That... that’s terrible. Awful, really.

You want endless boring slow circles in a parking garage?

Now Mr. Wayne finally has a bike to park next to his car.

See also, “Class A Mishap.”

LS SWAP.

but the addition of cornering ABS should put the 690 on everyone’s radar.

Yeah, that’s a feature that looks cool but is entirely impractical for road use. One good set of twisties and my thigh is crushing that filter into a hot oily mess.

[Looks at story]

As expected, the Super Duke GT gets a full host of incredible electronics - including KTM’s incredible lean angle sensitive stability control system.

Wait... people use the *front* brake for this?

Beautiful, looks the prettiest of the line.

Those crash bars are far enough out to protect the fairings from a low-speed dump. At worst you’d bend a mirror and bust a signal. Anything faster is on you :-)

GF’s coming up on replacing her CX-7... she doesn’t want to downsize to the 5, but to date the current-gen 9 has been boring (basically, it was a 3-row 7, nothing differentiated it).

Well sonuvabitch, they did it— they made the bike that I want.

Well, there is an aesthetically elegant solution: put both lights next to each other *vertically* rather than horizontally.

That thing is a frakkin’ Decepticon.

I sure hope not. As polarizing as the Diavel’s looks have been over the years, I must say I found that bike to be the most comfortable bike I’ve ever sat in (in a shop; which of course isn’t four hours on the road, but *still*).

Eh... it’s not the sound, it’s the engine, the geometry, the general *feel* of the bike. Like a “commuting appliance” rather than a motorcycle.

Heh... no regrets about selling my Ninja EX250. I live in a city (torque is helpful), have to ride an hour on the highway to get to good twisties (top speed is helpful), and I have to keep it parked outside under a cover (low-maintenance is helpful— old fogies can keep their carbs, thanks). Doesn’t mean that another…