GEE TEE!
Sports touring. The thing I like to do most. Well, in the top five anyway. Lobster devouring and “nothing” feature pretty highly as well. It’s what bikes are about for me. Long trips, time to soak up the atmosphere and outrun those weekday demons.
Interestingly, there is a letter in this issue from a reader asking me what bikes I’d own if I was paying myself. It’s a bit of an indictment on me that I haven’t applied a lot of thought to that specific notion (mainly because I’m as poor as a church mouse and I get to ride test bikes often). So I thought about it. Long and hard. After a few reds and with a furrowed brow, I’d narrowed it to three potentials: the BMW S 1000 XR — it is ridiculously competent and techno-exciting; the Harley-Davidson Low Rider
