Fri, 18 Sep 1998 13:01:15 +0300
- Message No. 4056
From: Phoebus Katsanos
Subject: Re: Off Road, naaaah... (and about married men...)
Well, it seams to me that I stirred up some discussion.
1st of all I don't have anything against married men. It's their ass
anyway ;). What I did was quote Honda, and their thinking behind the
making of their monster. Now the fact that many married guys got pissed,
is because that thinking makes them (or tries to) look like ... well,
you understand my point I think.
2nd, I didn't say nothing about off road competition, (although, at a
motorally we did leave many lighter and cheaper machines behind us!), I
was talking about the kind of bike that does 135 km's off road with an
average speed of 45+ km/h and then changes tyres, and does 1400 kms with
2 grown men on it and an average speed of 125+ km/h in a weekend!!! I am
talking average speed here!
Top that with a duke!
Now anyone likes his motorcycle for different reasons and hates it for
others. I love the @ for the above, and hate it for being too heavy and
too slow on the road. So I was hoping that Honda would make a better
bike. Instead they made a useless IMHO bike, since why get an "on-off"
machine, when it has absolutely no off capabilities?
If I was tempted to get such a bike, I would certainly go for a real
tourer, like lets say paneuropean, or even better the blackbird!
Even more than the bike, what really pisses me off about honda is that
they have completely abandoned the on-off category. Nothing new in the
range, not only of the @, but also in the range of Transalp or
Dominator! And did you see the slr 650?? What a piece of shit!
> Mika Jaakkola wrote:
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> Dave,
>
> you are absolutely right !
>
> Nothing to add. That's the way things just are.
>
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