Slow makes smooth so easy.
At my pace the suspension is so tight and refined feeling I hate to mess with it. It limits my speed in some conditions but nit terribly. My Tiger 800 has a slightly softer, longer travel suspension that is a million times more refined than the VFR. If the Tiger had more ground clearance it would run off an hide from the VFR on roads like the Dragon but the VFR motor gives it a much higher top speed and i suspect if the Tiger had the same top end hit the bike would start to misbehave.
I say the Tiger feels flat on top but when I got home after riding with Adam all day the GPS showed my top speed was 139. Must have been when I tried to draft Adam's Beemer on that downhill section of the Cherohala. Adam can attest to how well the Tiger handles on rough pavement as he had no fun following it on Joyce Kilmer.