[Darren69]

My advice would be test ride a 696/796 and then for comparison an 1100 or 1000ie or S4 bike and see which floats your boat as they are completely different animals. The smaller bikes are good all rounders and happy to commute and potter around town on. The big >900 twins are something else, they don't like pottering around town so much and crave the open road, where all that torque makes them so much fun to ride!