

Seeing myself as having “been there and done that” with sportsbikes, I’m old enough to know better they are so focused and uncomfortable that unless you’re 21 years old and a black belt yoga master, the sportbike genre are like a religious experience 1% of the time and an uncomfortable explosion of power and the wrong tool for the job for the other 99. It’s been about a month since I rode the 2023 BMW S 1000 RR and the thing still looms large in my mind like some kind of celebrity encounter or unexpected, life-altering brush with fate. I also had more than my fair share of difficulty finding neutral On the black mark list, it’s very easy to stall and the mirrors are mostly useless.

