Thanks. I will be going to the NATC event in VT mid-July for a day. I hope to learn a lot there and talk to as many people as possible. Not sure if anyone will be having demos or not, but that would be nice. I assume the bikes used by higher level competitors may be well maintained, but as you say also subjected to more. Some of the crash videos I've been watching lately will make me wonder what the bike I end up with went through.
It's not everyday I flip my 450 off a cliff and into boulders. Not that I've never done it.
