I think the Triumph 800 dual thingy has a low seat or kit for the shorter inner leg. Do they still do the V-Strom 650?
The saving grace on my Ducati is how narrow it is - so the 840mm seat height still allows me to toe it around. Any taller in the seat and I'd probably not purchased it. And I reckon it is just a styling thing - from a technical and mechanical point the subframe and thus seat could have been dropped 20mm easily - but then you'd not get that beautiful line from tank to tail, thus I believe the designer won.
The dude doing the WOF yesterday was my height (5'8) but didn't have the art of the right leg swing perfected! Despite my general physical inflexibility I swear I could do a great ballet half pierrot followed by a high kick after three years of Ducati ownership. I'm sure it is quite beautiful to watch be mount up.
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