It might be the Tourings influence or just the Old and Wise attitude to riding my rocket ,the only time my R3 has and will ever see 65000 RPM was on the Dyno, if I wanted sports bike performance I could have gone the B king ,Busa,or Kawasaki H2 route ,I just let the torque run the bike up to speed, first gear to 4th very quickly then 5th anything over 90kph ,amongst my riding group nothing keeps with My Touring at top gear roll ons two up from 100kph to 140kph, that includes a Busa,Harleys(of coarse) and a Honda FB6, most of them jump away by changing down a couple of gears but not in top gear