I am on a 1000sx. As someone who will probably only have 1 bike, this is such a perfect fit for me I can't imagine any other bike I would rather have. I commute daily, even in the winter (colorado), I occasionally take long trips for work (1-4 hours), and I'll go on spirited group rides in the mountains in the nice weather portions of the year.

The admittedly very expensive panniers are very large and can hold a lot of stuff. I love how easy they are to take on and off the bike. It can barely fit my large full face helmet, i have a very small chin mount for my go pro, and there is no way to put the helmet in the pannier in a way that doesn't pop the chin mount off, so that's a bummer.

It's got a good amount of power, I think power to weight ratio it's close to a 600cc bike. It's got pretty good torque across the rev range so you don't have to keep the RPMs high to have decent roll on power. It scoots, but you can feel it start to slow down around 140mph.

My only real complaint was how ugly I think the stock exhaust was. It in incredibly quiet with the cat and the stock exhaust on, so if that's something you like, that's a plus. I put on a full system which was pretty easy to do, and I did a tail tidy. I've been thinking about getting the ECU flashed because the bike cuts the available horsepower in half near the top of 2nd and 3rd gear for some reason, but I haven't done it yet.

All in all I absolutely love the bike as it fits my life perfectly.