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I appreciate the look of a chopped bike or a fat tired hard tail, but I know better than to think they are good handling cycles.

I'm running a VFR on a daily commute year 'round, which is great, but when I made that trip to LA on it, it nearly broke my a$$ in half. My next sled will likely be the Honda ST 1300 so my wife can go with me. As it is, she starts beating me about the head and shoulders as soon as I get up over 75-- how she does it, I don't know since she's screaming in my ear about how she can't hang on at those speeds. I'd put a rack and bags on the back, but it'd just ruin the lines of that gorgeous bike for me.

Cruisers would be fine for a relaxed medium length trip, but my problem I have become addicted to the speed and the reduced time it takes me to get to work on the Viffer. I get all frustrated now when I drive a cage and get stuck in traffic, waiting for people to bovinely move down the road. As it is I tend sail down the highway at 90-ish, split lanes at lights, race to the front of traffic, use my high beams to move the four wheeled cattle out of the way.

Meh. I'll prolly kill myself tonight on my way home from work from jinxing myself by talking about it.

Totem