Gen 1 Handling

[nick crisp]

I must've pushed the bike nearer to it's limits (certainly to my limits) on Sunday, more than I've ever done with one of these before, on some of the most challenging roads for  the longest single day's fast riding. Since I bought this one, all I've done to the chassis is adjust the fork preload (? blue centre) so that they match on both sides - for some reason they were way different when I got the bike. Now both 2 rings showing. And I was really surprised that I managed to induce no wobbles, wallows or other misbehaviour at all. As far as I can see visually, everything is standard, but I don't remember the handling being this good on any of my previous 3 thous, not even after I had a brand new Hagon shock fitted on the last one (although I did notice a big improvement with that - the original shock had had it!). I suppose that (apart from how I found the preload set) it could be just more dialled in to suit me and my riding than my previous ones.
So if I was to fit R1 front forks and an R6 rear shock, would I really notice the difference that much?