Riding tight roads ought to be a two gear proposition, leaving you to concentrate on your lines. If you're experienced at riding V-twins on the street, you may have found yourself turning on the gas early when exiting corners to build momentum. This won't quite be the case with the RC as it produces enough horsepower that you'll need to be on top of things if you simply nail the throttle early exiting tighter corners. Laguna is a fast, power-robbing track. Allowing a stock motorcycle to be tested here is either ludicrous or a testimonial to a streetbike with exceptional power.
Acceleration is strong and extremely crisp given the bikes fuel injection.
The front end carries under hard acceleration and if you choose, it's easy to wheelie along the entire front straight. The bike even produces enough power to wheelie up the hill after turn five if you cheat and set up for it coming out of the turn. Learning the wet and slippery track proved mentally tough for the rider but the Honda proved tractable, stable and precise as you carefully picked your way around the track. The only noticeable glitch was when you lugged the engine down to nothing and then tried to roll the throttle on in slow corners. This would produce surging as the engine didn't like to be lugged this low.