The Code is the Design

Declining seemingly harmless requests to take pics with your bike may appear elitist, or excessive. But once you've agreed to it a few times, you'll understand why most people are so protective of their personal space and property (if only we could all be Keanu). Most people have no respect for personal space or property; will start with a seemingly benign request and gradually introduce scope creep (remember the camel and the tent); and do all this in such a falsely friendly manner as to make you seem like the bad guy for wanting to protect an expensive, dangerous and fragile piece of hardware. The delicateness of the situation will also prevent you from being openly defensive, and require great care and even sacrifice to resolve boundary violations peacefully.  It's like giving a loan to an irresponsible friend. The unnecessary favor now puts you in their control. It essentially leaves you open to unnecessary exploitation by those with anti-social tendencies . Just don...

By far the best bike in the market right now; in performance, chassis, build quality, VFM, power-to-weight (47BHP at just 175kg!) etc etc. But has a questionable service network and parts availability. Bonus: All the new REs have been phenomenal build quality and VFM — especially the 650 Twins — but this is probably the best RE 650 yet 😬 But it weighs 216 kg which is not good, quite heavy for a scrambler. The Ducati Scrambler has 50% more power and weighs 40kg less, but then costs 3x as much. So the RE Bear is still great VFM, especially with the Showa shocks etc.