I never took mine to the track, but I will tell you this, I was on the road playing around, you know one of those afternoons when the sun was on the decline and the air just whispered to ya " time to ride" and I got on a slight uphill winding out in second , and I mean I was moving. popped in 3rd and the front end came off the ground about a foot, first time I had ever done that and once the urine finished running down my leg I just let it have its head and stayed like that all the way up the hill.. My wife and I would load it up with all our camping gear for a week and head into New England, what a smooth powerfull ride. It was like I was riding solo, had so much torque . We once were on the Kangamangas Highway in New Hampshire and I looked in my mirror and saw a nasty thunder boomer right on my ass. Twenty some miles to town on a big sweeping curve highway, no traffic beautiful mountains. I looked at my wife and said we can stop and put the rain suits on or we can crank Zuki up and make a run for it She Just Smiled and said we're still here 8) Never forget that ride or that gs 1100