We went through much the same discussion a couple years back when I convinced my wife we should do some bike trips together now that the kids were grown up. To break her in gently I suggested a few sunny summer evening trips to a country pub - wind in her face, smell the hay, at one with nature, that kind of thing. The little 400cc Honda we used was quiet and easy to ride and I thought she'd get on well with it but she hated it - too small and she complained constantly she thought she was going to fall off the back every time we hit a bump.
We looked at a whole load of bikes but after listing all the "desirable" features (her list!) this is what we ended up with -
Not much chance of her falling off the back of that! The pic is somewhere in New Mexico mid way through a 10k mile trip last year so it is possible to go from "I'm not getting on that death trap" to "where are we going next"
It's going to be a bit of a shock for you though coming from a KTM525 to any big road bike. You'll feel like you've sold a horse and bought a block of flats.
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