Likes and dislikes so far...

This last couple of weeks have been bloody cold for those of you that didn't notice. So as you could imagine the sheep have been needing plenty of hay everyday to keep them going. The bike hasn't had any problems to date, which is good.

Yesterday, we started to house some of the ewes as we are due to scan this week. So, I got to test the bike's handling rounding up the sheep on all sorts of different terrain, ranging from steep banks, ridge and furrow to flat fields so overall, it got a full test.

On the banks the bike felt very stable and had plenty of grunt to get up to sheep on the steep parts and good brakes on the way down. They do seem to squeak when you go along a bank, but I just guess that's the front wish bone twist. Turning on the ridge and furrow, the bike showed very little sign that it wanted to turn over when turning sharply. On the flat, the bike gets to its top speed pretty quickly, you can really tell it's got EFI electronic fuel injection. At high speeds, there's no wheel wobble or anything like that.

Things I like and things I dislike so far on the Honda are: 

Likes:

- The bike feels safe on the banks

- It's a quiet bike for it's engine size

- Amazing power to weight ratio

Dislikes:

- Seat is very hard and doesn't take much of the shock on the bumps

- The seat has split, not ripped, split

- They don't have a jack plug/power point for a lamp or slug pelleter

- The front and rear cargo racks have been designed for looks: You can't sit a bucket of wheat on there without it tipping back or forwards