Motorcycle Live 2025

Looking great in your Ducati T-shirt Ade

 

That first Ducati in your pictures looks like you would be riding an ironing board.

 

It was more comfortable than it looks and was probably just as padded if not slightly more than my Fireblade seat (not very!) or Street Triple seat before I had it re upholstered for long tours. Both of those are plank - like and suit me fine. I don't think anyone buys a Hypermotard for touring comfort....just a bit of hooliganism and fun . The riding position was actually really nice, I loved it!

 

Heading there tomorrow and looking forward to it.

 

Just got back, I surprisingly enjoyed it, managed to see all the stands, I was there for 6+ hours, took my own grub. It's a bit pricey but I think that's me for a few years now. I must admit to really loving the Scrambler 400XC. It surprised me how big it felt for such a small cc bike. The Chinese bikes are there in force, and they are turning out some cracking bikes. Only time will tell if they have the reliability of the bikes we own today.

Then there's this beauty

I'm getting old, but this just ticks all the boxes for me, I loved @Wessa 650 Interceptor. If I didn't have my 95 Thunderbird, this would be in the garage, for me to
over

 

I can’t say I’m that impressed by any of the “Hypermotard” offerings TBH. They’ve sprung up on the back of the Supermoto/Motard genre which are, basically off road bikes with modified suspension, better brakes with road wheels and tyres. I’ve never owned one but I’ve ridden one and they are real weapons when correctly set up, super light, powerful and extremely nimble, especially on bumpy back roads.
I guess the big manufacturers wanted to cash in so they replace “Super” with “Hyper” , bolt on all the necessary extra road crap and give them weired paint schemes in an attempt to fill (create?) a new niche in the market.
Then again I seemed to have developed a penchant for Classic Twins so call me a GOG!