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My ST4s has the wheel well off the ground when on centre stand and I don't have problems turning in. You just have to apply the quickturning techniques. The instructor at CSS was actually telling me to calm down the quick turns at last CSS.

I have to say that I would not quite know what to move to as everyday bike. I have now clocked 33,000 (catching you up Monty) and it does everything that I can throw at it. City commute, distance commute, ride out and as the 998 is not ready took her on CSS day and was well impressed. Felt everyway like a Ducati and was creaming quite a few race bikes through the day. The instructor even said at the end of the day that I was doing very well with a bike like "that". Told him that he would be surprised how good it was.

Re mods-
- I fitted a Odyssey battery. Great one and no issue with cranking the engine no more... but need to hack the battery tray and need to reposition the ECU.
- You want to put some silicone in loom going to ECU as water runs down the sleeves and rots the cable at the bottom.
- I have put some 4 pads calipers at the front. Great but need to be regularly cleaned up.
- I ran some 6 piston PFMs for a while. Awesome brakes IMO, I rate them as good as the Brembo GP stuff that I have on the track bike but too harsh for the road.
- I have tried to put 999 master cyls - forget about it. After much swearing in multiple languages I gave up. The lines bolt underneath and that conflicts with the switch gear and throttle. Trying to pivot those slightly is a mess, controls are out of place and still you have to force things in. Pivotting throttle cable 180 degres also means it becomes too short. So you'll have to fit entirely different switch gears and throttle if you wanted to go that way and the stuff from other bikes is not a straight replacement.
I'll probably fit some Pazzo racing levers, that will do.
- I will invest some day in repainting all the cases and various covers as they took some beating from the elements
- I am thinking about Samco hoses as the OEM ones are looking bad
- I am thinking about 996 Rad (ally) as the standard is looking bad, but fittings are different
- I am also wondering if 999 wheels would fit and would look good? Anybody knows?
- Thinking of ohlins forks or changing the bottoms on the Showas as they are pitted. Nice billet radials exist but then would mean changing the calipers
- Thinking about a weight loss exercise, notably on fairing panels. Thinking of trying to make nice carbon ones myself and converting the stupid fairing rubber mounts to quick release. I have not found the time to work on this yet.
- Somebody Ducman I think does some nice billet rear sets. Tempting but quite like the comfort of the standard ones.
- I will invest in some better chain adjustment indicators from Desmotime some day
- I have changed the front speedle for a billet one from Cepeedee (ebay) nice stuff but ally bolt slightly too big. I would love to find a billet rear wheel spindle too as the current one looks well rusty.

I won't play with the engine on this bike. It is more than enough for what I do with her and fingers crossed, it has not eaten any rockers so far.

Cheers
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