if she could sit on it as she was looking at buying
one, and wanted to know if she could touch the
ground. She was five foot nothing. Suddenly it
was clear that my bias was causing me to seriously
under-estimate both appeal and ability. I passed
the lady on to the local dealer and I suspect she
will be happily aboard one in a week or so.
Kawasaki has a system called ‘Ergo fit’ for precisely
the reason alluded to above. One 130kg rider over
six feet in height, also keen to hop aboard, could
be accommodated with bars and pegs moved
forward, and seat moved back - up to three inches
of adjustment can apparently be accommodated
to fit each rider with ‘extended’, ‘regular’ and
‘reduced’ fittings. And so can the shorter rider.
Both of these people went away, excited and
interested. A small boy of around four-years-old
was round-eyed with excitement, and a man sitting
at the bus stop got his phone out and filmed it for
a minute or so, as he walked around it. So it does
have a market, and a damned varied one at that.
On the open road I thought I would dislike it,
I’m no fan of single seats and prefer to be able
to move around