Its actually surprisingly comfortable, similar to the suzuki GSXF, which also has a slight forward leaning posistion, but they designed the front hood so supply your chest with an airstream, so you get your support there. Works really well I must say after driving both of them. Havent looked in too much in to mileage yet, so far I´ve been looking at whats comfy, and lets face it, it´ll always be better than a car. Now I just need to convince my girl that we should get a motorcycle instead of a car.... wish me luck...
As far as infuriating Petra.... first you´d have to get her to care.... and I have no idea how to do that to be honest... maybe send the dynamic duo of the political section to her house in the middle of the night after putting in her address in the usertitle field?