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" We spent the better part of Friday throttling around the Santa Monica Mountains with other journalists on Suzuki&amp;#039;s latest Boulevard cruiser\u2014the M109R. The previous Boulevards were nice enough bikes but none of them had hairy chested brawn you need in a true muscle cruiser. Well, the new M109R certainly has the beef. Twist the right grip and hold on buddy. The power and torque from this injected, DOHC, water-cooled, 1783 cc V-Twin (whew that&amp;#039;s a mouthful) is ridiculous. This is a cruiser? It feels more like a sport bike. And it should with over 120 hp ready to melt that wide 240mm rear tire. The M109R chassis is all-new and up front is pretty much the same brake package as the Suzuki GSX-R 1000 sport bike. So despite weighing in at a porky 700 lbs.\u2014it stops well. It may stop like a sport bike but it doesn&amp;#039;t corner like one. You&amp;#039;ll scrape the pegs all day long if you ride this one hard. It may be fast, but this is still a cruiser folks.  The Suzuki folks mounted brand new TomTom Rider navigation units to each bike for us to evaluate. The Rider is basically the same TomTom unit we&amp;#039;ve been raving about for the past year but designed to the rigors of motorcycle and scooter use. The Rider comes with a few different mounting systems but we used a mirror mount that worked well.  The functions and interface of the Rider were great. But unfortunately, under all but the best conditions\u2014the TomTom was really hard to read. Sun glare was the issue. As the sun went down in the late afternoon, the screen was much easier to view. Problems aside, the system gave us a sense of security we&amp;#039;ve never had before when riding. We hate asking for directions.\u2014Ben Stewart "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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