I'm pretty sure I've said worse to people during a heated round of counterstrike... But white knight that shit up bro!!

Yay someone brought in sexism and some stupid sense of caring for human kind.

Oh come on, if I had a dime for every time someone on the internet threatened to murder or rape me (as a fairly average looking dude) if probably have a million more dimes than this chick.

Wow.... I’ll just assume your wife, girlfriend, boyfriend, husband recently cheated on you and dumped you, you lost your job, and you stubbed your toe on the genitals on whomever your significant other was banging when you walked in.

Someone on Jalopnik who doesn’t drive pieces of crap.... What are you doing here?

Lol, man... There are a lot of thing in the car world that don’t have a reason to be the way they are. Be tough to have any originality otherwise.

That’s only a recent change though. The new minis had console gauges for like 10 years.

So.... Anyone who drove a mini, including the ones that won a bazillion races in the 60's don’t deserve a license?

I believe plenty of cars have been made with a center console guage cluster (mini, Saturn ion I think, etc.). It's really not an issue.

“Some days, that means I end up 473 pages in to an ADVRider thread and never figure out what those guys are talking about.”

I didn’t read Sean’s common tread link, so I apologize if this is redundant.

I hear ya. I almost said “if I had the means and space, I’d own 10 completely different bikes” but in all honesty, I enjoy daily riding my beige 800GSA pig. 34" inseam, so I like the clearance, it’s got a big comfy seat/narrow front for the technical stuff, it sounds like a tractor (which I have a weird thing for),…

That’s a good point. Assuming you don’t put it together yourself, which I doubt most people would do (let’s be real), so that’s 11k.... Which buys a lot of bike or a lot of stuff + a dirt bike. Honestly, at that price you can get a super legit KTM enduro.

So, I had a CB500F, which I believe is mechanically the same as the X (correct me if I’m wrong). That thing had the most uninspiring, passionless, beigefest of a power train I’ve personally ever experienced on two wheels.

Man, if that excuse goes any further than an SNL skit, I’d say that whole department is a bunch of crooked corrupt douche bags.

Man, screw a bunch of anything over about 150 miles at a decent speed without a touring screen lol. Days on a naked bike that involve highway stints are days my neck and shoulders would like to forget...

I’ve honestly considered the S1000XR, but it’s probably not going to end up in serious contention with the Africa twin, KTM 1290, or 1200GSA for a few reasons:

This sort of reminds me of the guy that rode to Alaska on a grom. If that’s your thing, then by all means do you.

It may be the fact that I live in an area where 90% of anything within 500 miles is the boonies, but I’ve never really understood the preconceived “adventure guys just want to farkle a bimmer and sit at Starbucks thing”. While I doubt a lot of them go off road every weekend (heck I’m lucky if mine sees dirt a few…

Sean, this is the Xan1756 (or some such) that reset his phone data and lost my burner name lol. Please ungrey me!!