What a machine!

[dank]

Took my Nomad out last night. Turned onto the freeway ramp at about 35 in third gear, rolled on the throttle, and rode that glorious torque into the sunset. Wow! I love that feeling. Used to have a Concours. Shift, shift, shift, shift heading up a ramp, but grab a handful of its throttle at 80 and things really started cooking, which in truth also was a marvel to experience each and every time. It could pass 100 before you knew what was happening, which doesn’t happen so dramatically on the Nomad. But so what? How often do you actually roll it on at 80 and go for 110? Rather, when they designed the Nomad, they put the gearing and the sweet spot for torque right where you really use them: rumbling off a two-laner and heading up an entrance ramp or cruising out of a corner onto a straight on a back road. Gotta love it. Hats off to the Kawasaki engineers. One year in I have 23,000 miles on it, and I conclude they made magic when they designed the Nomad.