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stevegrab:

--- Quote from: Brick on February 12, 2019, 09:36:13 AM ---
--- Quote from: Traxx on February 08, 2019, 05:04:04 PM ---I agree that you can tour on anything, however I am past the age of “embrace the suck” I want to tour in comfort and with my stuff.

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Hmmm... “embrace the suck”?  I’m not sure if this. Perhaps I’m too old?
I do have many comforts on my Tenere and on the FJ-09. Am I embracing the suck???



Brick


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I think that "embrace the suck" was referring to touring on a pure sport bike, something most of us have moved past.

Appears to be military slang, means "To consciously accept or appreciate something that is extremely unpleasant but unavoidable." 

Brick:

--- Quote from: stevegrab on February 12, 2019, 11:44:39 AM ---
--- Quote from: Brick on February 12, 2019, 09:36:13 AM ---
--- Quote from: Traxx on February 08, 2019, 05:04:04 PM ---I agree that you can tour on anything, however I am past the age of “embrace the suck” I want to tour in comfort and with my stuff.

--- End quote ---

Hmmm... “embrace the suck”?  I’m not sure if this. Perhaps I’m too old?
I do have many comforts on my Tenere and on the FJ-09. Am I embracing the suck???



Brick


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I think that "embrace the suck" was referring to touring on a pure sport bike, something most of us have moved past.

Appears to be military slang, means "To consciously accept or appreciate something that is extremely unpleasant but unavoidable."

--- End quote ---

Hmmm... OK the military explanation sounds right for the saying. However, while back in the day, I did my “Maximum with Minimum” Sport Touring on bikes like CB-900F’s I absolutely loved it. But then those were not outright sport bikes. So I never had to embrace the suck.

Back in the HSTA days, “Maximum Minimum” was a Club saying.

Brick


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Patmo:
still my steed of choice....and I'm almost 63 now.  Smaller and lighter bikes fit me better.  But to each their own.  It's all good!

HawkGTRider:

--- Quote from: Patmo on February 12, 2019, 12:02:36 PM ---still my steed of choice....and I'm almost 63 now.  Smaller and lighter bikes fit me better.  But to each their own.  It's all good!

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Can I have an amen on "smaller and lighter"? My F650GS is under 400# dry weight but is still capable of going just about anywhere I should consider going via paved or unpaved roads.

NinjaBob:
This was my ride for my longest trip to a STAR

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