I was taking Jason Pridmore's course last year - my very first time on a racetrack - and I showed up figuring I'd be the oldest (55 then) and slowest rider on the track. Wrong. First thing I notice is all the people with number plates on their crotch rockets, including an Aprilia, couple of Ducs, CBRs, R1s and R6s, SV 1000, but there were also an VFR800, couple of GS Beemers, Triumph ST, my ZRX-1100 and a 68 year old Geezer on a 650 V-strom. Now I wasn't fastest in our group some guy on a CBR600 was. And the second fastest was the old geezer on the V-strom. (Hah, I was third fastest!) Of course we were all still blown off by the instructors on SV-650s!
It ain't the tool.....