| I often feel that with a Ducati, you are riding the way the bike wants you to ride it. It's a brilliant experience, but you are limited somehow by the bike's own idiosyncrasies, eg. the tendancy towards slow steering (although the stability at high speeding is a fantastic feeling).
Jap IL4's are perhaps more of a blank canvas - the ride may be neutral to the point of blandness, but that leaves you free to employ your own techniques and desires. The only drawback to them that I can see is the need to keep the engine on the boil, but maybe that's no longer true of litre IL4s. I haven't ridden a modern Jap IL4, I'm basing my opinion on my experiences in the early-mid 90's. |