Well, as I was pushing the shopping cart or wallet down the isles, I had to, just had to stop at the frozen food section. I saw the mixed veggie package cuts of carrots, peas, other veggie selections from here and there.
I picked up the package, turned it over to read the info. Whoever wrote that article about the Tuono was right in every way was every sentence. As close as I could compare the cuts from say a box of snow peas, there was a little aussie cut from Rotax. Maybe some American kind of computer fan wire connectors you see used for the hardware in the computer tower. Those were some of the frozen parts added that are not fresh from the same farm.
So grower wise, you have this small cottage industry of bikes that seem to be somewhat exotic are their pedals, their flower buds, 'their leave' of the traffic light [fandango]. The way they taste. The MV, the Duc, Ape, Motogoosea, who else did I leave out of the package?
Of course you bring the package home, pour the content out all over the road. Picup what you want and don't want off the bike. The preparation of the product begins to shine a little light on what you bought against fresh off the vine. Plucked from many farms and here you go kind of parts package.
As you warm the content so carefully is the break in, or say the very first few miles it takes to understand what the content tastes like when fully prepared. You can sure taste the difference between a Seimens and a Mikuni brand. One package is scratching their head wondering why the home grown is not up to snuff with the dash or the dials on the oven? A wok ain't gonna make it anymore is watt you are saying?
She sends you a little burp the sync is not on the money with a 3 or 4 thousand dollar manometer call it. So exotic is the handcuffing of the ECU, do you run over to the next isle to buy that package to compliment the other package? Or do you handcuff yourself to the dealer door each time you make a mod?
Don't you dare add any more salt to the wound. I meant, do I have to buy a set of 'recommended' pipes or slips, run down to the dealer to have him go inside the software, toggle "Map2" is the lingo in the ape forums. I have no clue about a duc's quack, you go looking under the feathers to see how it pisses?
At least when you hack this bike, the dash pod keeps all the data up. The 14 will clear the board [I shoulda never told use the loophole] they read the 14 sites when it first came out. Don't matter. My mouth has been shut I loopholed another one.
Anyway, she is so exotic... how exotic is empire losing strength?... she'll tell you what winker went out, she has those 4 parameters covered letting you know. I've been rotating my same old set(s) of Honda winkers on and off bikes since the '80's probably. Here I thought it was my wire integrity, never chased the obvious was the bulb. I'm sure that Seimens has covered the stop/running/headlights if those went out too.
So exotic, you toggle up a trackday lap timer. I broke the bike in as per by setting the rpm limit. Shift too high an rpm, the red light blinks fast to get out, you are over limit. Program wise, yes, this is where the big4 need help and are behind big time or behind the 8Ball. And when you hire (steal away) Italian computer engineers for your gp racing pit, need I say more?
Comfort zone? She has no padding but more a race pad with a touch of padding. Nothing like the 14's seat. Same miles traveled, call it assburn, I have to get off the 14 and stretch or am done for the day. The ape? Where we headed? Fits me like a glove better than the 14. Maybe being a sitter upper. Naaaaaa, the seat height is there to peg to flavor to comfort. Another problem is that 14's comfort zone. The old farts will tell you. And for sure, this is an old fart's bike. Yes fast, but never fast enough. Go ass them, they'll tell you.
And that Seimens is so sensitive you start the bike wrong. The Mikuni works like a light switch. So bulletproof each time. The exotic is a nightmare you see it pegged at a 3,000 rpm is normal idle: until you key cycle it. And then it sometimes hangs, sometimes not. Maybe because it wants that 02 to warm up and I doubt it, because you have to catch the way I leave with a dead cold engine. Sometimes it won't, sometimes it will, meaning, I am more consistent at the same 'start it and leave.' Not, sit and warm for 5 minutes. I creep in that slow rpm, where I'm leaving the neighborhood is the warmup. Gutted pipe is the one side.
The transmission? Miss and it falls out like any other trans. Upshifting that Tuono has more of a close ratio racing box. Not really a true CR, maybe more like, you have 2 gears left if say you were doing the national speed limit. 4th is one smooth running twin. 5th and you bring rpm down, she begins vibration up. And that is where you don't want to be, so you are in a buzz sort of rpm, but so smooth meaning. And shifting up without clutch, you'll never miss you concentrate on the job. Same job with the 14 is 4th is vulnerable no matter WOT, meaning, your best day.
The performance? You are more frozen in time next to a cager. I love that line here someone wrote. Where I'll paraphrase his, 'duc had nowhere near the drive out of a corner like a 14.' I had some guy's tail end showing how we were even on brakes for that turn, but the drive, plus the downhill left that guy up there. And here I was about to exotic another round with a duc. Until the guy told me the ape was the faster bike. Last thing I want to do is step down in performance with a cager next to you? You've gotta be insane I buy a duc just for that reason. Yep, a 14 will spoil you rotten you jump on any other bike.
The handling? How can you compare Japanese handling to exotic handling? You can't. I've dwarfed a T-140 and a brit bike is cottage road handling. The GS and that german junk pile don't get me started, had the exotic handling. The ape is one more exotic handler. All different in their own way. I remembered [long ago] someone let me ride a Paso. Did I Lean Knee that marquee over enough to know it had the strangest exotic move of them all? The ride was so short, the exotic price I was on, I had to hold the Renzo down, so I turned around, turned the throttle so low, so as not to bring back a wad to him, inside or out. It was more a set and point kind of feel. A fast flop over kind of rake to trail. Straight up confidence, wad in your pants lean it over and commit boy! So no, nowhere near is the ape a duc stylexotic. Nothing funny handling wise like a duc. Chicken strip front tire. Not a sign of one on the back. I wish I could find that Tuono writeup I read.
The dependability? I think I'm close to 5k on the mileage. Short of the hack symbol that needs a factory clear, I don't care how dependable the bikes are. They wanna play hardball, we can get the universal download handhelds they have for cars for 30 bucks. Flash your own shit, meaning. Change your own fed compliant map2, your compliant aftermarket pipe anshit. Handcuffing at every corner! Where as you cannot create or destroy those 3 amigosolidquidgas.
The real deal. If someone brought to your door fresh from the farm or frozen... WATT?WOT would you choose 
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