Did a 300km ride through what used to be an awesome road yesterday. Turns out that the road for the most part is rutted, pot holed and just outright terrible if you're on board an FZ8. I was riding with several other seasoned riders on varying types of super sports, nakeds and sport tourers... All of which handled the conditions better than my FZ8 with r1 front forks and FZ1 rear. I had several "moments" during the day and swapped bikes with a few guys who agreed the ride was awesome on the smooth stuff but dangerous when the road surface got wild. Tried tweaking the setup but couldn't find a happy place.
I'm seriously considering trading the bike in.... If I can't push a little on my local twisty's, there seems to be no logical reason to spend more money trying to fix the problem.
Admitidly I'm no super skilled rider and that may be part of my problem but the bike didn't seem up to the task yesterday at all, regardless of who was on it.