Muuuahaaha. It's been sitting in the garage for a month. Somehow I managed to fight the urge to ride before our MSF course, which was today. After spending all morning tooling around on a Yamaha TW200 (hated it BTW, seat was really painful and throttle was really jerky, but it braked well) I figured we'd take the GS for a spin. Gotta say, waaay better than the 250's in the class. They almost seemed like 3/4 scale bikes. The throttle response on the GS is much smoother and overall much more fun to ride My wife and I tooled around our subdivision, having a good time hitting whopping speeds of 25 mph. Nice and smooth, other than a few reminders to myself not to look at the curb when turning...

I think my wife is hooked too. The GS is a good fit for her, the 250's were a little small for her taste and she had a lot more fun riding our bike. I came back from my turn and found her inside looking up leather riding pants... Yeah, something tells me we're going to need to add another bike to the stable soon... I don't plan on moving up from the GS for a while though, maybe we need to find another GS

  Cool man, the wife rides!

I was really surprised how much my wife enjoys a short trip to Ybor City for a beer and a burger. All I have to do is pull her helmet out of it's bag, and she's grabbing gear and putting on a pink bandana. Smiles, nothing but smiles.

It's a nice break from a hectic week, and she seems to treasure every single time we go play.

Congrats on the MSF, and the GS!

I thought I heard a gs today.   

My gf loves mine.  It doesnt look intimidating and handles well....plus when she drops it (and i know she will)  no damage to the fairings.

Yeah, I like the naked look

Today I got out onto a somewhat less busy state route and got up to 55. Interesting sensations without a fairing, but nice and breezy at least... I like the 1/4 - 1/2 fairing look too though, I'm not a fan of full fairings. I'm pretty sure at this point the next bike will be a 650 so I'll have to decide between the SV650, SV650S, Ninja 650r and V-Strom 650. Given the way my wife is getting into biking I'm guessing I'll have to procure another bike by next spring