After many years of ridiculing folk with big massive ADV bikes that would be terrible off road. I have had a big change of mind recently.
I bought a super lightweight CCM GP450 as a winter bike and a way of exploring some gentle green lanes etc.
But it’s the on road experience that’s brought about my changed view, the high seating position, sensible riding position and hugely compliant suspension make for a really, really nice road bike.
So I gotta eat my words, I get it now, most folk don’t buy them to go off road, they buy them cos they are such good road bikes (that can venture a little off road on occasions).
So, with that in mind, I reckon the Yamaha T7 has to be on the ‘best modern twin’ list, as does the Honda Africa Twin, and, shock-horror, so does the Big Massive GS…
So, I’ll be sticking with the CCM for now to see if mild off roading is my thing, but if it’s not, I think a T7 or Africa Twin could be on the cards in the FE shed one day…