Motorcycle Sport & Leisure

Rolling Stones!

If ever there was a bike I wished I was still 17 to ride, it would be this one…

Yes, the Yamaha XSR is funky looking and the 17-year-old me would love the styling. Heck, it even has shades of RD-LC in there.

And – yes – I’d be lapping up the super-cool clocks, with lashings of LCD as (in 1988 when I was 17) bikes with even just an LCD fuel gauge were cooler than a pair of hopsack Farahs…

But it’s not being 17 years old that I’m wishing, I’m wishing I was back to 17 stone. Oh yes, let’s just say that lockdown hasn’t been

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