🚀 go-pugleaf

Andrew confessed to ba.motorcycles:
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>> Thanks to all for their advice, and Andrew, I -know- I'll miss the
>> Sprint sometimes.  If I end up in the market for a sportbike, I fully
>> plan to stop by Triumph first.
>
> At least you broadend your horizons before you made your final
> decision, that is all anyone wanted you to do.

And y'all were certainly right.  The only experiance I had on bikes over
650ccs when I started looking at the S were the 27 miles on the Buell and
the 1,300 on the R1100R.  If I'd chosen a bike with that little experiance,
I would have not only risked making an expensive and silly mistake (Critta)
I also would have missed out on the fun of trying all these different
wonderful bikes.

Riding Triumphs and Ducatis durring this process has certainly expanded my
motorcycling horizons.

> Not a bad way to spend
> a couple of days eh?  [1]

Not at all.  There are certainly worse fates than spending a week of
mornings test riding beautiful and diverse bikes.

But I'm not done yet!  I have the ST2 to test 2-up tommorow, and if I get a
chance I'd still like to ride the VFR (and / or rent it with Nick).

> [1]  Of course I had made the decision I was going to buy the Daytona
> the minute I laid eyes on it, but Peckhammer and Bannon made me go test
> the Falco.

You poor thing.  Can't say I'm remotely suprised you went with the Daytona.
Isn't the Millie closer to competing with the Daytona than the Falco?

I sat on a Daytona at Cal BMW Triumph today.  Then I chastised myself and
distracted myself by looking at the Beemer.  Luckilly, it will be some time
before I'm ready for something like that.

All in all, I'm happy both with the entire process and the result.  But
then, who on the groups would be suprised that I liked getting to randomly
ride all sorts of bikes?

Thanks for the kick in the ass, Andrew.  If nothing else, I can (and
actually do) appreciate the Beemer better by having something worthy to
compare it to.

Now that I've got a bike that'll do some miles, perhaps I'll get to ride
with you, and you'll demonstrate triple superiority for me.  ::grin::

Reed.
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