I've now set the front suspension setting's back to standard Honda setting's with a couple of small changes which are listed below.

Front
Preload: 3 Lines showing
Compression: 1 full turn out from max.
Rebound: 1 full turn out from max.
Fork Height 10mm further up through the yokes.
Fork oil changed to Õhlins 5 weight (std 10w) oil with a 114mm air gap, after advice from an Õhlin's technician.
Tyre Pressure 36 psi (std)

Rear
Standard Ohlins setting's out of the box. + 2mm of extra ride height.
Tyre Pressure 42 psi (std)
(full report on these, can be found on the Product Reviews Page 2)

France 2003.
Le Grande Hoonabout May 2003.

If you do one thing.......in your life. You have to go to the South of France on a biking 'JOLLY' with a few mates.

Having just come back from there after spending what can only be described as a totally brilliant week hooning around some of the best biking roads known to man, I can highly recommend, no in fact I insist,, You MUST go there, you too will fall in love with France, and being a bit of a Francofile it wasn't that hard to do to be honest.

These roads are quite simply stunning, with thousand meter shear drop's, rolling hill's
and valley's and twisty double back hairpin's. These roads are used by the bike magazines to test their bikes as anyone who's seen the Fast Bikes video's will know.....

The Col de Tende (E204/N74) and surrounding roads around Sospel and Menton. The D558 Le Garde Freinet, also the coast road between Cannes and St Tropez, and the N98 which goes towards Toulon, from St Tropez where we stayed in an extremely motorcycle welcoming and cheap (for the S of F) hotel Le Tour Blanche, something you wouldn't get if 4 or 5 of you turned up on bikes in the UK, I doubt.

It's the first time I've been to France on a bike, only having been there a few times for work before a few years ago, and found the French people to be very welcoming towards motorcycles, moving over on motorways to let you blast past, waiting to pull out not just slapping on an indicator and pulling into your path as so often happens by myopic car driver's in the U.K.

French biker's are also very friendly sticking out a leg in greeting as they blast past at well into three figures most of the time. One in particular who we had a bit of a blast with on a Suzuki GSX 1400, who warned us of impending Police activity, before blatting off again at warp speed, with us loon's in hot pursuit, Oh yes highly enjoyable.