I was asked by a Suzuki riding buddy if the BA was a chick magnet. No it is not, but if you want to attract middle aged men it works like a super pheromone. Must be what attracted me to it 16,500 miles in two years and it just keeps getting better.
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.