speaking of a ride in the hills....my youngster talked me into taking his 05 rm 250 suzuki on my first trail ride,at 52 ,on a 75 km ,yep 75km ride through 4 farms in dargaville ,northland,through fast open farmland to 2 lengthy pine forest sections that were wet wet and wetter,with the bike with somebody like me on it basically trying to biff me off all day,i survived but when i walked in the door i went straight to the bandit and took its blanket off and told ot how wonderfull it was,i 'm still hobbling around after 4 days,so take it from me ,i think a bike like that and a rider like mr ,is a definate missmatch...slo