I remember those days when I was on my 125 and "keeping up" with the guys on litre bikes and 600s when in reality they must have been very bored, but it is a rite of passage i guess.
But then again to me now a 600 feels like a 125 after jumping from the busa to my old mans thundercat I was wringing its neck wondering if it was broken but it was really giving all it had but still felt slow