Awesome road, miin32! Happy to be back in Europe? How much did it cost to ship your bike back? It must attest your love for that bike if you chose to ship it there rather than sell in the USA and get a new bike back home.
Germany has been a bureaucratic nightmare but on the whole I'd rather be here than in America. The riding is excellent- did a short ride today (Labour Day holiday today) and there's tons of fun even within a 30km radius. Google search Spessart and Odenwald.....quite the playground. I'm a bit timid cuz the roads are all new to me and I'm still on US plates but over time I'll get to know the roads.
Yes, it cost a chunk to ship "just a 320cc" over, but I like the bike quite a lot and I also put a lot of money into it. The power-hungry people of Germany and US may not think much of its power, but it is plenty for the fun roads around here. A lot of the roads in Europe are very old, so things like blind, decreasing-radius curves are very frequent and unmarked. The 320cc lets me rocket out of town limits and in between corners without having the
putain moments. Also, many backroads are not fully two-vehicle widths and as you can see, don't have run-off so there's a degree of maturity required.
I'll try to get on the track some point this summer though.