Good to hear Sierra. Perhaps the others have not ridden sports bikes or powerful bikes. I am 55 but my mates are 65-74, they have no teeth and smell but ride quick bikes 1000c plus stuff and or, M10's, street triples, sports bikes, ZZR's etc and are all very experienced, they ride quickly. They don,t care, they have all had heart attacks, strokes, cancer, and live on statins and blood pressure tablets
. My FJR's sheer power enabled me to keep up with them when I was learning on it. It was really hard work though, not the bike to go around A road twisties, being such a heavy lump even with the panniers off. I was on the limit much of the time... hairy stuff. We don,t ride like that much any more, we seem to have calmed down. The FJR was exhausting after an hours full on riding, the S10 is just light and relaxed through the bends.
The S10 is like the GS in that it is sooo easy to ride. It's like a big push bike. I wish I had learnt to ride on that but then I have gained skills and an appreciation of getting a bend right that I would not have had learning on the Tenere. If you cock a bend up on that you can do something about it, with the FJR once you had committed your line to a bend that was it. The good ship FJR would just go straight on. Thankfully I only ever went over the white line once and missed a hedge once which makes you learn quickly!!
The Tenere gives you so much confidence in bends. I have never had a bike like it, even better than the GS. I am leaning over quite relaxed further than any other bike I have ever ridden now the tyres are scrubbed in. I absolutely love it, what a relaxed, easy, fun ride she is...
I think the majority of Tenere riders are probably older and calmer Sierra. We ride pretty much every day and are tuned in all the time. Most bikers are fair weather riders that do up to three thousand miles a year and plod on looking at the scenery and there is nothing wrong with that. They come in in droves to our biker cafe at the weekend, scary to watch the lack of skills on some. We do about one thousand a month just messing about and riding to coffee shops etc arguing about who's round it is and taking the mick out of each other. Half of them are deaf so they can't hear it anyway
LOL.