Hate to sound so negative but thats the cold truth... ill stick to my hpr 500 it does the trick for me at the current moment and its only a small reed im only about 3 10ths away from the 4 mill drag banshees and a 10th ahead of most of the 450 based bikes which is my biggest competiton. What was the plan for this bike when it was done? Drag, trail, mx??