The MGS clip:

"3500 rmp, that's where a lot of your riding is done..."

That dude needs to learn to shift to the next gear. Cruising 6th gear @ 75-80, I'm turning 3000-3200.

MGS equiped bikes limited to 4th gear (tops?)

Who runs at a constant 3500? Sure, I run up through it almost every gear but, "that's where a lot of your riding is done" gimme a break.

IMO, the pipe is "restricting" that bike, not the Rineys.

MGS may be a great pipe, but why "blow the smoke?"

Just an observation.

Beav

 

........ if we have to explain, you wouldn't understand.

 

IMO its not so much the ride as it is the handling. Nothing beats a fixed fairing in cross winds and on a RG having the overall wind protection of a fairing with out the weight on the forks like a batwing makes the RG feel a lot like a RK at slower speeds. So you have the overall best of fairing and no fairing. But a lot of people dont like the look

All of the touring bikes "ride" as far a comfort the same IMO as they are all the same frames.

 

Yeah the stock 103 RGU I rode was a DOG.
Very disapointed.

The fairing did cut the wind, but my helmet & sunglasses
were dancing (old subject)

I don't get the weight diff talked about RG vs Batwing.
It's still the wt of the fairing over the front wheel.