LONG-TERM REVIEW
It was a last-minute decision to go to the TT, with it actually being my good lady wife who persuaded me that we should go after a four-year layoff. I’m a self-admitted addict to the event, having visited at least 27 times over the last 30-odd years (and living on the island for eight years as a child), so I didn’t actually take much persuading, so the Kawasaki was loaded up and we headed for Heysham.
Legal naughtiness
There’s little need to explain that the H2 SX SE is a very fast motorcycle – we all know that any modern litre-plus machine can easily break that is made one way during TT fortnight – is a difficult one, and it’s not very PC to simply state that going fast is fun, given the implications of accidents at high speed. But, despite that, I will go on record as saying that being able to ride a nigh-200 horsepower motorcycle with the throttle pinned on a section of public highway without being locked up when spotted by the boys in blue is, indeed, fun. And, it has to be said, overtaking a police car on a sweeping corner with three digits on the speedo is somewhat exhilarating.
