more rotund... the slower. It's not the bikes that are slower, it's the aerodynamics of the pilot All joking aside, after moving to big KTM supermotos and multis, I did briefly go back on a tuned R1. It was set up perfectly for the track, but just so nervous on anything less than perfect. I feel so much better on the KTM and I don't even back off when it gets a bit loose on a bit of gravel that's been kicked into the middle of a lane. I think these bikes just have a much wider band of operation compared to sportsbikes. That is of course unless your a nutter with no fear like them TT lot
Already in the elasticated shizzle, so no change there. Makes it more important to have a bike that you have like to look at too imho as an occasional use bike (in my case) as well as being good enough performance wise. I am starting to understand why people have these at-home show bikes that are used so little
I have a sports bike for the 5 minutes in every ride when it all comes together, usually early morning on the Pennines. I will always have one until they are banned.Its a purely selfish hobby so I dont need the comfort of a tourer.
Generally speaking I'd say each to their own & one day when I fancy a bit of touring, I'll be looking at something like a Multi or an Africa twin but not at the expense of my beautiful 1098S. When you've waited 10 years to buy your dream bike, looks do matter & looks are not something that spring to mind when you see a Multi go past.
