My wife finds the GTS comfortable with a Corbin & backrest--we've travelled 200 to 300 miles/day w/no complaints. Mike Coan & his SO Susan are probably the best example of using a GTS 2-Up-- they travel 10 out of 12 months on the GTS. Steve Puig San Salvador ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Multiple recipients of list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2000 8:28 AM Subject: pillion viewpoint > > Yesterday I actually got out a bike, first time in months. A friend also > was going riding, but his bike was in the shop in Deming, NM, about an > hour from here. I offered to give him a pillion ride over to get his > bike, then we'd do the twisty route home. > > When we got to the shop, he volunteered an interesting observation. When > he dropped off the bike a week earlier, another mutual friend brought him > back to Las Cruces on the back of his BMW R100RT. The immediate comment I > got was that the GTS is a far superior pillion ride. > > I find this especially interesting, since the R100RT is supposed to be one > of the best two-up rides around (excepting the really mongo bikes like > Goldwings). I've never ridden on the back of mine, but this is a very > favorable review. And the comment came from a person with no special > interest in either bike, so it's presumably pretty fair. (And a person > who's been riding for close to half a century, and is about 5'10" tall.) > > OK, my SO has always said the back of the GTS is not a bad ride. Anyone > else doing much two-up riding out there? > > Phil > > P.S. The Corbin with the backrest in position was on the bike. The > backrest was a major positive. > >
