Hey Blaze save yourself the trouble of going through all those different bikes now, just get out there and find ya self a decent 500 now. While they are still in reasonable nick. Also cheap over there. The price is starting to creep up here now for the goodies. They are nothing to be scared of at all, in fact if you want to become a better rider faster, I can recomend that this is the bike for you. Power valves are a wonderfull thing on these bikes. You can just putt round in the tight forestry stuff or give the message out in the river bed if you want. DIVERSE is the key word here. Totall all round good bike for any one. Agree guys??