I think you will find the 600's very user friendly. You have to be revving it out before it starts coming alive. Anything below about 5000 rpm is girly bike territory, every thing from 6-16k become turbo charged licence time.

The torque curve is very flat, so there are no real surprises. At lower rpms you can pretty much chop the throttle without anything bad happening, unless its pissing down with rain.

I have a short commute to work every day in all weather and go on the Ride North from time to time and been to Hamptons and the Gsxr performs perfectly in each case.

If you are only commuting, you could probably find a more comfortable scooter or something more sensible and economic, but if you like to take the long way home sometimes, nothing better than finishing a crap day of work having a sexy beast to put your leg over.

I like Katmans first comment though, you still need to respect a 600 cause it goes faster than you might think and your licences is only a twist of the wrist away from from being snipped in half.