It´s a great bike, very forgiving and comfortable. It is also fast, if you let it "breath" a little it will quickly go from "tour" to "sport" in about 3 seconds. It is not a super sport bike, and while i get very little respect from fellow pure sport bike riders, when we ride together no one I ride with can outpace me on my kat. It is not..I repeat, not...the bike to get if you are very interested in doing wheelies. It is just a bit too heavy and long to make wheelies easy. I will respectfully with-hold my opinion of my fellow bikers who choose to "wheelie"...I personally have witnessed too many injured friends and destroyed bikes to want to participate, but to each his own...darwinism will sort it all out. But the "kat 750 is the most underrated bike on the planet, and you will not be disappointed in it (unless you plan on doing alot of wheelies, then get a yamaha r-1