ORIGINAL: waz57

If you get a chance to ride a blackbird be careful as you may just want to trade in your 1000 F, I rode any earlier version 03 model and thought yeah nice but it wasn't until I rode the 07 model and I thought yes now this is nice. The power weight is hard to get used to as well. My old 1000 still lifts the front wheel after 6 grand but the bird wants to go skyward all the time.
Yesterday my bird gave me a fright, a street which I normally pull out into traffic. On my old girl this is nothing out of the un ordinary BUT when I gave the bird a bit of stick I was sideways down the road for about 50 yards doing a big fishy !!! I didn't let off the power ( Was enjoying it too much ) and had plenty more but couldn't believe the power it has.