250-500cc WR 300 vs. KTM 300XCW

I'm certainly not the greatest rider in the world, but I want my bike to be the best handling bike in the world....so I picked the WR. I had a chance to ride a 2012 XCW 300, and I found it to be have very smooth power, but even though the bike is supposed to be lighter than the WR, I found it to feel heavier and less responsive in the turns, and not really any more stable tracking on the straights. Yes, I wish that the clutch 0n the WR worked a little better and wasn't prone to dragging (I bought a better clutch cable to reduce that problem) and the e button is a nice thing to have, but neither of those missing features were enough to deter me from buying a machine that fit my riding style and needs so well. You can't buy confidence, but buying the WR was the closest I could get to that. And oh yeah...I love the powerband on the WR.