...or to the dark side, depending on your point of view.
Tw years ago I bought an RTLC. Partly because I'd always fancied one and partly because my job meant I was commuting 70 miles+ each way two or three times a week. I came to the RT slightly regretfully leaving my beloved Multistrada behind.
I haven't regretted owning it a single day. It's been a fabulous piece of kit - without doubt the best bike for the job I asked of it and it hasn't missed a beat in 12,500 miles. It hasn't got a single spot of corrosion on it either!
However, now I'm only working part-time, it's simply too big, fat and heavy for most of the social riding I do and so, when the PCP came to an end, I decided to let it go.
I still can't quite believe what I'm replacing it with. I'd always said that I would never test-ride a GS in the UK. I've never ridden one here - apart from at Simon Pavey's school - but have done something like 15,000 miles on them overseas, including Alaska, California, Oregon, South Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Germany.
I spent a day at my favourite dealer, putting something like 250 miles on a GS, a GSA and an RS. No contest...
The GS Triple Black arrives later this month.
Tw years ago I bought an RTLC. Partly because I'd always fancied one and partly because my job meant I was commuting 70 miles+ each way two or three times a week. I came to the RT slightly regretfully leaving my beloved Multistrada behind.
I haven't regretted owning it a single day. It's been a fabulous piece of kit - without doubt the best bike for the job I asked of it and it hasn't missed a beat in 12,500 miles. It hasn't got a single spot of corrosion on it either!
However, now I'm only working part-time, it's simply too big, fat and heavy for most of the social riding I do and so, when the PCP came to an end, I decided to let it go.
I still can't quite believe what I'm replacing it with. I'd always said that I would never test-ride a GS in the UK. I've never ridden one here - apart from at Simon Pavey's school - but have done something like 15,000 miles on them overseas, including Alaska, California, Oregon, South Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Germany.
I spent a day at my favourite dealer, putting something like 250 miles on a GS, a GSA and an RS. No contest...
The GS Triple Black arrives later this month.