Yay! Started the ride...got all the paperwork done (important everywhere & very much so here). I am in Dijon tonight - yes, where that mustard was first concocted. Appropriately, my UK tarp is just the right color. Seems the setup ends up looking alike on all the motorcycles. This one, at 741lbs a full 160 lbs less than the Victory, rides real smooth on the highways; wasn't going to take those but I got lost a bit and made up some time. French highways are pretty nice - smooth, no billboards anywhere & the trucks are OK. Not to mention the 81 mph speed limit, which must be obeyed or the cameras might get you. Here, you actually do get a ticket for 1mph over - cameras have even less compassion than the humans. Those really cute tiny villages look better from afar than stuck in one, where the speed limit hovers between  19 & 31 mph. Although they are nice to ride through, for a couple hours anyway.