This story follows on from a couple of previous posts about my BMW Funduro. https://oldandireland.blogspot.com/2019/01/padock-days-part-4-tales-of-ice-and.html  and https://oldandireland.blogspot.com/2019/02/i-bought-vampire-motorcycle.html If you have read some of the previous rants hereabouts, you will already know that my own personal transport solution is a motorcycle.   It makes sense to me, but I will jot down a few justifications here for a (hopefully) wider audience.  Current transport - a 2003 Suzuki Burgman 400 I’ve used a couple of different bikes between the failure of my BMW Funduro which is documented in a few other posts on this blog.   The first short term solution was to put my old 1974 BMW R75 back into commuting service.   It is not ideal for this purpose.   Many bikers will immediately assume that this unsuitability stems from the cylinders of the horizontally opposed engine sticking out too far, making traffic filteri...