I should add that the new bike behaved impeccably; although this was after taking it back to the shop last week to rectify an alarm fault that was killing the engine at 10-11 thousand revs, and stopping off on the way up to Rockingham on Friday arvo to have a new, made to measure spring fitted onto the rear suspension. The original was waaaay to hard for a relatively light fella like myself. (Suspension expert Ralph at SBT in Sandy, Bedfordshire did the work; I would recommend SBT for any suspension needs). Only had one proper 'moment' on track; lost the back end by getting on the gas too hard/early when I was still cranked over coming out of a bend, but rolled off the throttle and it snapped back into line... fortunately... binning the bike would have been an absolute bugger.