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On my half-hour test drive, I noticed that closing the throttle at low RPM's, then opening it again, caused a lurch. I read somewhere that the electronics are programmed to close the butterflies at 3000 RPM, when you close the throttle completely, then they snap back open when you get back on the throttle. This annoyed me in a couple of slow turns, but I could probably easily avoid it after some practice. Some people have talked about feeling a driveshaft lash, but my problem felt more like it was the butterflies.

Otherwise, I felt no roughness, stutter, surging, etc., at any RPM up to 6000 (and I went no faster, since the bike only had 100 miles on it). The tranny felt good to me, with no clunks that I noticed, and I never hit neutral when I wasn't aiming for it -- but I've ridden big tourers for the last several years, and I was using the clutch.