Thanks for the little trip into the past JD. I reckon that letter would have been written in around 2005-2006, and my mention of a Beemer was certainly a peep into the future. My dearly departed Dad and I went to a bike show around that time, and I recall showing him an ST1300 on the Honda display, and describing it as my unobtainable dream bike. There's been lots of water under the bridge, lots of struggles, lots of kilometers under the wheels, and lots of dreams fulfilled since then.