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Downsizing ...to a Guzzi
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<blockquote data-quote="FJRBound" data-source="post: 1430631" data-attributes="member: 82848"><p>Well...the love affair is over. It never really got started.</p><p></p><p>On Saturday, my buyer rode off on my 2016 ES. On Sunday I went for a 150-mile jaunt on the Guzzi. I was pushing it harder than I had yet, and I found its limits, it wallowing in fast, bumpy sweepers, and grinding off a bit of something (center stand? side stand?) in a tight left-hander. I suppose I could start throwing money at suspension bits, but I would still have a 52-HP bike with a 6,500-RPM redline. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😐" title="Neutral face :neutral_face:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f610.png" data-shortname=":neutral_face:" /></p><p></p><p>I'm thinking I'll go sit on a Honda CB650R this weekend and see if it's too tall for me. If it is, I may snag a new SV650. (Although I've been warned that the quality of its suspension may not satisfy me, either, I could at least think about upgrading suspension on the 73-HP gem-of-an-engine SV.)</p><p></p><p>I will post updates here, for anyone who may be interested...</p><p></p><p>Just hoping, ardently, that I'm not so spoiled by the FJR that nothing else out there that might fit me will satisfy me...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FJRBound, post: 1430631, member: 82848"] Well...the love affair is over. It never really got started. On Saturday, my buyer rode off on my 2016 ES. On Sunday I went for a 150-mile jaunt on the Guzzi. I was pushing it harder than I had yet, and I found its limits, it wallowing in fast, bumpy sweepers, and grinding off a bit of something (center stand? side stand?) in a tight left-hander. I suppose I could start throwing money at suspension bits, but I would still have a 52-HP bike with a 6,500-RPM redline. 😐 I'm thinking I'll go sit on a Honda CB650R this weekend and see if it's too tall for me. If it is, I may snag a new SV650. (Although I've been warned that the quality of its suspension may not satisfy me, either, I could at least think about upgrading suspension on the 73-HP gem-of-an-engine SV.) I will post updates here, for anyone who may be interested... Just hoping, ardently, that I'm not so spoiled by the FJR that nothing else out there that might fit me will satisfy me... [/QUOTE]
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