The Superduke is having a service today at Tricounty motorcycles in Bracknell. I’d arranged a loan of a SuperMoto-T for the day as I quite fancy one of these. So there I was with a day put aside to go for as decent test ride. I get there and over the weekend they’ve sold the demo SM-T… Oh but I could go out for a 20 min test ride on it.
Fair enough, so I turn out the road and spend 20 minutes filtering in traffic.
And the gear lever is a good 2 inches about the footpeg. And the back brake is grinding. So I get back and park it next to a lovely SM-R which is not on demo. Not exactly the best test ride I’ve been on…
So now I have a shiny new 690 Duke for the day. And what a horrible little bike it is!! Admittedly it looks pretty nice but that’s all I can like about it. It runs out of puff in oooooo about half a nanosecond. And I don’t know whether some knob-cheddar has polished the seat or not but every time I brake it feels like I’m sitting on the handlebars.
It’s so sh*te I can’t even be bothered to take it out on a lovely day like this. Just gotta wait for the 5-hour service now and take the thing back.
I can relate to that . . . I have a brilliant Kawasaki ZX6 in the garage . . . fresh tyres and steering damper, new rear shock and it’s just ready to go but I can’t get the enthusiasm to use it . . . the busa always gets chosen
I will be using it this winter in Spain and I’ve got a full track fairing set in the garage to go on it . . . just need to fit it . . . the trouble is when Jetstream posts up a new ride I think . . . spend the day in the garage fixing fiberglass fairings to the bike or ride the busa, nice lunch and a good ride . . . so it’s Chris’s fault I haven’t got the bike ready ;)
Steve, I can solve all your issues… give the ZX6 to me, I’ll fit the fairings and then give it back to you in 2011…then you wont have any quandries until then…
Actually the 690 wasn’t that bad on the way back. Maybe I was just pissed off with not getting the bike I wanted to try. It handles quite well. Still slow though.
