It's obvious that you are a fan of Japan, Inc. That's fine. I prefer the European sort. Yes, you're right, I like twins (incl. Buell) and sometimes a triple. Inline fours are about as exciting to me as a Buick. At the moment, I don't own a Ducati, and with their current styling, you couldn't give me one either. On the SV1000 front, I owned an '02 DL1000. Great damn bike, and yes, it had a sweet exhaust note (Remus). It's infinately reliable and waaay cheaper than the Euro counterpart too. Now to my Guzzi and Triumph. Are they perfect, absolutely not! Do I have a visceral [(M-W dictionary)crude/ elemental emotion] attachment to the mechanical happenings and iffy electrical systems, absolutely! (subconsciously, I think that I just like to work on them, tinkeritis) Of my bikes, I ride the least powerful, oldest tech, and stylisticlly questionable one the most. My Guzzi. It's like the Harley guys say "If I have to explain, you wouldn't understand" There's a lot of truth to that, and maybe I don't understand your connection to the "hyper-sport" style of bike. I was never attacking you, but rather the idea of BIG companies getting their fingers into the smaller builders. They don't belong. It would be like Anheuser-Busch running a microbrewery. It just ain't right.
