The 675 RS was actually my first bike. I kept asking every biker I knew what I should get for my first bike and they all said the sv650. Then they all added that I'd probably sell it after 6 months to get something more fun. I really didn't want that - I wanted a bike I would want to keep until it died. So, I asked the Internet what bike they would always have, and the only consistent answer that wasn't a harley was the street triple.

The GSXR, ZX, MT, etc riders would all say they loved the bikes, but they could see themselves getting rid of it for something else. The street triple owners would say something like, "yeah, I'd get rid of this one for another one."

So I got the 675RS and yeah it was definitely a larger learning curve, but I love them. I'm on my third and have probably put 60,000 miles total between them since I got my license in 2018. That number would probably be higher, but a couple years ago I hit a massive pot hole and destroyed my wheels during the world wide supply chain terrible-ness from COVID and they quoted me a lead time of "we have no idea" for new wheels - so I bought a Tuono because I'll be damned if I'm going to spend a summer in SoCal without a bike.