AT Dislikes?

The seat is not as good as the reviews say it is.

I ordered the tank deflector and a taller windscreen and pieced together a $10 home depot mod
and the buffeting is gone and the ride is now much quieter.

I ordered a G2 throttle tamer to lose some of the jerkiness in the throttle.

Not perfect by any means but better.

Too many body panels to deal with get to critical maintenance areas.

ST and Pacific Coast designers must have needed a project.

Foot peg must be a major design goof they decided not to address.

I find the plastics to be not a big deal. They are easier to remove than the ST1300 plastics I used to deal with and I'm not seeing a need to remove them very often anyway.

The seat is OK, but could be better. After some longer trips I'll decide if I'm going to buy a Corbin or maybe a Sargeant seat.

The original tyres are OK, but they are taking up room in the garage - maybe I should sell them. So far I'm quite liking the E07 rear tyres for road & gravel performance combined with good life. The TKC80 front tyres seems OK on the road and very good on gravel, hopefully it gets a good life too.

Add-ons are quite costly, but that isn't something I can blame on the bike - more related to me deciding how I want things to be. Currently I'm saving for a set of Bumot panniers since my bank balance was destroyed by purchasing the brand new (2017 model) AT - US$1200 + shipping + local sales tax (15% GST) when it arrives in the country = quite a bit of money.

Overall I'm loving the bike, even though I know I'm going to spend thousands more on various things I want to change.

I have only owned one bike with tubeless tires. While tubes are perhaps somewhat more dangerous if an object reaches the tube, I don't think it is a significant difference.

A buddy of mine had the tubless rear tire of his BMW R1200 RT completely shred while on a road trip. He and his pillion where lucky to have not wrecked and he quit riding right after. So it isn't as though tubeless tires are immune to catastrophic flats.

Both tire types are capable of popping, shredding or otherwise rapidly deflating.

So while tubes may be inherently somewhat more dangerous, there are a ton of bikes out there with tubes and they aren't getting catastrophic flats and killing their riders on the regular

I would think the ability to possibly plug and re-inflate a tubeless tire, would be a bigger draw to road bikes than the fear of a catastrophic flat? ¯\(ツ)/¯



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One thing that I found of interest, because I have never actually researched it, is how relatively few high speed tire blowout videos there are. I get it that not everyone has a camera recording at the time, but you would think that with the number of bikes and cameras on the road that the number would be higher. But i think "blowouts" which are a catastrophic failures are pretty infrequent for either tire type.

In the videos that are posted, we usually don't get all of the details and underlying info such tire condition, tube condition (if it has one), road conditions, speed, load, etc.

I only know of one person that has had a blowout and that's my buddy and his BMW RT mentioned above.

I have a known a couple of people who have gotten flats on the road, but I don't recall the circumstances of all. One that I do recall, was a valve core that had failed. Again on a tubeless tire, likely due to the shop where he had the tires done over tighten it, cross-thread it or something when reinserting it.

Between my wife and I we have only had a couple of flats over the years and I was the lucky recipient of both. In each case the rear tire has picked up a nail and the flat was discovered the next morning. Likely pickup up the nail in the hotel parking lot or on the campsite grounds rather than the roadway.



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