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totalmotorcycle wrote: (sorta how I felt with the Dodge Charger is it a muscle car or a family car?)

Lol I know of a local Charger that can carry a whole family while keeping up with (or beating if he has the NO2 hooked up) my Z750S.

I love this bike for what it is - a sport tourer that keeps getting better with time. The newest version is so gorgeous, I love the design!

It got an awesome from me!

Wrider wrote:

totalmotorcycle wrote: (sorta how I felt with the Dodge Charger is it a muscle car or a family car?)

Lol I know of a local Charger that can carry a whole family while keeping up with (or beating if he has the NO2 hooked up) my Z750S.

That would be one souped up car then with the Hemi and all the fixin's. It would be quite, no very, rare for anything under a Fererri to keep up even close to your bike; after all, you have one sweet bike there.

Mike

Quite a good voting turnout and another great discussion too! Riders really seem to like what Yamaha has done with not only the FJR1300 but the whole sport-touring scene as well. How will Honda or Suzuki improve upon the FJR?

Your Coolness Factor of the 2013 Yamaha FJR1300A ABS is...

Awesome (3 points) 56% [ 20 ]
Cool (2 points) 25% [ 9 ]
Uncool (1 point) 11% [ 4 ]
Fail (0 point) 8% [ 3 ]

This bike ranks a Coolwall Factor of 76.0%

Very cool!

As for the Charger, it's an SRT8 with a built tranny, aftermarket axle, ported/polished intake, CAI and a 91 octane tune when he beat me from a dig. Now he's on E-85 with a 150 shot of N02.

I always had a soft spot for the FJR, mainly because Yamaha bucked the trend in the ST world of making ST's bigger and fatter. The Connie 14, Honda ST and even my beloved Triumph Sprint all have gotten bigger and fatter, leaning more toward the Touring side of the ST world and away from the Sport side.

A lot of people don't get the ST models, are they sport bikes or are they touring bikes? Well, with bikes like my old and trusty '87 Connie, they are both. I can easily tour all day on them in comfort and not be crippled after an hour or so. And I can cut loose and tear up the twisties damn near as well as any RR600 when I want to. A good ST such as the Connie 1000 and Sprint ST finds that fine balance between both worlds. And they make pretty good commuter bikes as well, even when dealing with city traffic. (The only down side I have with the Connie is that it does not like sitting in traffic idling on a hot summer day too long, even with the cooling fan going full bore, she starts to cook and overheat.)

But as I said, the makers of ST's have progressively making their bikes bigger, heavier and fatter along with throwing on more and more "tech" goodies to the point where they are slowly morphing into mini full on touring machines, or baby Wings if you like. This I think is a mistake and I will have to take a close look at the new FJR to see if Yamaha has jumped onto that band wagon.

Triumph at least was honest when it recently upgraded the Sprint by changing its designation from ST (Sport Touring) to GT (Grand Touring) to reflect its shift more towards the touring end of the model. I am hoping that with the release of the new Trophy, Triumph will take the Sprint back to its roots as a full on hooligan big S small t sport touring machine.