Having put ~100 miles on the new beast, I must say I'm impressed. Impressed with Traveller that is! Someone once said that "to appreciate your new bike, one must ride an old one" and that is very true. The Yammy is in excellent stock condition, but boy is it crude compared to the NT. It is the visceral riding experience that I remember back in the day but I forgot about how crude the brakes, suspension etc. were. One thing that is immediately apparent is the lack of a windshield. Riding at 70mph has me hanging on for dear life. As the years pass, one forgets how extreme the wind pressure is at speed. The one thing about the new (old?) scoot is that it has self-cancelling turn signals! A forty year old bike! It couldn't have been to difficult for Yammy to implement, so how comes 40 years later our bikes don't have this feature? I'll post some pix of the new scoot as soon as I remember how to do so.
Mike