| Had a lot of fun with mine, been on a couple of lengthy trips now, did a ride over to Assen to the DD round this year and went on a 2 week tour of Europe in 2005.
I've tinkered a bit with mine, open pipes, cut down airbox top with K&N filter but only because I like the thing to sound like it was meant to (and er indoors moaned it was too quiet standard and didn't sound like a Dook)
Only problems I've had is the horn mounting bracket broke (replaced with new version under warranty, no quibble) and an odd problem with the tickover. The latter only started after the last service and is rather unusual; I thought it was the cable damaged somewhere along its route causing tickover to vary, sometimes when coming to a halt it runs at 2,500 rpm which is a bit of a pain, other times just under 1,000 which is fine.
I've both an ST2 and ST3 ,the 2 has done a fair mileage with no problems (now up for sale if anybody wants a good un) but the ST3 is a better bike to ride. Fairngs although not perhaps to everyones liking offer far more high speed stability, we tried it out of interest on the Autobahn last year, 2 up with panniers, top box and tank bag it seemed rock steady at up to 140 mph. It does use a bit of fuel at high sustained speeds but seems remarkably economical ridden a bit more sedately.
No problems with the wet clutch which is obviously much quieter than it's predecessors dry version.
All in all a very competent touring bike which seems to be very highly praised in the magazine reviews, usually beinmg rated higher that the VFR, which I must confess I've never ridden. | 
31-May-2006, 14:02 
Paul James
Hybrid Mode
