Although this bike doesn´t have the power of my old TL 1000 or my old Blackbird, this thing is awesome! Seeing how you can pick these up for around $3000, they are great bikes! It is so comfortable that I can ride it all day no problem, great mileage (40mpg), it´s pretty fast when you keep the revs up and this bike handles a lot better than my old bikes - even though the TL was around the same weight it felt a lot heavier amd twitchier through the twisties. My only complaint is the brakes which seem to be either "on" or "off" I´m going to throw some EBC green stuff pads and see how it goes. Almost forgot to mention that it came with a D&D slip on and it sounds ****IN! I´ll keep y´all updated on the brake thing.