New from Texas

Welcome to the forum, I joined up looking for info on the FZ10 also, I have been riding Triumph triples for the past eight years, while they have been good bikes and reliable, the nearest dealer is 2hours away and I've not heard much about their reputation, the dealer I bought my bikes from lost his franchise in late 2013 as did many other small dealers. I rode the FZ at a demo and immediately liked the riding position and power, it lacks some of the electronics of the Euro spec nakeds but the things that matter can be easily upgraded, there are a lot of R1 parts that will work and 2WDW, a site sponsor can sort the fueling out. There are some nicely farkled bikes here setup for better performance or long range comfort or both. I plan to keep mine for awhile so I hope it lives up to Yamaha's reliability standard, once I add my personal farkles I will like the bike even more, for where and how I ride 95% of the time, it's a great bike, biggest nit is the fuel mileage. I have a similar back ground but you might have a couple years head start on the riding, I just turned 58, I like performance oriented bikes but sport bikes aren't as fun to ride all day as they once were, these new naked bikes and even some adventure bikes give up very little to a sportbike and it some instances they are a lot better to ride.