[Tony Radford]

Gregg, I'm sure most of the folks in the forum family can fully appreciate your feeling after having been bitten. The less you feel like you can afford one, the more pain you feel. I personally feel like you would be kidding yourself thinking a Cobra could be utilized like a Honda Civic. With a 120 mile round trip to work, rain or shine, the experience would probably suck after a while (even though you live in a major Cobra-friendly area. One of the reasons they are so awesome is their lack of creature comforts and necessity to "pilot" as opposed to "drive". That great "thumpty thump" sound you like is a product of the act of exchanging reliability for brute power. If you don' t have a back up, you need to live near a bus stop.