Ok so the wife just said, on her birthday no less, that she is Ok with me getting a new bike this fall. First YEAH! I have been bike-less for several years, we have a little one that took precedence so I had to sell my old bike to help out. So I am all but sold on the XMR 1000 but there is one small hang-up that I would like to ask those of you that have had these bikes for a while and that is we have one guy in our group that has a pretty quick BF 750 and he constanly brags about being the fastest one around and I want to be able to drive right by him like he was standing still but I still have some really nasty peat bog areas that he cannot access that I want to be able to. I like what the XMR 1000 has to offer but my question is simple, can I make this bike fast or do I need to go with the XTP Max 1000 and turn it into an XMR clone so to speak?