Well I picked my new bike up on wednesday morning and it's lovely. I am of course running it in at the moment so I'm very limited on the revs I'm allowed (a mere 5000). Even with the limitations I can tell you a few first impressions:
It's very pretty and looks mean and moody in black. The V-twin motor is a real suprise after the inline fours I trained on, it's noisey and "thumpy" where they whined but it does pull from low down in the rev range. The riding postion is more focused than I expected it to be, your feet are set high and quite far back and the clip-on grips are quite a low reach. I love the noise of the engine on over-run, it's a real deep burumbabrum. The under seat storage is laughably small, I had problems fitting my sandwiches under there! The mirrors are excellent... if you want to look at your elbows. Probably the strongest impression after 400 miles (yes I did 400 miles in two day) is that it's fun, really really fun.
In fact; buy one!
