Back in the ‘80’s I worked in California for a couple of years on an electronics contract. The company provided me with a Lincoln Town Car which was about 70 feet long, I could park it at the office in San Jose and the back end was still in Los Gatos (look it up retards).
The president of the company invited me over for a barbecue, welcome to the company kind of thing and he had a 79 R100RT covered in dust in his garage with a scraped fairing and broken screen, he had bought it, rode it one day, fell off it and his wife banned him from riding it again, probably wise as he kept crashing his Jeep as well.
Anyway to cut a long story short, we got it into the boot of the Lincoln and I took it and recommissioned it, removed the screen and rode the shit out of it for two years, I even ran it around Laguna Seca a couple of times and rode through Death Valley on it, it was absolutely brilliant.
When I got back to the U.K. what did I go out and buy?
You guessed it.
A gixxer.