Danny
It is… different!
Hard to explain but from riding bikes for 47 years I still have a tendency to want to lean, which does not translate so well on a trike…lol
Not got many miles under the wheels yet but it probably similar to an open door open top convertible experience, very surreal at time especially with the front windshield adjusted to deflect all air way over my head.
I like I am still very aware of all the surroundings, one needs to have all 6 senses functioning to survive on todays roads in any transport mode but especially bikes.
Sure it is nowhere near as nimble and it does take a surprising amount of bar effort to change direction, that might be the biggest shock but possibly better than too light and over steering with disastrous consequences.
Overall it cannot really be compared to a 2 wheel or 4 wheel experience but if I had to I would say it comes closer to 2 wheels apart from the lean aspect.
Mine has 6 manual gears so everything is where you expect it to be from a bike perspective, also odd having no right hand front brake lever and just the foot brake, found myself reaching for the non existent lever a few times already!
I think we are going to enjoy it a lot!
Was looking at getting the MT09SP but the dealer couldn’t get one until next year,so Mr.Impatient here bought the 07 as it had just come in to the dealers.
I belong to that chapter as well,lol.
Never tried one but quite fancy a go on one just for the novelty
Another bike I had. 1200gs, 30th anniversary with sergeant seat rather than the red one it came with.
One of my last road bikes before I left the UK back in my race-licence holding days. A 2003 Aprilia 1000RSV-R. I loved this thing. The cute guy next to it is Bailey, he was an awesome boy.
I don’t seem to have any photos of my race bikes anywhere. The trials of multiple laptop changes and pre-dating the advent of cloud storage, I guess.
My last steed that I bought when I got to Oz. I realised within 200km that sports bikes had got smaller and I had gone the other way. Age and a love of pies meant I finally decided to hang my leathers up in 2016. This beast was beautiful though - I did contemplate keeping it and putting it on display in the house. Truth is that I felt it ought to be loved, ridden hard and put away wet; so it got sold and I spent the proceeds on a home theatre instead.
Lol know the feeling.
When I was looking for an MT 09/07 I sat on a kawa H2 and a Yam R1 struggled to get my feet up onto the pegs, mind still young, body said NOPE.
Yep
I tried a Buell Firebolt 1200 out for size which is really not even that extreme…
Maybe for 10 miles…
You can do that with a BMW too… 
Watch from approximately 1:35 BMW R 1200 GS Adventure Extreme OffRoad - YouTube
I actually found some of my racebike photos, they are old school so I think I will take a bit of time and either scan them or just take digital pictures of the actual hard copy and maybe post some.
I do have a sequence of pictures of about 10 where I lowsided at Cadwell park with of course a pro photographer on the corner…he gave me the pictures, said he did not have the heart to charge me…lol.
Haha! I loved Cadwell. I think it was my second favourite track after the old Donington layout.
My race bike was based on a CatD insurance write-off 2002 Aprilia RSV. I got race plastics, new air filter box and filter, lightweight decat exhaust, changed the fuelling and added a Power Commander, replaced the factory pegs with Sato Racing rearsets, changed the clip-ons, went to work on lock-wiring everything, replaced the suspension front-and-rear with fully adjustable Ohlins sprung for my weight. I seem to remember taking a hacksaw to the pillion subframe too. After stripping off all of the unnecessary road parts (lights, mirrors, pillion bits, number plate holder), I’d removed about 25kg.
All that effort and it lasted less than a year before I spectacularly binned it at Rockingham on the in-field. A featureless vista made it very easy to lose track of exactly where you were on the circuit. A bit of an issue when you’re barrelling into a corner which is not the 90degree turn you thought it was, but is in fact much tighter. Was heartbreaking: sliding along tarmac on your arse at 130kph+ watching the bike mount the outside rumble strip, slide all the way through the gravel only to dig into the turf the other side and subsequently cartwheel itself across half of Northamptonshire and into oblivion.
I lived about 20 minutes from Cadwell so it was my local track…and I got over confident…lol.
Never really liked Donnington too much.
I think Snetterton was my next favourite, very fast and the corners were not really that challenging imho.
The worst track and scariest I ever rode was Olivers Mount at Scarborough, never ever again!
I loved Donington because of the Redgate and Craner sequences. So damn fast. But the knee-and-elbow-dragging and showboating through the Melbourne loop and the last corner was absolutely hilarious. I once went through a set of knee-sliders in a 20min practice session there.
I used to live 15min from Brands Hatch. The full GP circuit is a thing of beauty on both 2 and 4 wheels. Paddock Hill was an absolute exercise in blind faith.
Age and physical impairment be damned 
Thanks Leon - that seems to depend on the interpretation of ‘you’ 
In fact, I took a 2 day off-road GS training in Germany this summer and I was totally surprised at what I was able to do with these big machines. Very well worth it!
Aah, jealous. Mine has zero kilometers since begin 2019… 
(Work)
I’ve done a couple of the BMW off road’s in Wales. The things I was doing at the end of the first day was way more than I thought both the bike and myself were capable of. Great fun.
Found my stash of old hard copy photos from England, thought I might share a few over the next few days, I hope you appreciate the effort in this one!
Race day at Cadwell Park on CBR600, looking good, hunting them down…
Oh carp…this is going to leave a mark…
Quite a tough old beast(the bike not me!), after that I was able to rip the broken plastics off and get back out there after lunch!
I think this is the same corner as your top pic, @AceRimmer. Right-hander tipping-in just before The Mountain?
Anyway, this is me on the race bike on an open track day. My mate Giles behind chasing me on his 954 'Blade which he rode to and from the track.
Not quite.
The top pic is the right handler just before you go downhill to the left hander that then leads up to the short straight leading to the mountain….I think…lol.
I binned it at that downhill left hander , just to much gas and low sided the burger
#9 on picture and binned it at #10.
Or could have been top photo was #9&10 and binned it at #11.
Long time ago.
