Well Al you haven't ridden with me or my mates, we have never and I mean never tootalling (as you say) around looking at the scenery, we ride hard and push each other to our limits when we are up in the ranges and its always a race to the next set of corners.
As what I said to you about turning your Seeley into a road bike I never said anything about running it with a close ratio gear box, as for Featherbed frames I think I know quite a bit about them and how to set them up right, I learned a lot from my mate Don who got me into Norton's and Featherbed frames, I learned by his mistakes and set my Commando/Featherbed up right from the beginning and over the 40 years of building it to doing a lot of upgrades and improvement in that time (it's my play bike) and I don't need to race around a race track to prove how well it is + I been riding my Norton on the road for 46 + years and it was an everyday rider till 2013 but it still get ridden regularly not a bike that gets taken out every 6 months or whenever you do get out on the race track and I think it's been sometime since you have been out on your Seeley.
If I did race around a track, which I have done so many times in my younger days it be ridden the same as when the mates and me are racing each other up in the ranges, it's the way I ride hard and fast and my Norton is built for it, it's set up like a race bike with just an added head light and tail light.
As for losing my licence yes been there 2 x for 3 months each time, not bad for riding bikes on the road for over 46 years, it's the risk we take and also where we ride with the mates the less chance of being caught, we avoid the main roads and I don't hoon around the suburbs and we also avoid the Sunday popular ride roads where the cops sit and hide.
As well who in their right mine flick their bike in a corner while braking, as for the Featherbed the sooner you put the power down while in the corner the better the Featherbed frames handle, you just slow down before you get into the corner and I can do that without using my brakes at all, I have a good front brake system but very rarely use my brakes up in the ranges.
Really Al I don't think you haven't had much experience on a well set up Featherbed, as well the subject is about Featherbed twins/Manx handling, its's not about Seeley's.
Ashley