I like your thinking (go small), but doing a day ride with a backpack sucks, so I wonder what you’re going to do for luggage/cases. And for overnighters, even if you motel it, you’ll need to carry a significant amount of gear. Having glanced at antihero’s tale, I can only conclude that he’s a high grade idiot, riding…

And yet you assert, without any personal or second-hand information, that the BMW is faster around a track than the R1, because published HP.

Agree, and is it my imagination or have there been way too many articles about this barely-existing bike? It’s one thing to toss fap material to the plebes occasionally, but it seems like lately moto journos are carrying a lot of water for Honda’s marketing department, which, yeah, should be updating its CBR-RRs…