Okay, no sooner had I made the resolution below than I saw a couple of BMW Yuppies on a new 1200R. Pillion is in shorts, wearing flats, with a dachsund on her lap: it’s a large-as-life rolling remake of the 1963 “You meet the nicest people on a Honda” advertising campaign (that’s a thumbnail of it on the left.)

So, armed with my new resolution, I crossed the street and took a picture: