you do NOT need to ride off road to justify a big trail bike

[icenian]

...and if you want proof, check out the exhaust on my Speed Triple - the balance pipe is now dinged on both sides.

On a normal left hander the peg goes down before anything else. A bit too cautious to see what happens on right handers as legend has it the clutch cover goes down. The balance pipe only hits when there's bl**dy great bump mid corner.

If the roads keep falling apart like this, pretty soon a big trailie (or a 4x4) is going to be the only thing that can use them!

[ChrisH]

Mark Williams wrote pretty much the same thing in TBM last month. The reason I bought my first TA was cos the roads in Kerry were so bloody awful that riding a 'road' bike was doing my back in..... the TA was a model of comfort in comparison Never looked back!