what a treat to be back on a motorcycle again: the smooth hum of the engine, the solid braking and the temperate air across my face at last got me excited about this trip in a way i had not yet experienced...
I admit all the plastic on the RT made me a bit nervous: unlike my bare, unfaired GS, if i dropped this, the damage would be horrific. all that beautifully shaped plastic roughed and scraped and scratched. since i had not been on a bike since I put my GS away for the winter last fall, there was a bit of concern about an unfamilar motorcycle. But it was beautiful: I've always prefered the 1150 engine to my current 1200 -- it just feels and sounds more like a motorcycle -- and this was a great reminder of that difference.
Rode over to Hawley Beach, a growing community on Bass Strait (the strait between Tasmania and Australia):
BEFORE............
AFTER:
a great and refreshing dip in the salt. ahhhh. here at last, and at last i feel rightside up -- which is to say,
upside down. or are the rest of you upside down ?
