I knew I never should have ridden that Street Triple. But that’s what happens when your trusty steed lets you down: you grab the next available horse on the hitching post and you go for a ride. Who cares that the destination was a bakery downtown and not south of the border. Who cares if the ride afterward was a short 30 mile jaunt and not a meandering daytrip to the coast and back. Who cares if the borrowed mount charges like a warhorse and makes the beloved SV feel like a pokey old nag.
I was riding, and it was good.
Note to self: if you’re going to ride the SV just once in two weeks, you really ought to hook it up to the battery tender. Jus’ sayin’.
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Uh oh.
If you aren’t in the market for a different bike then what you’ll have to do is ride a piece of crap bike and then quickly get on the SV. You’ll be loving your bike again in no time. Pick something hideous, heavy and slow, with crap brakes, poor lights and an awful seating/bar/foot position. You know, a Harley. ;o)
What? I keed, I keed!
I think I professed my lust for the striple before. Don’t get me wrong, I am happy with my SV, but the street is a fantastic bike. This may be the year for a new bike for me
This is why I don’t ride other people’s bikes (aka, OPB).
My friend’s CBR1k made made my RC feel like a loud asthmatic 1 ton scooter.
@Fuzzygalore: You are brilliant.
@Mike: You won’t be disappointed, except maybe in the gas mileage department. But burning dino juice has never been so much fun!
@Soth: I can see the reasoning behind that rule. Still, I believe that if someone offers to let you ride their bike, you should take it (more often than not) because it’s so damn hard to get good seat time on a wide range of bikes. Unless you’re Jay Leno, that is!
Oh, the Triple is a sweet-hot bike… I haven’t ridden one (yet) but a friend up in Seattle has one, and he LOVES it.
Maybe you can arrange a trade??? hehe
@Liz Petersen: The only way I’m getting those keys is if I pry them from Stacey’s cold dead fingers.
I did that with a Ducati Hypermotard and decided that I have had to turn down multiple offers to go up to the mountains for a day demoing the Streetfighter…otherwise I would be trying to sell the SV.
BTW…you may want to check the health of that battery. It should be able to sit for 2 weeks without a trickle charge.
Having owned a CBR1100XX for 8 years, I thought that the Triple might be a disappointment – how wrong I was!!! I love it to bits, particularly as the area I live in is a 300km loop of twisty roads. Only had it 3 months, but it’s the start of a long love affair!