I WILL give you it is a nice ride for its age, although I have ridden quite a few other bikes myself, and I will say it is good, yet not great. But despite this I never miss an opportunity to throw my leg over her. I have ridden the rediculous R1, as well as the R6, Hyabusa, Magna, EX 500, just to name a few. My next move up will be a ZX-11.