Thought they'd be out to prove something over me, to be honest, but as I normally seem to choose the routes we take, I managed to nose my way up front.
After a quick Red Bull and Unleaded stop, we headed off onto one of my favourite B roads - which is pretty damn straight & quick, after a few early changes of direction. Anyway, it was either my memory of the road or large balls + V-twin grunt theat let me show all 3 a clean pair of cans (heels!)
Only once I'd slowed up in a 50 zone did the first loony catch me - probably by doing 80 in said 50, just to catch me!
Great fun!
Later on, i had half hour on my bro's R1, which I had been tempted to buy cheap earlier. He's keeping it now anyway, but made an odd comparison;
You sit a lot nearer the front wheel, the seat - peg relationship is more comfortable, the front end is more twitchy AND you have to hang off and put a lot more effort into turning the thing!
Was quite mad following my bike and hearing it roar off on the torque - I kept almost stalling the R1 off junctions etc. Fun, but would take a long time to get used to again after the Falco, which as my bro said "It's just effortless to go quick on!" think he was quite impressed & surprised at the same time.