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First Ride: Honda ST1300 Pan European — Road Tests: First Rides — Visordown

23 Апр 2015 | Author: dima | Комментарии отключены

First Ride: Honda Pan European

I’ve been before. So many times getting boring. The two dots in my are growing rapidly.

I’m my own business at 110mph, and sure with a double buffet past and vanishing fast. see them soon though, in fuel station looking but barely 80 miles from the fill up. The Honda’s tank be half empty, but the ritual be completed.

Honda’s new ST1300 Pan European is a super-tourer, but only when with similar fish. If in a group with two-and-a-half-mile-a-minute fly as I was on the way to the Bol d’Or with Wozza and aboard the ZX-12R and Hayabusa to be frustrated. This bike has designed to travel 250 miles fill-ups and to do so without leaving you like you’ve done ten with a Turkish wrestler.

So having to stop as detailed just after you’ve got the tall, relaxing top gear and behind the hugely adjustable screen makes for staccato, progress.

Other riders’ aside, the big Pan has always been a good compromise, if such a is possible, between pace, and load lugging with range and comfort.

I rode the model down to the southern circuit of Nogaro in company a couple of sportsbikes (an R1 and 998, souls) in ’98. Laden camera gear, even on I was never embarrassed given the weight of the thing. Indeed first released the Pan was used as a marshals’ bike at the TT which, only for the brave, gave an of Honda’s faith in the handling.

And so when asked to repeat the (albeit to the Bol at Magny Cours) on the new with a couple of Ÿber-speedster for company, it didn’t seem too an order.

Four am is never the best to get to know a bike, least of all it weighs 283 kilos (seven than the non-ABS version) and has 60kgs of camera and camping attached. Still, by the time blundered towards the coast to the 7am ferry from Calais, I was to know the beast.

Wozza, being a late-braking dude brought an early into the effectiveness of the Pan’s braking system as I followed his lights into an early and nearly overshot the thing. a fistful of the very good hauled me safely up and out of harm’s

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