No.
All antics, 50-65 age, were 2001 to 2016 with Peel only existing about 9 mo's in her prime, summer '04-winter'05 + 6ish more after 11,000++rpm test took scary dragster power down to ordinary Combat like sweet Trixie, so was like Ole Yellar ending by my own hand/heart. Spiffed up '00 SV650 had ~40K miles before getting weird cylinder drop outs, after 30 miles fine with extra spunk from going through everything repeatedly to optimalize so not electric nor carb but valve train wearing out, messing with the CV carb slide to flutter like a leaf. After last crash, on purpose being sedate, just leaning 46ish degrees nil power, 40s mph, after some fast tire heating errand runs, it wasn't fun anymore stressing to make it to pavement on such a cripple, gave it away to make room for other priorities. Corner school was spring 2001 after realizing I could best the local squids w/o much risk on SuVee was still too scared to break free on pavement as had on grass and Gravel, so bargained with Code to allow me to learn over doing it stupidly on a real sport cycle. I'd lost all interest in Commando after my SV650 so only keeping promise to late daddy I never finish anything just wanted no name clunker Combat sold to put into serious fast modern.
Another seeming fork associated fault, never mentioned because so few dare or have crisis tests like I have. Type of engine configuration, mass placement and flywheel gryo effects behave opposite in Vtwin vs inline4. Vtwin easy to tip over and stay there but fight ya through the forks trying to pop back up in time, while inline4 fight ya to tip down so extra fork effort throws a wiggle through frame and wiggles to hold down - innately wanting to hi side if pilot can can't work hard enough to resist and too often can't.
Those little hands off bar oscillations that seem to disappear with speed can/will show up again in next level of higher turning loads > much magnified. None of that crap concerns Peel so nil pilot effort/skill to exceed front tire traction.
For significance of hobot ramble, consider - my first outing on ape position sport bike and track getting handy enough to be 'similar' to seasoned pro's, 'comfy' in knee drag leans on good power, got into 270' sweeper (in public would have yellow 35 mph sign), getting to racers edge of steady state short of crashing, NAILED WOT -- YEEEHAWWDOGGYDOODOO EURKEA pavement was child's play easy. So worked into horrific tire hopping crash state oscillations both tires howling - felt like crossing a plowed field sideways til energy enough to easy trip down for the resultant saving hi side launch to both let the oscillations die down before impact and get most the turn done in air. Any other pilots care to discuss how wonderful a planned crash on corner cripple can be?
BUT corner cripples splish-splash so many cycles of harsh oscillations with wind & ground effects and road texture etc adding static till life risky unpredicable to trigger this each/everytime on fleeting right combo of frame/forks,patch/suspension rebounds. Point being I learned on moderns not vintage so can blow smoke out my ass at them as too crippled for such tiny increments of more fun. Hehe unintended Pun as exactly what Peel did to challengers till point elites states around sought out Kingston Norton Nut.
Just like my P!! invited geeky me into 1%'rs rank, Peel invited visiting fast draws sort of like old west. Lived on Peel day and night in favorite ride area, rear cords showing @ 3-4 weeks no chicken gaps extended mileage. Having 2" taller roadholders gave more lean angle and stayed in effect longer than squatty moderns forks by also extending more before lift off. Of course in Ms Peel's case the forks were being direct steered into decreaser to get frame wound up and held there by fork levering mass on rear and stem hinge angle feeling like a sky hook, till just let go like exactly like a sling shot any way I liked at any point in an arc so beside being no such a thing as perfect forks to a perfectly neutral cycle there is no perfect way through a turn, so Peel can turn em all into multi orgasms of sharpened decreasers in a row. Can out stop stoppie limited ABS moderns too so may also have the safest funnest rubbery clunker. Carry on with crippled wisdoms w/o Peel in sight.
Ms Peel is only really Neutral cycle fielded, takes same slight effort to trip down and pop up and no pilot effort needs once a lean set stays there even hands off like a bicyclers do - unless adding throttle or front tire slides across lip in road, so only a dampening effort not steering effort. Adding power or reducing power does not change her line or lean or turn radius - unless breaking rear free then if don't change fork or lean angle with slight effort, only slides on tangent outward till spin stopped to carry on like nothing happened. Flat trackers are swinging rear out but Peel does not as sliding of both tire equally so neither end tending to pass the other.
So bicker and bitch at me or Al but we know what ya missing out on.
