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Old 14-Mar-2005, 16:29
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Don't forget you have to take the magazine test's with a pinch(handful sometimes) of salt-they have to be mindful of where their advertising comes from.
EG: when one of the mags(can't remember which one) did a group test of all the sports tourers 4 years ago when the ST4S had just come out they loved it. They had a technique of giving the bikes scores out of ten for all the different parts, handling, comfort, engine, etc etc. Anyway when you added up the scores the Ducati won(by quite a distance)................but funnily enough in their overall rating at the end the VFR was the best bike-go figure.

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Old 14-Mar-2005, 16:35
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aaaaah, how sweet, all the old people together having a chat ..... its just like the "recreation room" at the nursing home .... bless em ....

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Japan is just about to allow two up touring on the expressways. April 1st is the big day. Now I have a young lass who wishes to join me on some of the tours I did and the ST 4 is really the way to go......If that means I am an old geezer, so be it, but she prefers the comfort of the ST to the sportiness of my "younger" SS.
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Old 16-Mar-2005, 15:06
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Never thought to ask about that before: didn't Japan have laws that made it very difficult/expensive to run a bike over 400cc?

How do you get round that?

Are there many big bikes (apart from the police) in Japan?

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