[bykemike]

The S series are great sport touring bikes, I've got a couple of sets of bags with mine, since I always ride alone I can do multi week tours with my city lid cases (nice and narrow) a tank bag and a tail bag.

I get 45 mpg, relentlessly. Ride in comfort even in wet weather, have my Garmin rigged up with a 12 volt feed to the tankbag to keep my phone and Kindle charged, high cotton so to speak.

I've done a number of cross country trips on these bikes, the one I am driving now (04) was a 1700 mile return trip, fun, but my longest was picking one up in Show Low AZ and riding west then north to Portland OR before turning back south and then east, about a 5k return trip

So enjoy!

CK is right on the nose, drivers in the US are a bunch of homicidal MF's these days, pent up rage rules the driving world. It bothers me to no end but I attempt to ride in the open areas of the country as much as I can, don't drive after dark if I can avoid it and try and accept the fact that something is going to nail me eventually.

My hedge on that is I am an avid road bicyclist and if you think motorcycles are dangerous...


Oh BTW, longevity..my current 04 just turned 33,000 and in a conversation with Tom from Rubber Chicken he remarked "just a youngster"

The one I picked up in AZ was over 65K, and I rode that bike for many years, never missed a beat except for wear items. I think these bikes are way understressed.