Okay so fng here, I've only had my space shuttle for a month or so. I've been busy disregarding and unraveling khi's exhaustive engineering (other thread - Muzzys system, PCV, ZX throttle bodies, nitrous) and commuting to work on the bike, but other than a couple of highway pulls I'd not ridden the bike in anger before this weekend.
Short version... I'm an ex-roadracer and maybe hang it out there a little farther than most when it comes to wheeled things. I decided to join the boys on their sportbike ride up to mountains this weekend and was curious to see how big piggy did in the right stuff. I'm very impressed. It took a little while, a tire pressure adjustment and an increase in rebound damping to learn to trust it, but god o'mighty this big bastard hauls all kinds of ass when you ask it to. And I do mean ask... on rock hard sport touring tires it takes deliberate, appropriately forceful but sometimes very light inputs to get 'er to dance. Won't be setting any cornerspeed records on this thing and it'll wear your legs out thru the transitions, but it's surprisingly good under braking (track-out sbk-style slides in no problem), takes a set well and is hilarious on exit. That motor. That pull. I'm not quite comfy rolling big powerslide corner exits on it yet but I think it's achievable.
At any rate, I left those sportbike guys for dead.. WITH the bags on. And then adjusted my windshield up, stuck it in 6th and digested the hour of boring straight roads home like a dude sitting in a lounger. I love this bike.