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Old 01-18-2020, 09:39 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Nice bike. I had a 2002 R1200R for 13 years and really liked it. I had a parabellum shield for awhile but didn't like the way crosswinds could caught the shield and put a shimmy through the bars. I ended up replacing it with a generic small shield.

I really like the telelever suspension. The front doesn't dive under braking so you still have suspension travel in corners. I went from a ZX-7RR to the BMW and very quickly was more comfortable trail braking into corners on the the BMW compared to the Kawasaki.
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