[Darren69]

The 916/748 has a very sweet front end even with standard Showa forks, it feels like it is on rails (some of that sweetness comes from the overall chassis package however and general balance of the bike as a whole and overall not without compromise to comfort) but I have yet to find a better handling bike, the monster one on the other hand is not so sweet. Some of that I think is down to the rear bias of the standard monster setup and can be dialed out but eventually the difference between the 851/888 dericed chassis of the monster has to take second place to the much improved 916/748 design. Whether changing just the forks would be an improvement or not I don't know.