Having rented one of those bikes, that was the limiting factor. Despite the bike being so high, the suspension was so comically soft that the centerstand would grind at what I consider to be tame lean angles on bumpy Australian back roads. Absence of bumps (relatively speaking) on the Nurburgring would help, and ditching the centerstand would certainly help. But it really needed about +50% on the spring rates at both ends.
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