Merci beaucoup!  Les traducteurs sont très utiles.  Cependant, les articles techniques sont un défi, même pour Google. :-D

It really is the perfect city bike.  My brother has an Intruder 700, and my brother-in-law has a Ninja 250.  But they call my bike "the fun machine."  I took about 4cm off my handlebars, and I love buzzing past bigger bikes that are stuck in traffic.  Also, I have had bigger bikes, and I tend to drive like a real asshole when I have basically unlimited power.  So my TW keeps me a lot safer despite myself.

So... When and where is the next annual meeting?  Somehow I think I might be able to convince my wife that we need to go back to France.  :-)

Thanks, everyone for the warm welcome!  "Le non-motard" -- I can understand your fears regarding motorcycles.  I definitely plan on renting a bike (hopefully a TW) next time I travel to France, but I am apprehensive about it because the driving in Paris is fairly aggressive.  It is aggressive in NYC also, but there are far fewer motorcycles.  Also the signs are in English. :-)  "Le sage" -- I didn't realize that most of the TWs I saw in Paris were 125s.  The 200 is the only model available in the states.  The TW's lack of popularity here is strange to me.  Until recently, small urban motorcycles have not had much of a market.  But Vespa has re-invented itself, and there are now a ton of them here in NYC.  The TW, however, is still seen as basically useless -- bad at dirt and bad at street.  And not trendy enough or easy enough to drive for the Vespa crowd.  On the other hand,  for the people in the US who own TWs, they *love* them.  And it really is a perfect city bike, although I do sort of wish they made a TW400...
-Aaron

Merci!  :-)

Hello,
I'm sorry, I don't speak French.  It is very cool to see that there is a website devoted to my favorite kind of bike.  I just finished doing some customization on my TW200, and a lot of people are intrigued because there are almost no TWs in New York City.  A few days ago a guy on a Ducati M900 chased me down to ask me about it.  He said the TW looked like a perfect city bike, and he regretted spending so much money on his Ducati.  He really liked the back tire.  I was in Paris last year and was excited to see so many TWs; they are so rare in the US.
-Aaron
http://www.couts.org/photos/tw200