Plush Performance Personified
Story by Mike Seate and Jay LaRossa
Photos by Jose Gallina and Mike Seate
Sportbikes, with their back-breakingly low clip-on bars and excruciating riding positions, are dead, goes the theory. They’ve been replaced, for all but dedicated racers and track-day junkies, by high-performance naked bikes that offer slightly more forgiving ergonomics and similar cutting edge thrills. We have a soft spot for these modern-day cafe racers as their stripped-down aesthetics and focused intent makes them the perfect motorcycles for backroad blasts and rapid daily transportation.
BMW’s S1000R, we were told, is the top of the current heap for its combination of awesome power, precision handling and enough electronic gee-gaws to keep techies fiddling for months on end.
