We had a Douglas Park Motorrad rideout from the showroom in East Kilbride to the Fife coast, yesterday. Forty five people, mostly riders with one or two passengers fetched up for a fish 'n' chips lunch at the Waterfront Restaurant in Anstruther, courtesy of Douglas Park. Following that we headed to St Andrews by way of Crail, then to Cupar and the folks from the west headed home. For the part after lunch, I had an S1000RR and two K1200S hanging onto my coat tails.... 
However, later in the evening I happened to be out on some of the same roads in SWMBO's '63 plate VW Tiguan which only has some 5K miles on it. It doesn't have the stiffer Sport suspension option and rides on 17" wheels rather than the 19s of her previous R Line model. However, I felt that the ride seemed really quite hard until it occured to me that this was in comparison with the ride quality of my GS earlier in the day. It's something that's not discussed much, to the extent of being largely overlooked, but the ride quality provided by the Dynamic ESA is really pretty amazing. It's very easy to become used to it very quickly and take it for granted until you get such an obvious back-to-back comparison. Equally, I did a 250 miles around gnarly Borders B roads with a friend on a Wee Strom a couple of weeks back. He complained about the effect of the bumpy road on his gonads. "Bumps - what bumps, John....?", I said.
However, later in the evening I happened to be out on some of the same roads in SWMBO's '63 plate VW Tiguan which only has some 5K miles on it. It doesn't have the stiffer Sport suspension option and rides on 17" wheels rather than the 19s of her previous R Line model. However, I felt that the ride seemed really quite hard until it occured to me that this was in comparison with the ride quality of my GS earlier in the day. It's something that's not discussed much, to the extent of being largely overlooked, but the ride quality provided by the Dynamic ESA is really pretty amazing. It's very easy to become used to it very quickly and take it for granted until you get such an obvious back-to-back comparison. Equally, I did a 250 miles around gnarly Borders B roads with a friend on a Wee Strom a couple of weeks back. He complained about the effect of the bumpy road on his gonads. "Bumps - what bumps, John....?", I said.
Anyway, isn't it about time that you bought one so that you can join in the discussions in this forum from an informed perspective rather than just hanging around to bask in the reflected glory of the *Glitter Boys*? 
