There are two ways of looking at it really. Either the OP is massaging his ego or demonstrating his appreciation of the remarkable handling abilities of a bike of this size and mass. When I read the thread I assumed the latter.
It is true that it's very foolish to chase your tyre strips rather than ride the road (I've had that conversation with youngsters many times) and that if your road craft and riding technique is proficient the strips will take care of themselves. I'm a bricklayer by trade and novices and intermediates in that business are often similarly obsessed with speed, but the same rule applies: don't look to lay fast. Look to lay well and the speed will come by itself.
I imagine there's very few of us on this forum under 40, so I'm guessing most of us have been on that journey with our bike riding long ago.
I have a Ducati supernaked and a KTM adventure bike. Neither have any strips at all (I don't like the term "chicken" since it implies that fast cornering is only a matter of nerve, a misconception held by novices often with catastrophic results) and I wouldn't expect them to. Both are essentially sports bikes, albeit one of them on stilts, and they are designed to encourage and facilitate fast riding.
Non-Rocketeers, and the biking press to be fair, generally assume that the R3 is a fat, lazy Harley-esque grunt monster intended only for straight-line thrust. We know it's much more than that. The two questions I'm most commonly asked about mine is how do you hang on to it (the same way as you do any other bike) and how does it go round corners (ditto, with the proviso that it turns faster, flatter and smoother if you stay on the power).
@acim 's pics demonstrate this.
