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So as it transpired I almost bought a 2001 RSV Mille this weekend and I'm a little bit heartbroken I missed out on it...
I had no intention of buying a bike at the moment and then spotted the aforementioned on FB Marketplace only about fifteen minutes from my parents house. Advert had just been posted, it was a track bike and needed new fairings and lighting replaced but it was owned by the owner of a suspension tuning company so forks and shock had been rebuilt and it was mechanically in excellent condition. It also had the logbook so it wouldn't have been too big of a task to return it to a road bike but sadly someone beat me to it before I had a chance to get there...
The truly soul destroying bit... he sold it for €850 :(
Otherwise I spent some time on Saturday with a former colleague of mine who used to work in the bike trade and got deep into this discussion... he's previously owned a YZF750R and rides lots of RSV Milles and CBR954RRs and his vote was for the YZF750R!
It seems like there isn't a bad choice here to be honest and he did make the point that with a bit of patient and careful purchasing why not just buy all of them over the next few years, it'll still cost less than the price of any relatively new litre bike!
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I had an early Mille and it was impossibly quick on British roads. The acceleration is very much arms out of sockets. Lovely engine tho. It was a very practical and comfy distance bike. Good seat and fairing and big tank. I went to Germany with a bunch of people on BMW tourers. We all refuelled at the same time. I would go last so I could have an excuse to blitz past them.