A few more points I’d like to add.
One of the biggest things about this bike is… it makes riding a challenge again. After 7+ years or riding now, I will admit is has became rather mundane and I’m always on the lookout for ways to get more out of it and challenge myself again. Supermoto allows me to go off the road, faster bikes allow me to experience new thrill of speed, touring allows me to push all the other limits of moto experience… This bike in it’s mini size and its lack of horsepower gives you a whole new experience and challenge. It makes you want to time the lights properly so you maintain speed and momentum, it makes you feel wind resistance and how just tucking can actually give you a few mph top speed, makes you wonder once again about limits of traction on the skinny/hard tires and all of this comes in a very non threatening easy to manage package which doesn’t encourage you to go past the speed limit.
Best of all, after riding the Grom for a few hours, I would get back on the SV and something magical would happen. You remember that feeling you had the first time you go on a fast bike and wound up the throttle? The unexpected feeling of power that you haven’t had since your first week of riding as your body learns to expect that? Well the few miles you spend on the Grom somehow manage to reteach your muscle memory and expectations of the throttle. Your first few miles on your regular bike will bring that unexpected rush back and make it feel like a missile once again for a brief moment. It actually makes you re-appreciate the power and abilities of your bike that you forgot with all the miles of boring commuting. Consider it a magic eraser of expectations. Imagine riding in a stock Ford model T for a few hours at night. Brakes suck, headlights suck, power sucks, features suck etc and then getting into a new 5 series BMW. All those things you took for granted in modern cars and that you look over every day pop right out at you and make themselves apparent… thats what the Grom does just with motorcycles.
That to me alone is worth the price of the Grom.
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