Well a touring bike makes a hell of a lot more sense on the street than a super sport regardless of brand. Super sports are fast light nimble but really why would anyone want to ride one on the street is beyond me. A sport touring or adv with street bias tires is plenty fast enough and still comfortable. If that’s not fast enough for you than you shouldn’t be on public roads at all. I even wonder how long I will have my Adventure bike because it’s just to easy to go way way to fast.
I found on my HD I could run it through the gears and make a little noise and though I was speeding it was imo reasonable.
Now I find within seconds I’m at take my bike and license territory.
The bike doesn’t look fast with its big aluminum “tool boxes” mesh head light protection and hand guards but god dam this thing hauls ass faster than it should.
Its so tempting to just cruise around at double the speed limit. It’s only a matter of time before I get a ticket and it won’t be small.
That point made how do SS riders keep a clean record?
I don't have an SS though it has be written that the Tuono is basically an RSV4 with flat bars and a re-tuned engine. At 175HP and 1100ccs it's definitely on the "beastlier" end of the spectrum.
I've had it for two years and don't have a moving violation yet with it. Keeping a clean record with a bike like this is simple: Maturity and self-control. It sounds cliche but it's true.
Recently I rode past the Timmys on Ottawa Street in Kitchener (apparently a destination for bikes of all kinds, especially on Fridays and weekends) heading to 85 north. A few SSs fell in behind me. By the time I got to the on-ramp, they were no-where to be seen. I accelerated, merged and rode north a few kph above the flow of (light) traffic. A few seconds later these same SSs came blasting by at full-song, probably doing 150-200kph as they went by, still accelerating. They'd fallen way back to give themselves lots of room ahead for the knee-drag ramp entrance and full-tuck WOT acceleration to follow. I admit it's a nice piece of road to stretch ones legs but that's also behavior that leads to HTA172s and life-changing legal challenges.
When I ride I'm conscious of everything I do and where I do it. Ridden appropriately, these bikes are just big pussycats and while they can make hair-on-fire speed, they also have a throttle that, used judiciously, allows one to keep ones license.
Why would you want to ride something that only goes fast we’re your not allowed to go fast?
I don't know the psychology but it probably has roots in the same reason most ADV bikes never see "adventure" use or why most AWD SUVs never actually go off-road. Appearance/image, sound, feeling, the ability to exercise them in, um, "isolated situations" -- depending on your level of situational awareness/bravery/stupidity etc.
Sport bike riders can easily take their machines to actual track days; is there an enduro-like equivalent for ADV bikes?
How many ADV riders putt-putt around town with their knobbly-tires and giant panniers mounted with no actual intent of going on any sort of actual adventure? Probably about as many as Indian, HD and metric cruiser riders that commute on their machines rather than heading out on the open road for huge highway cruising.
Do SS riders really drop 3 and flee, drop a gear disappear? Is that really the plan?
Those with mental issues do.
