Had to be done as it's been on my mind a lot recently especially when I'm on track so I rode the SDR to the dealer and took the RC8 out.
Sitting on it the seat is much comfier, the pegs were less extreme than my blade or my vfr800 and the bars were about the same as the blade possibly a touch higher and they could stillgo an inch higher than that. On the move and I headed straight to a town centre and it's immediately obvious it fuels so much better than my SDR in fact it felt perfectly normal for a v twin. Onto a dual carriageway and cruising at 90mph is great, virtually no wind blast. Next test was wheelies and it excels here with masses of midrange , the engine doesn't have the top end kick of the SDR but it is much much stronger in the mid and it fires out of corners like no other bike I've ridden. Handling and braking are pretty much par for the course on a sportsbike. On the whole it is a less extreme bike than the SDR which when I jumped back on it felt like a rev hungry mx bike feeding it gears all the time.
In short I think it's the better bike for me so only time will tell if I swap or add it to the SDR which if I can find the funds is what I would do

ok if you live in a low insurance area mate....its what i wanted but i wasnt prepared to pay an extra 700 pounds on the insurance just for the priviledge so i compromised and got the sdr...

Mine is a track bike mate ad with the PC and custom map ad the full system it has bucket loads of mid range and is superb all the way through the rev range

Pretty too

Yesterday I went and sat on every litre bike and all of them felt small compared to the RC8, the zx10 was perhaps the smallest followed by the blade with the R1 the roomiest. The RC8 is so much bigger for me so it's still No.1 choice at the moment, power wise I'll be happy with 135hp as it won't hold me back at all