Some people have high maintenance wives or girlfriends (some have both!
)... I have a fussy, high maintenance, "my motor is too hot rodded to be streetable" kind of a bike. I'm seriously going to try 105 octane race gas and see is she likes that. It still stalls at idle, even though Jeff has jacked the idle up to 1,800+ rpm! Heck I rev it up to 2,000+ rpm using the throttle at intersections so it won't unexpectedly die on me. And with 110 decibel race Termis you can imagine the loud bump-a-thump rap music I can drown out at stop lights from pimpmobiles!
It will not hold a steady rpm at cruising speed, say 45mph down the street, without the motor bucking, spitting and surging. The ONLY time she's happy is when your stretching the throttle cable tight and rowing through the gears. Sounds like fun? It's not at least on the street. You end up gassing it up then coasting, gassing it up then coasting down the street to maintain a steady "no ticket" speed and avoiding the buck/spit/surge. All the "Daytona" motor work was revealed to me after I bought the bike, then I broke my neck so I didn't really know how it ran until late last year. I swear I would love to pull the stock 13,000 mile motor out of the 996S and put it in the 916SPS. At least the clutch is good, the new 1098 stock dry clutch works great. One hassle down, one more to go! It's a work in progress. As Billy Crystal used to say on the old Saturday Night Live "It's better to look good than feel good baby!" And the 916 looks killer!