That Bagger. Those exhausts. Its as though someone took two bikes, sawed them in half and stuck them together to make this.
Or one bloke designed the front, and another the back?

The reverse gear is to take it back into the rear of the garage - out of sight.

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" (and the designer)

Looks better with the top case, and why the R1150RT headlight?

I know I wouldn’t want an LT for filtering on my daily commute from Suffolk to the South Bank and back. They are easier to filter than some might imagine but they’re not a good bike to choose if you plan to filter often.

I also think you’re a tad optimistic with regards to outperforming sports bikes.  You may well be a more experienced, faster rider who can use more of the capability of his bike than the sunny Sunday afternoon only MotoGP wanabe on his sports bike but, good as it was, the LT will “not outperform” any sports bike with more than 250cc. (Unless we’re talking about a race from here to anywhere south of Paris!)

Not optimistic at all! 12LTs go around corners. Oh yes, having creamed the sporties in the corner, they go whizzing past on the straight, but by then, its too late and they "have been done". Oh the fun at "Wandsworth bridge roundabout" to be had, or filtering along the A3 towards Robin Hood and up Kingston Vale, down West Hill and so forth

I used my 12LTs to commute all over the place, Kingston to Brighton, to Peterborough, to Cambridge, to Basildon, to Cheltenham/Gloucester, to Wilton, into central London (south bank, New Kings Beam House), to Solihull, to Southampton, to Telford, to Birmingham, to Reading, to Theale, back to Cheltenham, runs to Leeds and back in a day...

All up I clocked almost 200,000 miles on 12LTs, 82,000 on the 05 alone, having started with a 99 that suffered every fault they were known to have, from gearbox oil seal to crown wheel bearing to having the gear change fall off

Quote from: richtea on September 26, 2016, 08:22:33 pm

> And possibly a reverse gear?

Hmmm. I think that's when it stops being a motorbike, isn't it? 

Have to agree. I don't want the extra weight - would prefer less if anything.

Never filtered a K12LT? Easiest bike I had for filtering, people just got out of your way. If the front went through, the back would

Effortless ride, handles very well and can out perform sports bikes - much to their embarrassment. Superb machine, wished I hadn't sold the last one or had bought a 12Lt to replace it, not the 12GT

I got banned on a 1200S, the 1600S will need barbed wire around it

Run flat tyres?

Well I've only had two (so far) very nice draught beers here near Rhodes town. Saw the Templar palace - very impressive, and horrifying levels of rider protection...

Does seem strange that the majority of the Olympics GB team are allowed to fly in one aircraft.

Confused - why?

One of the safest forms of transport. Accident ratio is something like once every 990 years of continuous flying (in commercial civil aircraft) and if you're a commercial pilot and have two, you need to do your lottery ticket

Damn site safer than m/c

Not quite a K bike but it is from the same breed...... 

I have now received my formal offer of employment so my plan to relocate down under is going ahead.

So which was it then? Perth or Gold Coast?