Hi Sean, I reckon you've picked a pretty good all round bike to start with. I've had a number of bikes over the years but after buying a 954 in 2002 realised it ticked most of the right boxes for me - even as standard - and decided, via our company, to try to create the very best all-round bike we could (i.e. both a good long-distance tourer and also on-the-money track bike). Five years later our bike has 40 or so mods (some cheap, some more costly) to make it both practical and also perform better too. We were really pleased that, after testing it recently, Al Fagan of Fast Bikes UK magazine said it was arguably the best FireBlade he'd ever ridden. If you want to get any ideas from our bike please take a look at it here - and you can download the Fast Bikes magazine article in pdf too. Cheers, Giles.
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