Some of these posts and others i’ve Seen posted elsewhere are as quirky as the 1100s,it’s an oddball bike that needs an oddball approach when you have gotten your head around it’ll be fine and until you do it’s a struggle.
All this tosh about leaning this way and that

there’s no front end dive and you have to learn to feel the road through the tyre because the front end is dead and when you aquire that feel everything is good.
When the S came out in 98 the BM plan was to tempt the VfR lot over and if 100 folks rode both i’d Say 95 of e’m would go for the VFR it’s just a case of are you one of those 5