Well I am just back from practice and I have to say I am impressed. It's taking me a while to find my race legs again. Slowly but surely I am getting there. In the last session I had an epic dice with an Honda RS250GP bike. The 800 had it out of corners on grunt, stayed with it all the way down the straight and could just squeeze past on top end!!!!!! How impressive is that?
The rider and his mechanic came over afterwards to shake my hand and said "WTF is that?"
The other SV650s were destroyed by it - they didn't get close. No contest. And this was all with a slipping clutch which, I have to fix this evening
All that remains is for me to ride it to its full potential. I've got no doubt that this is a superior race package compared to the SV.