I did - but told me all about why he was keeping the 640 Adv and what the 'issues' were with the 690 version
Also I was considering Lee's 690 ...,but went for a 500 instead as it was more potential to do both jobs better (short local work and longer type TET stuff)
Tims' Spain bike is a 13' plate 690 with 20k miles on and no problems, he liked it so much that he bought 2 .
I'll see how I get on with having the forks re-valved/shimmed later in the year and take it from there, will also see how the Bulgaria shipping stuff works out next week and maybe consider using them to access some interesting Balkans TET.
It's all good