Cheers,
I love it, it's a brilliant bike. A little dissapointed with the mid range, not a major gripe but I feel they could have tuned the road versions for more mid range torque and kept the track bias for the "R".
As said not a major issue just a shame to loose a characteristic us V-Twin owners have come to know and love. I reckon their thinking has been a little over shadowed by their fall off in World Supers (not changing the rules to suit them anymore
) the little things like the rear exhaust heat issue, not a problem here with our ...... climate but it seems to be a major pain in hotter climes.
In fairness to them they are trying to address the issues as they come up (new maps for mid range, revised heat shield etc). Mind you most manufacturers including Ducati over estimate the value of race results versus bike sales. Personally I'm not bothered whether they're winning races, I buy my bikes based on my own likes and dislikes, always have. The days of "race on Sunday, sell on Monday" are long gone, just look at Suzuki, they've hardly won a race never mind a championship on the world stage for years , but Gixxers still sell well.
Sorry went off on a tangent there, short answer, love the bike, one of my favourites
