Dan, the reason for this is that afte you wrap your legs around this beauty and flick the wrist your sold and there is not much to not wax lyrical about this macchine. have ridden mine from one side of australia several time towing a trailer and with the child bride riding shotgun and it NEVER misses a beat. Across the Nullarbor through the Great Dividing Range (and it was snowing pretty well) but it was sure footed with power to spare, yep I will happily write PR for it.