The lengthened swinging arm helped considerably, the bike was less twitchy over bumps and the wheelies over the mountain at Cadwell were far more controllable, when I say it's not relaxing to ride I mean It's no longer the softly sprung gently powered moderately braked commuter bike that was the RS250. Now It's a firmly sprung, torquey (32 ftlbs) 40 bhp fun bike with tremendous brakes but still weighing only 125kg, so rather than go out for a gentle Sunday afternoon cruise you find yourself behaving like a hooligan and trying to pull wheelies everywhere and reveling in the torque wave, the other day I found myself pulling 90 and still accelerating (on a private road obviously) I've considered selling it a few times but every time I open the garage door and look at it I just cant bring myself to part with it.