It was definitely a little heavy but it carried it's weight very well. Probably the biggest issue for me was that the bike, even though it was totally reliable in the time that I owned it, they don't have a very large expanse of dealers for work on one that I wouldn't feel comfortable doing myself. And honestly, I just don't feel that the level of quality is equal to the Hondas, Yamaha, etc. I wanted an FZ8 a couple of years ago, before I bought the Aprilia, but they didn't have adjustable suspension on them at that time. So when the 2013 FZ8's came out, I was set to buy one. Then, like two days before I was going to buy it, Yamaha announced the FZ 09 and totally made me not want an FZ8 anymore.