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I couldn't actually. I only have a couple of criticisms, and if I wanted to I could find as many faults with any bike.
But I don't want to.
It's very unlike me too. I've always been disdainful of haters, who seem to hate a certain make or model just for the sake of hating something, or because it's not what they drive, or what they're father and grandfather drove, or because it's not "American". I've been building and driving Mustangs for over half my life, and I never let myself get sucked into the petty Chevy vs. Ford bullshit, or the picking on "ricers", or hating on Mopar's, or any of it. I love performance, and love anything that's put together well to corner hard and go fast, regardless of the badge on the hood or continent it was born on, and I have always despised people who did. It would irritate me when the guy in the other bay at the garage was changing his third dead alternator in his old Camaro while I was dialing in my coilovers on my 'stang and he'd give me the old "I'd rather push my Chevy than drive your Ford" line, but I'd chuckle at the irony of it knowing my daily driver GT would kick his ass at the drag stip, pull well over 1G on the skidpad, run circles around him on the road course and at 275K on the original 5.0 didn't know what a tow truck looked like. I was smarter than him, faster than him, and still had the grace to compliment him on his ride which would probably be pretty sweet if he knew jack shit about anything.
And now I find myself doing the same thing here in the bike world and for the life of me I can't see how it happened: but I HATE Gixxers. Not because of the squid association, not because they're butt ugly, not because they're fragile and crash like a bag of potato chips, not because the GSXR600 is the number one choice for chick sport bikers everywhere. I don't know why, it's completely illogical and entirely contrary to the way I have behaved my whole life, but I do. Hopefully the poison of my new found hypocrisy doesn't spread to other areas of my life as I age...
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to one who is striking at the root."
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