ST1300 now feels small!

[BluePilot]

As my Trophy has now ticked over the mileage for the first service but the dealer cannot do the business until the weekend I am using my ST1300 for a while.

It was really strange getting back on the old girl! It felt small and I felt I was perched on it as if it was a sports bike! The handling seems slower and more ponderous than the sharp reactions of the Trophy despite the Pan feeling much smaller.

All in all a very strange experience. I never thought that an ST1300 could feel small!

BP

[Verdun95]

Maybe the result of the 10 years difference in concepting the bikes?

[w8d4it]

The very same experience with my 955ST.  I never thought of it as small but after a month on the Trophy it seems positively tiny!

[Glenk69]

I'm in the same boat as you BluePilot.  I have clocked up nearly 10,000kms on the TT and recently getting on my Kawasaki Concours it felt like a sport bike and rather dated in both handling and power delivery.  The TT's ride by wire really is magnificent.  The adjustable windscreen on the Concours which I used to love having in rain and cold temperatures now looks like a pathetic little piece of plastic hardly worthy of raising.