I can certainly understand the difficulty y'all have in doing tests of bikes that aren't yet available, but I continue to be surprised that you've never, to my knowledge, written about the standard Duke. I just bought a '02 Duke II, and I owned a used '95 for a couple of years, (traded it and a CBR929 in on my Aprilia RSVR), and I think a lot of MO readers would be interested. I know I'm biased, but I sure get a lot of questions from other riders when I'm out on mine.