Well, that's going to bust up a few teenage bush parties I guess, sort of. A 1000cc bike is still going to be a handful off-road though. Also, even at 1000cc (I would have opted for 600cc) the outlaw sport bikers will run away from it on the highway. But yeah, more nimble on the gravel roads. Seems that most times police do an experiment like this, they end up going back to Harley Davidsons after a few years. You just can't beat the big vibrating sofa.
I put over 200,000 km on my 2006 V-Strom 650, 139,000+Km on my second generation 2012 V-Strom 650, and a bit over 79,000 km on my 2015 V-Strom 1000. The new generation V-Strom 1000 (2014+) is pretty much just as nimble as my 650's were.
..Tom