I've been spending the last year restoring a 'spares or repair' R6, 2004 model.
Took it to bits, rebuilt it selecting useable parts and replacing unuseables (including the engine). Finally got it finished last weekend, although there's still some cosmetics to be sorted, and mot'd yesterday with no probs.
First ride this eve to sample the fruits of my labour and I'd forgotten how lifeless the 600 4's really are! You got to rev the nuts of it and do a flippin river dance on the gear pedal to make it work, and although it goes like a fekin missile once in the sweet spot it's just far too easy and unemotional!
Really chuffed to have got it sorted and now I've got a bike that I can ride whenever I like, lob round a race track, not wake the neighbours up, get covered in road muck, etc...
But it's just cemented my desire to NEVER get rid of my 996.
I love my 996. Lots
