How your tastes change.

[FROSTY]

Ever since the Yamaha FJR 1300 was anounced I've wanted to own one.
I rode the first one available for sale in NZ thanks to the good blokes at Haldanes. It quite frankly felt fantastic to ride.
Roll on a few years and the chance to own one came up.
I took the beast for a decent ride. I came away totally underwhelmed.
It felt heavy.No feel through the back brakes and just generally tank like to ride.
I know the bike hasn't changed so it must be me.
Darn it all

[Mort]

Nostalgia aint what it used to be

[JimO]

there is a old saying...you can never go back

[riffer]

Too true mate. I had a similar thing happen when I got a chance to ride a VF1000R recently.

I took one out for a test ride when I was 20. It was fast, fast fast, and handled and stopped so well.

It doesn't now.

I would suggest you try the XJR1300 instead.

[Hitcher]

How many km had the FJR in question traveled? That back brake thing can be remedied. I've ridden several new bikes where the brake performance -- particularly the rear -- was suboptimal. I kind of expect that now.