This bike slows me down

[the Ferret]

It's strange that whatever car or truck we're driving, maybe the same one for 200K miles, we get in it and drive it, and rarely do we do anything about what we don't like about it - we just get comfortable with it.

But we get on our bike, and the mirror is too short or too big so we change it. Or the handle bars are too low/too high, so we change it. The exhaust doesn't look or sound right, so we change it. Or there's too much wind, or we need to carry stuff, or.....

So we personalize it, and can see and feel the difference immediately, a source of great satisfaction. We like our cars, but we LOVE our bikes!

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And as far as the bike slowing me down, no, it was the opposite.
I slowed down, and the bike accommodated me.

Good points.

I view my truck as a conveyance. Nice truck, comfortable, powerful enough and it hauls the big things I can't carry on the bike, like mulch or furniture, but I don't love the truck. It's 10 years old and has 58,000 miles on it. My CB is 6 years old and has 53.000 miles on it, my FJR 2 years old and 32,000 miles and my ST 1300 before the FJR was 10 years old and I put 110,000 miles on it. I love my motorcycles.