Niken: it’s a tourer

Reading your article on the new Yamaha Niken (Bike, August). Like John Westlake I can’t help feeling Yamaha have made a mistake: whatever made them think the Niken was a sportsbike? It has tourer written all over it. Add better provision for a pillion passenger, luggage and a decent sized set of mudflaps to keep the spray off your feet. Least ways, that would be my course of action. Francis Cooper, email