Sprint Lighting Upgrade For Sprint St 1050

Quite a selection of bikes! The T100 looks great, and I'm sure has plenty of low--end torque with the twin cylinders. Do you find that the windscreen provides enough protection to be comfortable for a long day on the bike? Although I spend most of my time on the B-roads (county and local roads here), I occasionally have stretches on the interstate highways (motorways), with speeds easily near 80 mph. Hence, my move to the Trophy.

Actually, my name is Rob Roy, but that moniker was taken! No Scottish heritage, unfortunately; 100% French ancestry through Canada. PS. My next door neighbor here in the US is from Glasgow. When she moved in and I introduced myself, she thought that I was joking!

 

I understand that the Sprint is 590 lbs wet, and the Trophy is 662 lbs. Yes, it is a bit heavier, but I managed to ride my Sprint up a 3 meter ramp into the back of my pickup (about 30 inches/75cm load height), and hope that the Trophy won't be much different. The tricky part will be having the lift the rear end over so the bike travels diagonally in the bed so I can close the tailgate to tow a travel trailer (8 meters long). Not a problem with the Sprint, but the shaft drive on the Trophy probably adds a lot of the extra weight at the back (yikes!). My first bike was a 2004 Speed Triple 955. At 460 lbs, it was like riding a bicycle compared to these others!

I'm familiar with Robert Roy of the MacGregor clan, and actually visited his grave site when I lived in Hull for a short while. It says that he lived to the age of 72 (quite old in 1735). His son was hanged "for molesting a woman" when he was in his 20's, I believe. It was a little odd to see your name on a grave stone. The barkeep at the Rob Roy inn nearby didn't even offer me a free beer! I didn't think that I was being too cheeky asking.

My first bike was 2004 Speed Triple. At 460 lbs, it was like riding a bicycle compared to these two, but it was really not meant for long rides for me (I'm 62, and this was 6 years ago).

 

I'll try to keep up, but no guarantees on me riding much at 73 years of age!

 

There's no guarantees that ANY of us will still be riding at 73 ...... but, equally, there's no reason on God's green earth that you wouldn't EXPECT/HOPE/PLAN to still be riding then. I'm riding more now (at 73) than I have in the last twenty years - but there's a good reason for that - and I aim to keep on doing so for as long as I can hold a bike up. I'm sure you will, too, Rob!