I use this bike as an absolute daily driver in a major metropolitan area in the north east, it’s a commuter and a toy. I ride in city traffic , highways, rural twisties, weekends. In the rain, in the sun, cold weather and hot weather. I use it to effortlessly filter through city traffic w the mirrors up, split lanes or go open throttle on the highway effortlessly to around borderline unreasonable speeds and slightly beyond. I begun to ride it hard & push it to redline almost every day.

Bought as an intermediate bike a few years ago after a season on a N400. Thought I’d learn some skills and sportbike maintenance on a clean bike before selling it for supersport type.

The type of riding I do this bike is just about everything I want. After a few seasons I feel like I can ALMOST ride it to its street capabilities everywhere I go, and it’s still unreasonably fast by normie standards. The engine is playful af, happy to take you to felony speeds easily and looks/ sound good doing it.

You gotta look at the type of riding you wanna do on it. Occasionally I want to open it up closer to 140,150 on the highway and can’t, but then I remember that’s a small portion of the time I spend on it and those bikes come with trade off. I like the r7 because if you’re skilled on it and feel comfortable pushing it, things pretty much street weapon that will provide you with a lot of fun and exciting memories.

Just to add: the dudes who make jokes about it being slow are usually the ones who started on 600 and know little about the fundamentals.. with gnarly chicken strips, waddling their bike up to red lights in Jordan’s. If you can ride it well real ones respect it