Busy bike

[Big Dave]

It's a very fast 300kg motorcycle. Some owners will need all the help they can get just dealing with that factoid. Some of us are legends.
Doesn't have the cornering clearance of a sports bike - I was dragging my toes while (on the GTL) riding at someone-else's-40K-bike speeds, but the paralever and telelever setup chucks around very,very nicely and for such a big unit the clearance is outstanding.
It handles as well as a Connie 1400, pulls almost as hard and has more shizzle than a Gold Wing.

And ABS is a good thing.

[banditrider]

And ABS is a good thing.

I had no choice in getting it when I got the Connie but would have paid extra for it if I had needed to. It has it's faults but in the wet on a big bike with awesome brakes it just makes sense.

[Gremlin]

Word with the mandatory ABS in Europe is that they don't want it switchable... which I don't agree with. However, my limited amount of off road riding (not trails like the really off road group) is that the ABS is actually quite usable on gravel.

While you can't escape physics, I've found BMW make some extremely well sorted bikes, often providing performance/handling that punch well above where they should, for their weight.

In the TT2000 earlier this year, a ZX14 behind me couldn't believe that I only had about 100hp with the GSA, and I was much more laden than him, but still setting a respectable pace.