BUYER BEWARE
A modest windfall had my mate Slim thinking about a new bike. Not a new new bike, it wasn’t that much of a windfall, but enough to consider spending maybe 10 grand. If he could find something for half that, even better. More important was that it was the right bike, one that would potentially see him through the rest of his riding life without breaking the bank along the way.
Like me, Slim is his late 60s, retired, in relatively good health but carrying a few war wounds. He has been riding sports bikes, many of them Ducatis, at breakneck speeds for more than 40 years but now struggles with clip-ons and especially rear-set foot pegs. He wanted something
