Suzy-Q

Yesterday (Wednesday, November 29), as I walked out of the PT-gym, I noticed a guy preparing to depart on his tiny yellow Suzuki sport-bike.
It was probably only 600cc, but was endowed with all the current sport-bike accouterments. —Except the muffler, still a large cannon hung on the right side.
Current sport-bike practice is to tuck the muffler up under the seat. The Banana has this.
But I think Buell has a better idea; namely hang the muffler under everything between the wheels.
Buell has quite a few good ideas; another being the giant front brake-disc hung out at the wheel-rim. Too bad it’s saddled with an antediluvian boat-anchor of a motor. One wonders how long it will take the Japs to start using the Buell good ideas.
Mainly the Suzuki was small. I rode the mighty Kow a lot, but always felt it was big. This is despite it only being 600cc.
My FZR400 was the right size, but the motor was tiny. Pistons the size of thimbles, and valves (four per cylinder) like nails.
60 mph was 8,500 rpm — I always was looking for another gear.
The LHMB is small — more-or-less the right size.
I followed the yellow Suzuki a few blocks. At six feet the guy riding it seemed too big.
Its taillight was two parallel rows of tiny red light-emitting diodes.
And the rear-tire seemed to have quite a bit of tread — more of a road tire. Not the grooved slicks I usually see on sport-bikes.
So it might have been a V-twin — Suzuki makes such a bike.
But it looked like a sport-bike, and the guy rode it as such.

(Banana = LHMB [Lord-Have-Mercy-Banana] = my current motorcycle: a yellow Honda CBR600RR.) —My sister in Floridy, upon seeing it, said “Lord-Have-Mercy!” And my tub-thumping macho Harley conservative brother in Boston gave it that name.