It really wasnt bad, my main complaint was the grips, at 100 miles my hands were numb, at 200 my hands felt like they were being stung with a thousand needles, at 300 miles it felt like an ugly girl was sticking a thousand needles in my hands. By the time I got back home I was contemplating gnawing my hands off. The grips that it came with were hard as plastic and had fairly large box shapes in them. I replaced them with a nice set of sport touring gel grips right after I got home. it was also missing one bar end so that didnt help either.
The only time I had to really use the brakes was when a cop shot from the right shoulder to the left shoulder without warning and everybody in front of me slammed on their brakes, I slowed down enough to not hit anyone but it was pretty close, and I know that with my cbr I could have easily made the stop.
And the wandering handlebard did suck. It felt like they just started to wander left and right by themselfs, and any inputs from em just made it worse. The only thing that did stop it was me pressing forward on both sides and it caused the front wheel to straighten right up and hold steady.
Oh yeh and it definately doesnt handle like a sport bike, not even close. but I did manage to shoot down a few dirt roads at 40mph which the cbr could never do.
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