Traffic - other than the pleasant thing of being able to power past anything (which my scooter also does but less convincingly obviously) it is a ***** and a nightmare.
In fact, I would go so far as to say, point to point, my scooter is far quicker, far comfier, and far more useful and sensible. This just confirms my theory.
Day to day, scooter wins hands down, convincingly with hugely significant clear water between the two. This thing is a PIG in traffic. Not comfortable, hot and unwieldy.
Very nice ride report - I have to strongly disagree with the above though - I do a 20 mile a day commute in stop-go holiday traffic avg 25-45mph, and a few blasts at 65 or so for 2-3 miles - I have no problems at all in traffic, the bike gets you respect, ppl will often move out of the way and let you blast by (helps with purple halogens), you're sitting up nice and high so can peep over cars and plan your moves well ahead, get yerself an ear-splitting Steibel horn and get used to using it instinctively, the suspension soaks up everything thrown at it, in fact I've hit one speed bump that I forgot about (had just o/taken a granny in a hearse-like Caddilac) - this was a 6ft wide 6inches high bastard, at 45 mph, and whilst I was thrown off the seat a few inches, the front end just shrugged off the incident, almost flattened the s/bump TBH
did the same thing on another speed bump hidden in shadows at 30 mph, same thing - so, bullet proof suspension, and as was said earlier, counter-steering pays off big time, before making a turn at low speed do the wiggle, it works - read the write up in BIKE magazine recently, and yes the bike is LTD at 125mph and the first 3 gears to a big restriction - as HellFire sez, a GI pro is the way to go!
