As far as weight goes, the R1 is pretty light (about 175kg), not much more than a 650 KLR, and this one is probably lighter than the original machine, so it should be tossable. I remember seeing pictures years ago of Kenny Roberts sliding a VMax around a dirt oval with the Yamaha high muck-a-mucks watching.

To me, the bike looks great, but I hope someone will thrash it about and scuff it up a little. I always thought my motocross bikes looked better after twenty motos than they did when still in the showroom. A few dents, scratches, knobby tracks on the swingarm, the paint scuffed down to bare metal in places, pop rivets holding plastic together… those things told the history of the bike, and me too I guess.