owned for 2 months... 2400 commuting and travel miles...runs like a top...all day comfortable...smooth and quiet...gotta rev it and let the clutch out a little more than i like (especially up a hill) other than that ...i just don´t see any other bike in this price range that will do everything this one will..even tho this is a first year model (a bandit with a katana full fairing) suzukis are bullet proof...if you´ve got the extra coin, a yamaha fz6 is probably a little more bike in this category...with even more extra coin the logical choice is the bmw 800...i got the black/silver version and removed the boy racer decals... i get an awful lot of admiring stares and have been asked if its a bmw more than once.