I took delivery of an ABS Concours 14 the day before yesterday. Coming off both a Hayabusa and an 03 FJR1300, I can say that it is a better bike than either. Not as fast as the busa, but way faster than the FJR. Outhandles either of them. The brakes are ferocious. Wind management is much better than the FJR, and more comfortable to boot. If you duck down behind the shield in its highest position, everything goes dead calm like on the 'busa. Very llittle buffetiing with the shield in the lowest position. Seat height is functionally higher than the specs suggest, because the wide, very comfortable seat is harder to straddle at a stop than the relatively narrow seat on the FJR. I did the hard load break in, (2nd 3rd and 4th gear full throttle runs from 20 to 65 ,about 10 runs each) and it came up in 2nd every time without clutching or exceeding 5000 of the 10500 redline.
Wonderful bike.
